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Leeds City Council
The Community page provides lots of useful local links and
information
Leeds Full Local Implementation Strategy (FLIS)
A site to help co-ordinate the progress of health and social
care information systems
Leeds Health Authority
Supplies details of local GPs and the latest reports
Voluntary Action - Leeds
Provides information about voluntary organisations in Leeds
The Stroke
Association - Local Information
The Stroke Association is this country's leading charity solely
concerned with stroke. We provide support to people who have
had strokes, their families and carers. We campaign, educate
and inform to increase knowledge of stroke at all levels of
society. We run an education, training and information service,
provide publications and welfare grants.
The Association's Community Services are organised and managed within 10 regions and details of the staff and services in the Yorkshire Region are as follows:-
Leeds Based Services/Staff
Julia MacLeod, the Regional Manager, is based at the Stroke
Association Regional Office at Seacroft Hospital, Leeds. She
is responsible for the co-ordination and management of the
community services in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region
and has been with the Stroke Association for almost 9 years.
She is supported in her work by Kate Watson, her full-time
secretary. Julia and Kate may be contacted on 0113 2600840,
Fax 0113 2640284 or jmacleod@stroke.org.uk
Louise Haigh and Maureen Backhouse are each part-time Education, Training and Information Service Organisers also based at the Stroke Association Regional Office. They are supported by Julie Whittle and Christine Hill and may be contacted on 0113 2601167.
Jo Bentley and Donna Casey are the Organisers of Leeds Dysphasia Support, a service for people with communication problems following stroke. They recruit, train and support vounteers who will either visit people in their own homes or help the Organisers at one of the four groups held each week. Louise also runs a fortnightly group for younger stroke people called Get Up and Go. They too are based at the Regional Office and can be contacted on 0113 232 8097 (Jo and Louise) or 0113 3909702 (Donna).
The other services within the
Yorkshire and Humberside Region managed by Julia are as follows:_
Dysphasia Support - Harrogate
Dysphasia Support - Sheffield
Dysphasia Support - Hull
Dysphasia Support - East Yorkshire
Family Support - Hull
Family Support - East Yorkshire
Stroke Prevention - Hull.
There are now five Primary
Care Group web sites in Leeds, which can be found at;
