The hub provides services group sessions, one-to-one consultations and wellbeing groups.
By Jasmine Ketibuah-FoleyThe Bridgwater centre offers a range of mental health services such as education groups for wellbeing and healthy eating.Organisers said people can access the hub via their GP, healthcare practitioner, or a self-introduction.Somerset NHS Foundation Trust's operational service manager, Helen Surridge, said that colleagues from the trust and the Open Mental Health alliance work closely with "experts by experience" to get their ideas.
"Previously these people would have been seen at the Glanville House NHS centre, also in Bridgwater, or at one of the town's GP practices." She said with both NHS and Open Mental Health colleagues located in the same building, "those informal but important conversations about an individual's social circumstances can take place".
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust's service director for mental health and learning disabilities, Jane Yeandle, said: "It is great that we have this opportunity to provide people in and around Bridgwater this high street facility."
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