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Mental health, social isolation and the Lindsay Leg Club model

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Mental health, social isolation and the Lindsay Leg Club model

Mike Hoskins
8 June 2021

The Humber Bridge, in East Yorkshire, is a magnificent engineering achievement. It has the enviable claim of being the longest bridge in the world that it is possible to walk and cycle across. Or at least it was until March of this year, when it was closed to all pedestrian traffic due to the number of attempted and actual suicides. These catastrophic events are at the extreme end of the challenge posed by mental health across the country as the effects of COVID-19 takes its toll. As we have become better at managing the direct impact of COVID-19 through lockdown and vaccination, it is appropriate to reflect what impact the mental health challenges posed by this coronavirus is having on our Leg Club members. The essence of our model is that our Leg Clubs are social clinics, where whole person mental and social wellbeing are equally important as the physical treatment of wounds.

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