Mental health Support
Mini and Eira are our Mental Health Practitioners. They have a wealth of experience from working with AWP. They can be contacted via the surgery for appointments and advice. If you ask to speak to the duty Mental health Practitioner, you will get a call back from one of them on the same day.
https://www.awp.nhs.uk/
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) provides healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism in inpatient and community-based settings. We service a population of around 1.8 million across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.
Our aim is to be recognised as outstanding AWP, provider of specialised mental health and learning disabilities services. We are committed to providing outstanding care, through our outstanding people, ensuring our services are sustainable and delivered in partnership. Outstanding care is our first priority to ensure our service users receive the best possible treatment.
We are proud of the comprehensive range of services we offer and the compassionate care our staff provide. We remain committed to working in partnership with service users, carers, healthcare system partners, other healthcare providers, the police, criminal justice system, local authorities and a wide range of voluntary sector organisations to ensure we can be responsive to individual needs.
If you need help right now, call AWP’s 24-hour urgent response line free on 0800 953 1919.
For someone to talk to, you can also contact The Samaritans for free on 116 123. The Samaritans offers 24-hour telephone emotional support and befriending in complete confidence.