You don’t need to go through your GP to get help with everything. These local services are free and open to anyone.
Whether you want to stop smoking, move more, feel better, or get support as a carer, you can contact these organisations directly. Each one is trusted, easy to access, and designed to help you take small steps towards better health and wellbeing.
Refer Yourself
Smoke-Free Lancashire
Support to quit smoking, available face-to-face across Lancashire. Advisors can meet you in community settings or at evening and weekend clinics. They also offer the My Quit Route app to help you set goals, manage cravings, and build confidence.
Visit Smoke-Free Lancashire
Up and Active – Pendle Leisure Trust
Free 12-week physical activity programmes for people with long-term conditions, including supervised gym sessions, strength and balance classes, emotional wellbeing support, and specialist cardiac rehabilitation. Also offers the Eat Well, Keep Well programme for healthy weight and nutrition.
Visit Up and Active
Talking Therapies – Lancashire & South Cumbria
Free NHS support for anxiety, low mood, stress and sleep issues. Includes online tools, guided self-help and one-to-one therapy. You can refer yourself directly.
Visit Talking Therapies
Age UK Lancashire
Practical and emotional support for older adults. Services include help with benefits, staying active, independent living, social groups, and advice on care.
Visit Age UK Lancashire
Carers Link Lancashire
Support for unpaid carers of all ages. Includes advice, emotional support, events, peer groups, and practical help. You can register online or contact the team for support directly.
Visit Carers Link Lancashire
Social Prescribing
Link Workers help you access non-medical support in the community. They listen to what matters to you and connect you to services like local groups, housing advice, exercise classes, or help with money and wellbeing.
Self Refer using the Joy service – Joy – The right support is just a few clicks away – The Joy Self referral link is NOT for children and young people
Health and Wellbeing Coach
A health and wellbeing coach can support you to improve how you manage your physical and mental health. They work with you through a series of sessions to help achieve your personalised health and care plan goals, offering support and advice about diet and lifestyle.
Self Refer using the Joy service – Joy – The right support is just a few clicks away
Specialist Services We Work With
We work closely with a range of specialist NHS and community services to support people with more complex or ongoing needs.
These aren’t services you refer yourself to, but your GP or one of our team members can connect you to them if it’s right for you. From memory clinics to employment support and mental health services for children, these organisations help us make sure you get the right care in the right place.
Memory Assessment Service
If you or someone close to you is concerned about memory problems, this service provides a full assessment to help understand what might be going on.
The team includes doctors, nurses, psychologists, and occupational therapists, and can support people of any age. If needed, they’ll work with you to provide a timely diagnosis and develop a personalised care plan, including support for people with dementia.
📍 Local base: Gannow Lane Resource Centre, Burnley
📞 01282 657 832
More about Memory Assessment Services
ELCAS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health
East Lancashire Child and Adolescent Service (ELCAS) supports children and young people up to age 18 who are experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.
The team includes psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, and school-based practitioners who work with families, schools, and other services. Support is tailored to each young person’s needs and may include counselling, therapy, or more intensive mental health care.
📍 Based at Burnley General Hospital
📞 01282 628 800
✉️ elcas.referrals@lscft.nhs.uk
More about ELCAS
Parkinson’s Nurse – East Lancashire
This service supports people diagnosed with Parkinson’s, Multiple System Atrophy, or Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
Specialist nurses offer expert advice, medication support, care planning, and home visits if needed. The service helps reduce hospital admissions and avoid unnecessary GP appointments, and is available at any point following diagnosis.
📍 Clinic, care home and home visit options available
📞 01282 222 688
✉️ parkinson.comnurse@nhs.net
Visit Parkinson’s Service
Inspire – Drug and Alcohol Recovery
Inspire offers free, confidential support for adults who want to reduce or stop using drugs or alcohol.
Support includes one-to-one counselling, group programmes, detox referrals, harm reduction, and community-based recovery options. The service is designed around your goals, whether that’s cutting down or stopping altogether.
IPS – Individual Placement and Support
IPS helps people living with severe mental health conditions to find and stay in employment.
You’ll work one-to-one with an employment specialist who can help you explore career options, apply for jobs, and stay supported while you work. The service works closely with local mental health teams and is available to anyone aged 16+.
📍 The Place, 1 Clifton Street, Blackpool, FY1 1JD
📞 01253 477 300
✉️ ipsservice@blackpool.gov.uk
Visit IPS Employment Support
Useful Links
NHS 111
Health information and advice 24/7. Also available in a number of other languages. Links in to the Out of Hours service when necessary.
Patient.co.uk
Source of information leaflets as used by GP’s during consultations on most medical conditions. Also links to other resources such as contacts for patient support groups.
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
Quality and Outcomes Framework
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary annual reward and incentive programme for all GP surgeries in England, detailing practice achievement results. It is not about performance management but resourcing and then rewarding good practice.
Healthy Young Minds Links:
https://www.healthyyoungmindslsc.co.uk/information/family-and-carers
https://www.healthyyoungmindslsc.co.uk/information/professionals
Dementia Links:
alzheimers.org.uk
dementia.org
Carers Links:
carerslinklancashire.co.uk
carersuk.org
Veterans Links:
veteransgateway.org.uk
walkingwiththewounded.org.uk
gov.uk
combatstress.org.uk
blesma.org
Talking Saves Lives
18 people die by suicide every day in England and Wales, but help is out there.
There’s always someone to listen.
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