Lewisham Primary Care Trust provides an Expert Patient Programme to help people who are living with a long term condition, such as heart disease, diabetes, back pain, arthritis or depression.

This is a free self management course to help people improve their quality of life.  The programme is run at local venues by experienced trainers who have already been through the course.  It runs for six weeks with each weekly session lasting 2.5 hours. 

The course will help those attending to manage their condition, understand the importance of diet and nutrition, how to deal with pain and tiredness and get the most out of life.

Over 300 local people with a range of conditions have already benefited from this course.

We are going to be running courses in the next few months; to register your interest for the course please email Yvette.London@lewishampct.nhs.uk