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GPs prescribe volunteers

GPs prescribe volunteers J_255_01_05WWOP9.1Marchinsides 23/3/05 4:12 pm Page 34 Feature Martin Walford Senior Press Officer, CSV (Community Service Volunteers) There is a fairly even mix of men and women volunteers involved in the scheme, including GPs volunteers with disabilities. Many of them are retired professionals – often not from the healthcare sector – who ‘prescribe’ are able to offer their time to help support their local GP. The scheme has become so successful that the GPs are now regularly volunteers ‘prescribing’ RSVP volunteers to their patients, and sometimes Volunteering can be thought of as hard work encourage patients to become volunteers with little or no financial return. But, as Martin themselves. Walford of CSV explains, it is a rewarding way The volunteers do not have to be medically to spend retirement and improve one’s health, trained or have a health profession background. while helping to ease the strain on over- They help transport patients who have no access to subscribed public services. public transport to hospitals, health centres and GPs’ surgeries, assist with collecting house-bound patients’ prescriptions, and help with disabled Introduction patients. The volunteers have become a vital ‘extra CSV is the UK’s largest volunteering organisation, resource’, helping out with non-medical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Working with Older People Emerald Publishing

GPs prescribe volunteers

Walford, Martin
Working with Older People , Volume 9 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2005
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J_255_01_05WWOP9.1Marchinsides 23/3/05 4:12 pm Page 34 Feature Martin Walford Senior Press Officer, CSV (Community Service Volunteers) There is a fairly even mix of men and women volunteers involved in the scheme, including GPs volunteers with disabilities. Many of them are retired professionals – often not from the healthcare sector – who ‘prescribe’ are able to offer their time to help support their local GP. The scheme has become so successful that the GPs are now regularly volunteers ‘prescribing’ RSVP volunteers to their patients, and sometimes Volunteering can be thought of as hard work encourage patients to become volunteers with little or no financial return. But, as Martin themselves. Walford of CSV explains, it is a rewarding way The volunteers do not have to be medically to spend retirement and improve one’s health, trained or have a health profession background. while helping to ease the strain on over- They help transport patients who have no access to subscribed public services. public transport to hospitals, health centres and GPs’ surgeries, assist with collecting house-bound patients’ prescriptions, and help with disabled Introduction patients. The volunteers have become a vital ‘extra CSV is the UK’s largest volunteering organisation, resource’, helping out with non-medical

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