Southend Leg Club - A members story

Leg Club is a model of care that looks at empowering patients to have responsibility for their legs. It's done within a social setting so it looks more at social isolation and peer support, and encouraging people to come together in a sort of non-medical environment, in a community setting. And that's what we do here at Southend Leg Club. and then they started to get better and the dietic nurses said you're out of that now Sylvia how about going to the leg club? I've been going there 10 years. Sylvia's been coming to leg club for quite a while, she's had leg ulcers in the past but she's now all healed up so she just comes really for a promotion of Welleg to help keep those legs nicely healed and closed. I didn't realise until I went to the club that it was so many that had got back ulcers. I didn't realise. I felt that I wasn't the only one. We also help with social isolation so it encourages her to become involved with other people here. She gets to play Scrabble and gets involved and yeah, just within a social environment. and obviously the volunteers that we've got here help to encourage that social interaction and get people talking and chatting. Volunteers are the keystone for leg clubs. Without your volunteers then nothing's going to happen. They are absolutely fundamental to what goes on and we have here an absolutely fantastic group of volunteers. Every week come rain or shine they'll turn up and they They just help support us as the nurses to deliver the care. They are fantastic, absolutely fantastic group of people.