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Helping Patients to Manage their Health and Wellbeing

Updated on Thursday 18 July 2024, 618 views

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 

​​​​​​​Reading Well GP information pack:

Booklists as interactive leaflets:

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