We've been working with Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust to set up a "Books on Prescription" service to provide help for people with emotional or psychological problems including stress, eating disorders, depression and bereavement, to be launched next month."Books on Prescription" is a health scheme used successfully in other parts of the UK that we hope will come to be used by all GP surgeries in the Borough. It provides a collection of "self help" books that doctors and health professionals can prescribe to their patients to help as part of the recovery process. Once somebody's been given a prescription they can come to any of our libraries and we'll lend them a copy of that book. All loans on the "Books on Prescription" scheme will be confidential.
Items in the Books on Prescription Collection are only available via prescription, though there may be other copies of these titles available in the Adult Lending collections.
The scheme will be launched on Wednesday 7 November at the Manchester Golf Club in Middleton.
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