Information leaflets

Below are our most commonly used Patient Information Leaflets (PIL):

Parents / children: 

• Children with a temperature
• Spotting sepsis in children
• Health Visitors information
• Infant feeding information (also refer to Health Visitors above)
• Safe sleeping practice
• Understanding and navigating challenging behaviours in Children / Young people (toolkit for parents/carers)

ADHD (children)

• Next steps (to be completed by family)
• Next steps (to be completed by the School SENCO)

Social Prescriber:

• Patient leaflet for Social Prescribing

General health: 

• Keeping your kidneys safe

Condition specific: 

• AKI (Acute Kidney Injury)
• Fibromyalgia
• Fibromyalgia self-referral (Torbay)
• Back pain leaflet
• Obesity Leaflet

Physiotherapy service: 

• Physiotherapy self-referral information
• Physiotherapy for pain (pain rehabilitation)
• Pelvic floor & bladder control physio

Sexual Health & Contraception: 

• Contraception overview, by Dr Rachel Dixon (one of our GPs)
• IUS guide (coil)
• IUD guide (coil)
• Devon Sexual Health Service
• Sexual Health Service opening times
• Pregnancy termination service

Veterans information: 

• Veterans Gateway Leaflet

Other useful information: 

• Nail cutting service

Mental health: 

• Teign Estuary Mental Health Toolkit
• TALKWORKS
• Sleep hygiene
• SilverCloud – Stress
• SilverCloud – Resilience

The Moorings Mental Health Support:

Torquay – 07483991848 – 6pm-midnight every day inc. weekends and bank holidays

Exeter – 07990790920 – 6pm-midnight every day inc. weekends and bank holidays

Barnstaple – 07850927064 – 6pm-midnight Thursday-Sunday

Headspace Mental Health Support Plymouth 07890 257614 – 6-10pm 7 days a week

Samaritans 116123 (freephone) – 24hrs per day, 7 days a week

Mindline South Devon and Torbay 0300 330 5464 – Tue,Wed,Fri, Sat & Sun 8-11pm