Our Services

Charnwood GP Network host the Enhanced Access Service for both Beacon and Carillon PCN’s, providing 67.5 hours of additional appointments per week. Enhanced Access Appointments are available 18:30 – 20:00 Monday to Friday, and 09:00 – 17:00 on Saturday. These appointments are a variety of remote consultations and face-to-face appointments and mainly hosted at Rosebery Medical Centre, Loughborough on behalf of the entire PCN. If you would like to book an appointment in the Enhanced Access Clinic, please contact your GP Practice.

What Is Social Prescribing?

Social Prescribing connects you with local services to improve your health and wellbeing. Instead of a medical prescription, you’ll get personalised support to tackle life’s everyday challenges—like stress, loneliness, or financial worries.

How Can It Help?

Our Social Prescribers can support you with:

• Signposting to housing support, benefits, or financial concerns
• Reducing stress, anxiety, or loneliness
• Finding local activities (exercise, arts, outdoors)
• Accessing training, education, or volunteering
• Coping with bereavement
• Building confidence and independence

What to Expect

• A friendly, 1-to-1 chat
• A personalised plan based on what matters to you
• Help finding the right local support
• Ongoing guidance to reach your goals

Health Benefits

• Less stress and anxiety
• Reduced isolation
• More confidence and motivation
• Better physical activity and social connections
• Feeling heard, valued, and supported

Real Stories

Family Support
Helped a family through illness and loss. Son gained access to day services, improving independence.

Housing Stability
Man at risk of eviction found legal, mental health, and housing support.

Confidence Building
Visually impaired woman joined a peer group and grew in confidence.

Fresh Start
Support with accessing training, and confidence building.

What People Say

“Supportive and easy to talk to.”
“Felt like talking to a friend who really cared.”
“They always followed up.”
“Big help to me and my husband.”

Get Started

If you live in Charnwood, Leicestershire, you can:

• contact us directly via the details below
• or ask your GP team for a referral

📞 01509 276621
📧 charnwood.socialprescribing@nhs.net

Charnwood GP Network provide breathing test clinics and offer Spirometry and FeNo testing for patients registered with a Shareholder Practice, the patient can be referred by their GP Practice and clinics are held on a Saturday at Rosebery Medical Centre, Loughborough and Charnwood Surgery, Mountsorrell.

The Pre-Transfer Clinical Discussion and Assessment (PTCDA) pilot, launched on 31 March 2020, was a clinically-led initiative involving collaboration across primary, community, secondary care, ambulance services, and social care. Accelerated by the pandemic, it focused on rapid clinical discussions—often with geriatric specialists—to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and promote safer, community-based alternatives.

Patients benefited from enhanced community assessment bundles, with follow-up visits by geriatricians when needed. Those admitted to hospital received active case management, reducing their stay, and continued structured care upon return to the community.

The PTCDA pilot can now be accessed by any community-based clinician who is considering admitting a patient with significant frailty/complex comorbidity, whether from a care home or their own home. This includes East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) paramedics and technicians, general practitioners and other practice-based clinicians, and Derbyshire Health United (DHU) out-of-hours professionals.