Michelle Tegama is our Mental Health Practitioner working together with the clinical teams to support our existing patient services in the practice.

Michelle is employed by Lancashire Care Foundation Trust and works across the PReston & South Ribble network practices and is based in Longton Health Centre on a Tuesday and Thursday

Michelle has a mix of face to face and telephone appointments and your triage requests may be signposted directly to her where appropriate rather than with a GP.

Sarah Fearnley is our in-house musculoskeletal first contact practitioner (or FCP) who works at the practice on behalf of Primary Care Physio for the Preston & South Ribble Network.

FCP's are trained specialists and can help patients with musculoskeletal issues such as back, neck and joint pain by:

• assessing and diagnosing issues
• giving expert advice on how best to manage their conditions
• referring them to specialist services if necessary

If you contact the practice with back or joint pain, you may be booked in to see Sarah in the first instance rather than a GP. 

We have physiotherapy services based in the practice on a Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Please contact the practice using our online triage service for a first contact physiotherapy clinical assessment for any knee, back, joint or neck pain

Georgia Fallows is our Health & Wellbeing Community Support Link Worker / Care Co-ordinator in practice. 

Georgia works from Monday to Thursday in practice and carries out frailty assessments, Over 75 healthcare checks, Carer checks in face to face clinics or telephone appointments where appropriate to support patients if they have any unmet needs or simply need support from community services, of which she can help to signpost you to.

Georgia carries out Holistic Health Assessments in practice on a face to face basis - please get in touch if you would like to book an assessment

A selection of services and activities available for you across the area. Please note, all information is correct at time of being published but may be subject to change by the individual service providers. 

Directory of Services in South Ribble | South Ribble

Directory of Activities in South Ribble | South Ribble

Georgia works as part of the Primary Care Network to support with social prescribing referrals where appropriate. 

Georgia will discuss patient needs on an individual basis to provide wellbeing or coaching support where needed

Georgia will signpost and link in with local services where appropriate via the South Ribble Council Social Prescribing Team 

South Ribble Council host a Social Prescribing Team who are there to support you and build confidence to manage your own health and wellbeing and address any other issues that may be impacting your day to day life.

If you prefer you can speak with a member of their team who will be able to understand if their service could help you, or whether they may be able to put you in touch with other services who are better placed to help.

The support the council provides is fully funded by the council and therefore free, confidential and personalised support that starts with you and can be guided by you.

Once you have contacted the council, someone will be in touch with you for a chat to get to know what they can help you with; from there they will sort out an appointment and support going forward.

The council want to support you in a way that works for you, so you will have the choice over whether you wish to have your appointments over the phone or in person.

Social prescriber intervention (sometimes know as community referral) works by providing support for any of the following issues:

• money worries
• housing issues
• isolation / loneliness
• employment / new skills
• diet / exercise 
• mental health and wellbeing

How to get in touch

Their team is available between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday. 

You can contact them on 01772 625286 or via email to social.prescribingSR@southribble.gov.uk.

Please send them your name, a contact number and email and a brief summary of what support you need.

If the support, you need is urgent or an emergency you should contact the most appropriate service. In any event of an immediate risk to life call 999.