Signposting

The Community Pharmacy England website includes details for the Signposting Essential Service and can be accessed here.

There are lots of useful sources of information when consulting with patients and signposting them for further advice. Signposting can occur following a question on self-care, dispensing a prescription or as part of an Advanced or Enhanced Service. Below are a range of resources, both national and local, to help you help your patients.

National Information

• NHS Website
• Making Every Contact Count
• Age UK
• Asthma UK
• National Autistic Society
• British Heart Foundation
• Blood Pressure UK
• Brook – Sexual Health & Wellbeing
• Cancer Research UK
• FRANK – Honest Information about Drugs
• MacMillan Cancer Support
• Mind – Mental Health Support
• NSPCC
• Safe Spaces / Ask for ANI
• Samaritans
• Stroke Association

Local Information

Healthier Together– a tool that gives consistent, accurate and trustworthy healthcare advice to parents, carers, young people and professionals.

Healthwatch– Health and Social Care Champion for patients

• Healthwatch Bradford
• Healthwatch Calderdale
• Healthwatch Kirklees
• Healthwatch Leeds
• Healthwatch Wakefield

Social Prescribing

Minor / Urgent Eye Condition Services: My Eye Health

• Local West Yorkshire in West Yorkshire
• For non-emergency eye problems for patients in Leeds, see here.

Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Directories

• Diva Bradford
• VSI Alliance Calderdale
• Community Directory Kirklees
• Leeds Directory
• Connect to Support Wakefield

West Yorkshire ICB and CPWY – Carer Case Study – April 2024

Last Updated: 19th April 2024