Boston
Endeavor Park, Wyberton Fen,
Boston, PE21 7TT
Wellbeing Services
At St Barnabas, we want to look after every part of you, including your physical, emotional, spiritual, financial and social needs. We offer a large range of free wellbeing services to patients with a life limiting or terminal illness, their families, friends and carers. Life limiting illnesses include conditions such as cancer, dementia, Parkinson’s, heart failure, motor neurone disease and others.
Our wellbeing services include:
- Occupational therapies
- Physiotherapy
- Financial advice
- Wellbeing support including: counselling, bereavement support, spiritual care, and much more.
Our aim is to help you live as well as possible and achieve the things that are important to you. We have multiple Wellbeing Centres around Lincolnshire that run support groups and other services, each with their own calendar of weekly and monthly events. These local bases are where you can attend medical appointments and wellbeing services.
Find your nearest Wellbeing CentreWhat wellbeing services do we offer?
Bereavement & Spiritual Care
Our team can help patients, their families, friends and carers by providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support. We can offer counselling, bereavement support, social groups, and spiritual care to all faiths and none. Talking with a counsellor, spiritual care champion, religious leader or minister can help to ease worry.
See what support we can offer youFamily & Carers Wellbeing Support
We know that caring for a loved one can be very rewarding, but we understand it can also be demanding of your time and sometimes overwhelming. We work collaboratively with Carers First to offer patients, their family members, and carers, support where and when they need it.
A carer is someone who provides care and support to a family member or friend, who is unable to do tasks such as washing, dressing, taking medication, attending appointments etc. For some, taking on a caring role can be sudden, for others caring responsibilities can grow gradually over time. The amount and type of support that carers provide can vary considerably.
We can provide help with:
- Carers champions who can listen to worries and signpost to organisations that can help.
- Referrals to Carers First and help with emergency carers plans if needed.
- Resources and information for working carers.
- Relaxation.
- Emotional support.
To find out what services are available in your area, please call 0300 020 0694.
Carers First
Welfare & Benefits Advice
One of the first thoughts when someone is diagnosed with a life-limiting or terminal illness is about finances and the impact this will have on themselves and their family. We aim to alleviate worries about financial wellbeing through the expert support and guidance of our welfare and benefits advisers.
Find out what we can help withImprove your Physical Wellbeing
People with a life-limiting or terminal illness may find completing activities or basic tasks and maintaining independence more challenging. To help combat this, we have physiotherapists and occupational therapists that can support you to maintain your independence and function in line with individual goals.
We offer various physical services including physiotherapies, occupational therapies, exercise classes and more. These interventions will be discussed with you during the course of your treatment at St Barnabas.
This can include:
- Improved pain management
- Reducing anxiety
- Management of breathlessness
- Improving sleep
- Managing fatigue
- Improvement in deteriorated function as a result of illness or treatment (e.g. surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
We also offer relaxation therapies including tai chi, which can help with people’s physical symptoms, as well as supporting their mental health.
To find out what services are available to you, please call 0300 020 0694.
What is a wellbeing centre?
The St Barnabas Wellbeing Centres are a base in the community where patients, their families, friends, and carers can attend medical appointments, counselling and bereavement support, and wellbeing services.
These are modern, friendly spaces where local people can find support. The centres host support groups, creative wellbeing groups, informal drop-in coffee mornings, along with other types of social events where everyone is welcome to have a chat and meet new people.
There are multiple Wellbeing Centres around Lincolnshire, each with their own calendar of weekly and monthly events. Support groups are open to the general public – everyone is welcome!
View our Wellbeing Social Events
Where are our wellbeing centres?
The St Barnabas Wellbeing Centres are located in Boston, Grantham, Lincoln, and Louth.
In Spalding, the Johnson Community Hospital serves as a base for nurses in the area and offers medical appointments. We also offer a range of Wellbeing Services within Spalding’s public spaces. Although we don’t have a permanent base in Sleaford, we do host weekly Knit & Natter sessions in the area.
If you have any questions about Spalding and Sleaford, please call 01775 760 140.
St Barnabas Locations
St Barnabas Locations
