Portsmouth Health and Wellness Information Fair

Portsmouth North Primary Care Network (PCN) held a health and wellness information fair at Cosham Baptist Church on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.

Transcript

00:00So I'm Katie, I'm a social prescriber working for the Portsmouth North PCN.

00:05And I'm Matt, I'm also a social prescriber working for the Portsmouth North PCN.

00:09Brilliant, tell me where we are and what we're doing here today.

00:12So here we are at the Caution Baptist Church, we've got a health and wellness

00:18information fair going on today, it's become an annual fair actually, so we've got a really

00:25wide variety of groups and services that have come here today to kind of showcase what they

00:30offer the local community. We've got mainly low cost or free services so it's more accessible

00:40and yeah that's what everyone's gathered here today for.

00:42Tell us what the reaction's been like.

00:45So far the feedback we've had has been really positive, a nice variety of services so that's

00:51gone down well, we've had some talks going on at the same time which have gone down well.

00:56I think we might have a couple of pictures as well of that and

01:00yeah it's just generally been really well received and hopefully it's been,

01:04you know we haven't gone through room two in depth yet so hopefully it's been beneficial as well.

01:09Absolutely.

01:10So tell me why it's important to put on events like this.

01:14So we find in our practice that one in five GP appointments

01:18are actually for things that a GP can't necessarily help with and so that's part of my

01:25maths job roles are guiding people to things that are out in the community and so we've got

01:30everybody here today to kind of showcase that so people can take a look around and see what's

01:34available for themselves. I think it's also really important that it's more face-to-face

01:39rather than just over the phone so they can actually engage with those services one-to-one.