Helping Patients to Manage their Health and Wellbeing
Reading Well is a national scheme supporting people to understand and manage their health and wellbeing using helpful reading. The books on the reading lists can be recommended by a health professional and taken free of charge from a local library, or users can self-refer and borrow the titles as they would any other library book. All Somerset libraries stock the collections. The books are all recommended by health experts, as well as by people with lived experience of the conditions and topics covered and their relatives and carers. There are five booklists available that are targeted at different age groups:
- Reading well for mental health
- Young people’s mental health (secondary school)
- Reading well for children
- Reading well for long term conditions
- Reading well for dementia
Reading Well GP information pack:
Get involved guide
Reading Well Fact Sheet
Reading Well Artwork
Booklists as interactive leaflets:
- Adult's booklist
- Children's booklist
- Dementia booklist
- Long term conditions booklist
- Young people's booklist
