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An A-Z list of useful websites of organisations and charities that work to support good health in Suffolk.
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- Access Unlimited
- Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Active wellbeing – OneLife Suffolk
- Age UK Suffolk
- Alzheimer’s Society (UK-wide)
- Anglia Cancer Network
- Asthma UK
- Autism Suffolk
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- Babergh District Council
- The Befriending Scheme
- Bereavement (for survivors of the bereaved by suicide)
- Bereavement care
- Brain Tumour Charity
- Breastfeeding: Made for your baby
- British Heart Foundation
- British Lung Foundation
- Bury St Edmunds Volunteer Centre
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- Cancer Research UK
- Cancer Support Groups around West Suffolk
- CARA-SNAP -Central Access and Referral Agency for Suffolk (Do you know someone who may be struggling with living independently in their accommodation?)
- CGL (social care and health charity that supports adults, young people and families whose lives are affected by substance misuse, homelessness, poverty, unemployment, domestic abuse, mental health issues and offending)
- Child Bereavement UK
- Childline
- Children with additional needs and disabilities
- Chlamydia screening
- Citizens Advice Suffolk West (CAB)
- Community Action Suffolk (offers help and support services to voluntary and community groups in Suffolk)
- Coeliac UK
- Connect (improving and simplifying services by bringing professionals and communities together as Integrated Neighbourhood Teams)
- Contraception services
- Crohn’s and Colitis UK
- CRUSE (bereavement support)
- CUP (Cancer of the Unknown Primary)
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- Dementia Together Suffolk
- Dyspraxia in Children (Suffolk)
- Department of Health
- Diabetes (Suffolk)
- Diabetes (UK)
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- Falls prevention
- Family Lives (providing help and support in all aspects of family life)
- FFLAG (Families and friends of Lesbians and Gays)
- Focus12 (an independent charity (Reg.No.1077906) providing drug and alcohol rehabilitation through both residential and day-care facilities)
- Forest Heath District Council
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- Havebury Housing (Willow Support Service)
- Headway Suffolk (the charity that supports people with an acquired brain injury and those who care for them)
- Heart (British Heart Foundation
- Healthwatch Suffolk (patient spotlight on local health and social care services)
- Healthwatch UK (patient spotlight on UK health and social care services)
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- Icanho (provides a specialised rehabilitation service for adults with acquired brain injury and strokes)
- Injured Jockey Fund
- Ipswich Borough Council
- Ipswich Hospital – Palliative Care Team
- Ipswich & Suffolk Bangladesh Support Centre
- Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality
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- Lofty Heights (Loft clearing in preparation for insulation. Family carers project provides subsidised rates)
- Loneliness – The Befriending Service, covering west Suffolk area
- Low Mood
- Lupus UK
- Lymphoedema Support Network
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- Macmillan Cancer Support
- The Matthew Project (working in innovative ways with adults, young people and communities affected by drugs and alcohol)
- ME Association (providing information, support and practical advice for people, families and carers affected by M.E. (Myalgic Encephalopathy), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS)
- Mencap
- Menopause Self Help
- Mental Health Services for Children and Young People in Suffolk
- Mental health and wellbeing information service (New Chapters – Suffolk Libraries)
- Mermaids UK (support group for gender variant children and teenagers, and their families)
- Mid Suffolk District Council
- MIND Suffolk Mind (working to improve the mental health of people across the region)
- MIND Mental Health a-z
- MIND: The Qur’an & Emotional Health Booklet
- Miscarriage Association
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- National Carers week
- National Childbirth Trust (information and support in pregnancy, birth and early parenthood)
- National Osteoporosis Society
- National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
- NHS 111 number
- NHS Choices
- NHS Choices Health A-Z – Conditions and treatments
- NHS Choices Tools: Self assessments
- NHS Commissioning Board
- NHS England
- NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
- Nicky’s Way (bereavement support for children and young people)
- Norcas 65 Service information sheet
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- ONE Haverhill Partnership (an independent board that is bringing organisations and resources together to make them more effective and efficient in the town – providing ONE voice for Haverhill)
- OneLife Suffolk (Free programmes to help local people live healthier lives including weight loss, stop smoking and active wellbeing.
- OpenRoad (provides support for individuals affected by drugs and alcohol across Suffolk)
- Optua (to enable and empower people to be their best, whatever their disability)
- Ormiston Children and Families Trust (support to children and families affected by imprisonment, and work with families from Gypsy and Traveller Communities in East Anglia)
- Osteoporosis
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- Pain toolkit (handy tips and skills to support pain management)
- Palliative care
- Parenting hub (Suffolk County Council)
- Parkinson
- POhWER (provide information, advice, support and advocacy to people who experience disability, vulnerability, distress and social exclusion)
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- Racing Welfare
- Royal British Legion (Suffolk Branch)
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- Samaritans
- Samaritans (Bury St. Edmunds and west Suffolk branch)
- Sensing Change (The Suffolk County Council Sensory services team called “Sensing Change” who provide specialist assessments, rehabilitation and social work for people who have a visual and or hearing impairments throughout the whole of Suffolk. They also have their own Specialist Support Work Service.
- Sexual health (NHS Choices)
- Sexual health (FPA)
- Sexual health & pregnancy
- Sexual health services (in Suffolk)
- Sexual health services (ICASH)
- Scope (supporting disabled people and their families through practical information and support, particularly at the time of diagnosis and in a child’s early years)
- Sleep
- Sleep – snoring and sleep apnoea
- Smoking cessation OneLife Suffolk
- SNAP-CARA – Central Access and Referral Agency (CARA) for Suffolk (Do you know someone who may be struggling with living independently in their accommodation?)
- Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association
- Southgate Group
- SOBS (Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide)
- Stepping Out in Suffolk (Health Walks) OneLife Suffolk
- Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society
- St Edmundsbury Borough Council
- St Elizabeth Hospice
- St Nicholas Hospice
- Stroke Association
- Sudbury Area Cancer Support Group (Facebook page)
- Sudbury Healthcare Centre
- Suffolk Armed Forces Community Covenant (Local Veterans Breakfast Clubs)
- Suffolk County Council – Public Health
- Suffolk Alcohol Treatment Service (SATS)
- Suffolk Chlamydia Screening
- Suffolk Coastal District Council
- Suffolk County Council
- Suffolk Cruse – Bereavement Care
- Suffolk Deaf Association
- Suffolk Family Carers (supporting Family Carers of all ages with information, advice and guidance)
- Suffolk LGBT Network
- Suffolk Mind
- Suffolk Sight
- Suffolk Users Forum (a forum of mental health and wellbeing service users)
- Suffolk Warm Homes Suffolk County Council
- Survivors in Transition (support for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse)
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- Teenage Health
- Terence Higgins Trust (THT) (HIV and sexual health charity)
- Translation and Interpreting Services in the Community
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- VoiceAbility (easy-to-access and professional advocacy support that strengthens voice, champions rights and changes lives for some of the most vulnerable adults living in our area)
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- Waveney District Council
- WAY Widowed and Young
- Weight loss programmes for adults – OneLife Suffolk
- Weight loss programmes for children – OneLife Suffolk
- Wellbeing service (offers a range of support to help you make changes in your life to improve your wellbeing and help you cope with stresses, anxiety and depression)
- West Suffolk Cruse (the local branch of Cruse Bereavement Care covering west Suffolk)
- West Suffolk Disability Resource Centre
- West Suffolk Hospital Palliative Care
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust- Chaplaincy
- West Suffolk partnership
- Willow Support Services ( Haverbury – Provide help and support for independent living)
- Winston’s Wish (practical support and guidance to families, professionals and anyone concerned about a grieving child)
- Women’s Aid
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- Youth Access (young people’s information, advice and counselling service)
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