Support and guidance
Helpful details for patients, their families, and visitors about care, support, and what to expect during your visit.
Frequently used support
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Diet and Exercise in Menopause – Webinar Session 2
This is the second of Here for You’s menopause webinars and focuses on the importance of diet and nutrition in menopause.
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Mindful Way through Menopause – Webinar Session 3
This is the third webinar in the series on Menopause. In this webinar we look at strategies to help manage symptoms of menopause.
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Webinar – Let’s talk about how to manage difficult and traumatic events. Session 1
A self‑help webinar introducing practical ways to understand and manage difficult or traumatic events.
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Here For You – Menopause an introduction
Webinar focusing on what organisations can do, sharing their own experience and talking about HRT.
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Let’s talk about how to manage difficult and traumatic events – Session 4 Webinar
Session 4 of the self‑help webinar offering guidance on understanding and managing difficult or traumatic events. Providing practical tools to support emotional wellbeing and recovery.
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Let’s talk about how to manage difficult and traumatic events – Webinar Session 2
A self‑help webinar offering guidance on understanding and managing difficult or traumatic events. Providing practical tools to support emotional wellbeing and recovery.
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Bereavement support
Losing someone you love is never easy. We can guide you to helpful resources and support groups to help you through this difficult time.
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How we measure mental health outcomes in Personality Disorder & Complex Needs services
Our Psychotherapy, PDCN Team, and TIPS services support people with complex mental health needs. We regularly ask how people are feeling and coping to understand what’s working well and where we can improve.
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Perinatal mental health information and wellbeing for dads, biological and non-biological
Information and guidance on perinatal mental health and wellbeing for dads. Support, resources and advice to help you cope.
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How are you peeling? Need to talk to someone?
Talking about mental health isn’t always easy, but you don’t have to do it alone. We provide community health, mental health, and learning disability services across Essex and beyond. As part of this, we offer NHS Talking Therapies – free, confidential support to help people look after their mental wellbeing. No GP referral needed!
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Therapy for You (NHS Talking Therapies)
Free and flexible access to therapies for people experiencing common everyday problems including depression, anxiety, PTSD.
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Access to health records
Use our free, secure online portal to access your health records.
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Personality Disorder and Complex Needs Service User Network (SUN)
The network is for people who have been diagnosed with a Personality Disorder or similar emotional difficulties.
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DAFNE Diabetes: Helping you manage type 1 diabetes
The DAFNE (Dose Adjustment for normal eating) education programme can help you live well with diabetes.
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EPUT Diabetes self management education and support (DSMES) programme 2026
Programme of education for people living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes for 2026. Please email [email protected] to book – there is limited availability for the sessions so please book early.
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Recovering Quality of Life (ReQol)
ReQoL is a Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) which has been developed to assess the quality of life for people with different mental health conditions through a questionnaire.
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Patients Know Best
Patients Know Best (PKB) is our online patient portal being gradually introduced to give you access to some of the information we hold in our IT systems. Information from PKB also feeds into the NHS App, making it easy for you to view your health information online, at any time.
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Trauma buddy
Trauma Buddy’s aim is to help staff and patients built a therapeutic relationship faster and reduce the risk of further trauma while patients are on our psychiatric and physically focused wards.
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My Care Record
My Care Record enables health and social care professionals to securely access information when caring for you.
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