EPP (Expert Patients Programme)
The Expert Patients Programme (EPP) is a free course for anyone living with one, or more, long-term health condition in Croydon. The six-week course is designed to boost your health and wellbeing, find solutions to common problems and help you feel more confident to manage your condition.
The Expert Patients Programme complements the care and support you already receive from healthcare professionals and will make you aware of other services and resources available in your area.
Weekly sessions cover a range of topics including:
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Managing symptoms
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Dealing with pain and tiredness
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Coping with feelings of depression and anxiety
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Healthy eating
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Exercise
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Managing stress
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Planning for the future
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Communicating with family, friends and health care
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Finding other health services in the community
Covid-19 Information
During the pandemic ARCC has been busy supporting the community in many different ways under challenging circumstances.
We have been working closely with Croydon Council and especially the NHS Croydon Health Services to hold online interactive sessions with the community and many health experts and community leader to get the correct information to the communities.
We have done several events around Covid-19 to raise awareness, myth-busting, mental health, seasonal infection and help with vaccination uptake of the Covid-19 Vaccine. The sessions were attended by members of the public, frontline staff and Council staff.
We have held small sessions which saw between 20-40 people and large sessions attended by 274 people in our January session. These sessions targeted particular topics and communities. Question and answer sessions between the public and local health specialists and GPs.
During each session we conducted two identical surveys one at the beginning of the session and one at the end of the session to gauge if peoples opinions had been changed once they had heard from the health specialists and we found that on all the occasions attendees had responded positively.
Resources


BIMA (British Islamic Medical Association) has a number of useful resources on their website about Covid-19 including resources in different languages.
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