Living with Heart Failure

Helping to control your condition

The Living With Heart Failure Programme is a 16-week programme in which you will receive a wide range of information to help support you in living with your condition.

Our aim is to provide support and guidance to you and your carers in order for you to gain a better understanding and control over your heart condition. This will include understanding how the heart functions and the role of the kidneys.

Our objectives

• to provide you, your family and carers with education, advice and support in order for you to become more actively involved with the management and monitoring of your condition.
• to enhance quality of life for heart failure patients by ensuring you receive an individualized patient management plan. This will enable you to play a more active role in the management of your care.
• to closely monitor patients to identify potential occurrences of a crisis and act accordingly.
• to reduce incidents of unnecessary emergency admissions to hospital and minimizing inappropriate interventions which may impact on your quality of life.
• to promote effective communication between all the members of the multidisciplinary team involved in your care pathway.
• to develop and improve palliative care services within the community where appropriate.
• to implement advanced care planning initiatives including preferred place of care and death.

Services

“Living with COPD” programme

“Living with Heart Failure” programme

Support for patients with Neurological conditions such as M.S. and MND

Cancer patients support

Supporting patients with Other Life Limiting Illnesses

Bereavement Service

Hospice at Home (night-time care)

Your guide

If you would like to be referred to our Day Care Hospice or you are the carer or a family member of someone who you would like to refer on their behalf, then please either download our services from the website link or give us a call (01536) 747755 Mon-Fri 9-5pm. We look forward to hearing from you.

If you are looking to be referred to us for the Living with Heart Failure programme, for our Hospice at Home service or our Bereavement Support service then please speak with your GP or District Nurse as you can only be referred to us for these services via a medical professional.

Medical Professionals

If you are a medical professional and you wish to refer a patient to Lakelands Hospice then please either call us on (01536) 747755 Mon-Fri 9-5pm, send a fax on (01536) 747788 or download the appropriate referral form from the link.

Lakelands Hospice

• to provide a centre for the relief of pain and distress, whether physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual or social
• to create a welcoming and compassionate environment for people diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, their families and carers
• to provide holistic care to enhance quality of life, including effective symptom control and social and emotional support, enabling the person to live life as fully as possible
• to treat each individual with dignity, respect, understanding and acceptance
• to establish a resource centre for education and training, for professionals, families and carers and other support agencies involved in providing palliative care
• to provide development training and support for staff and volunteers to ensure a skilled and expert team that is enthusiastic about its role
• to work in partnership with Primary Care Trusts, General Practioners and other providers in the development of comprehensive palliative care services
• to work with Northamptonshire Provider Services in accordance with the information sharing agreement signed by both parties
• to monitor and evaluate our services and implement development programmes where appropriate
• to accept referrals from District Nurses when a patient is felt to be within the last four weeks of life
• to provide skilled nursing care to patients in their home
• to provide consecutive care every night including weekends and bank holidays (where possible) until the patient dies or care is no longer required
• to provide support and bereavement follow-up to families, carers and friends
• to secure the financial resources to run and develop the service we provide
• to ensure cost-effective use of resources

Promote positive thinking with NLP

NLP may look and sound daunting, but in short it is a set of tools and techniques that can introduce you to new, positive and constructive ways to improve your life.

Please bring a snack and water to drink. *Neuro-linguistic programming.

Code: SL2L03WZ

Start Date: 18/03/2017 – Saturday

Time: 10:30 – 13:30

No of Weeks: 2

Venue: Corby Old Village Community Hall, High Street, Old Corby Village

Mindfulness Introduction

Mindfulness can help in reducing stress, anxiety and depression, as well as helping people manage a wide range of physical conditions, and for our general wellbeing. This workshop is an introduction to the usefulness of being mindful.

Code: SL2Z12WZ

Start Date: 29/03/2017 – Saturday

Time: 10.00 -13.00

No of Weeks: 1

Venue: Corby Old Village Community Hall, High Street, Old Corby Village

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Creative Writing For Wellbeing

Writing as a form of expression can be very therapeutic and beneficial to mental wellbeing, explore different ways of writing each session. Support can be given to those that want to express themselves on paper but may need some help with the writing or literacy. Ideal for those new to Learn2b.

Code: SL2W01WZ

Start Date: 23/02/2017 – Thursday

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

No of Weeks: 3

Venue: Corby Old Village Community Hall, High Street, Old Corby Village

How to enrol

Simply contact our dedicated Learn2b team who can talk you through the choice of courses available and help you select one that’s right for you.

By telephone: 01604 368023

By email: [email protected]

By online registration form at: www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/learn2b

Made with many is a community-led arts programme which produces events and activities designed to surprise, delight and inspire local people. The programme aims to inspire more local Corby people than ever before to take the lead in experiencing, creating and taking part in high quality arts and cultural activities. Through conversations with local people and community decision-making panels, Made In Corby puts the community at the heart of commissioning artists and producing new and exciting events.

NHS 111 SERVICE

111 is the NHS non-emergency number. It’s fast, easy and free. Call 111 and speak to a highly trained adviser, supported by healthcare professionals. They will ask you a series of questions to assess your symptoms and immediately direct you to the best medical care for you.

NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Calls are free from landlines and mobile phones.

Their aim is to offer a comprehensive support service to the unpaid carers of Northamptonshire. They recognise their contribution to society and will edeavour to empower. Carers in improving their quality of life. 

As a local leader in care and support services in Northamptonshire, they know how frustrating finding the right care can be. They are one of the largest care providers in the county and are the only organisation to provide a full range of services for older people and adults with dementia, learning disabilities and physical disabilities.

Whether you need home care, day services, residential care respite or specialist equipment they can make a difference to your life. 

Welcome to the Corby Branch of The Royal British Legion

The Royal British Legion is the UK's leading Armed Forces charity and one of its largest membership organisations. Members get together through the network of branches and clubs all over the country and overseas to participate in social, fundraising and welfare activities.

Corby Branch meets on the first Satuday of every month at 7.00pm at Lloyd's Road Social and Ex-Servicemen's Club.

Membership is open to everyone. If you have an interest in the objectives of the Legion and want to help and support for those who have served and their families, come and join us. We welcome men and women of all ages, whether they have served in the Armed Forces or not.

Legion membership ensures that

• Remembrance is kept alive and that the sacrifices our brave Service men and women have made are never forgotten.
• The ex-Service community have a voice and that their concerns are brought to the public eye.

Becoming a member also provides the opportunity to get involved in a wide range of activities and events held locally, regionally and nationally throughout the year.

About The Royal British Legion

We provide financial, social and emotional care and support to all members of the British Armed Forces - past and present and their families. The Legion is also the national Custodian of Remembrance and safeguards the Military Covenant between the nation and its Armed Forces and is best known for the annual Poppy Appeal and its emblem the red poppy.

Founded in 1921, the Legion is not just about those who fought in the two World Wars of the last century, but also about those involved in the many conflicts since 1945 and those still fighting for the freedom we enjoy today. 

Royal Voluntary Service can help older people maintain their independence and stay involved in the local community.

We have volunteers in Northamptonshire who offer help and support so older people can stay safe warm and well at home across Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Rushden, Daventry and Northampton.

See our local services below but we may be able to offer you more. If you can't find something suitable for you or a loved one then just ask.

As everyone is different, Royal Voluntary Service can tailor support to your individual needs. We’ll visit you at home and work with you to create a support package that suits you.

All out volunteers are DBS checked.

STAGES (Support Training Advice Guidance Educational Services Limited) was initially created in August 2013 to fill the gap in after-care for recovering addicts and to help Mental Health patients to find peace and relaxation in their lives. It was also set up to help families of addicts and carers of mental health patients to recover their own lives and help themselves and their loved one on a journey to rescue their lives and give them hope of a brighter more positive future.

Why the community needs us

We offer Mindfulness Meditation Courses, Group Support, holistic therapies in Reiki, Indian Head Massage, Reflexology, Crystal Healing, Art therapy, Facebook and email support and help our clients to access any other local services that we are aware of. It is our aim to help and support people and empower them to help themselves and their families. We also have a huge collection of books relating to addiction, co-dependence and mental health which we share with our service users.

Our impact on the community

Some of our services users have reported gaining new perspectives, alternative coping mechanisms, growing in self-awareness, understanding and the ability to forgive. Gaining inner peace gentle healing and contentment. The alternative therapy treatments on offer have given much needed relaxation and relief from stress related pain. Gained tools needed to deal with panic and anxiety and reported greatly improved quality of sleep. See our main company website testimonial page for information.

Volunteers needed

Mentors to help recovering alcoholics drug addicts via facebook group, email and one to one support. reiki practioners level I or II to help deliver group therapies to sufferers of addiction, mental health and their carers. Fundraising, Driving