BCUHB offers a range of free health and wellbeing courses for adults living with long term health conditions and carers in communities across North Wales. These courses are for anyone who has symptoms for 6 months or more and amongst others include:
These courses will help you to:
These courses help manage the effects of a long-term condition such as:
How are the courses run?
Courses are led by two trained tutors, who themselves have experience of making life changes as a result of a long-term health condition. The majority of EPP Cymru tutors are volunteers. EPP Cymru courses are run in suitable venues in local communities and are free of charge. Some courses last one day, others can be a few sessions a week for a number of weeks depending on the subject.
What can be learnt at an EPP course?
The courses do not provide any health condition or treatment information, nor do they look at specific health needs. The aim of our EPP Cymru courses is to give participants the confidence to take responsibility for their own care, whilst also encouraging them to work in partnership with health and social care professionals.
What makes EPP Cymru special is the sharing of skills and experience with people who have to deal with the same things as each other.
Some of these are one day courses, some are one day pre-courses in preparation for one of the above EPP courses, and some are a six week course which is a 2½ hour session each week.
More information can be found here.