Events

Mersey Care are holding an online Public and Patient meeting on Wednesday 18th January. The meeting is open to everyone with an interest in Mersey Care services and will be hosted on Zoom. 

The meeting will enable service users, carers, their representatives and members of the public to meet with some of the Mersey Care senior managers and discuss  plans for service improvements. There will also be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share thoughts about any other Mersey Care services.

For more information and to receive a Zoom link and password please email [email protected]  or call Dennis Dewar on 01925 664850. 

 

Are you a St Helens resident aged 50+ and want to have your say about community services? Join Age UK Mid Mersey at their "Have Your Say" event on Friday 18th November to feedback your views, connect with your community and enjoy a free lunch (hotpot) as well as free tea and coffee. There will also be opportunity to enter a free prize draw as well as receiving a free goodie bag! To book your place, please contact them on 0300 003 1992 or alternatively you can email them [email protected]

As a first step in developing a comprehensive Engagement Strategy, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Healthwatch St Helens are co-hosting an online consultation event:

• From 10am – 11:30am on Thursday 10 February 2022

 

This is an opportunity for individuals, and community organisations, to work alongside Mersey Care to ensure each service user and carer can play a meaningful role in the design, delivery, and monitoring of the services they receive.

 

To be sent a link for the meeting, please contact:

          [email protected]

 

For more information about the consultation, or if you have any difficulties attending online meetings please contact:

Dennis Dewar,

telephone. 01925 664850 or

email [email protected]

 

They recognise the difficulties some people have with online meetings and plan to hold a combination of face to face and online events as soon as possible.

 

Please do not hesitate to share this with anyone you think may be interested as they want to include as many people as possible.

CAMHS hold an on-line drop in on the last Wednesday of the month. This is an opportunity for parents and carers to meet senior CAMHS managers, find out more about the service, and ask any questions they may have. The next drop-in is:

Wednesday 30 June from 6pm to 7pm

To be sent a link to the drop-in contact Dennis Dewar:

Telephone (01925) 664850 or Email [email protected]

Please let Dennis know if you are interested but unable to attend on-line or at the scheduled time.

All parents and carers of young people supported by CAMHS are welcome to attend

The next meeting of the St Helens & Distict Group of Diabetes UK will be on Wednesday 4th March 2020 at 7:30pm in St Helens United Reformed Church, King Street WA10 2JZ. The church is next to Windle Pilkington hall and the speaker will be Dr Gill Hunt, who will talk on the following:

 

Looking after your emotional wellbeing with diabetes

Dr Hunt is a clinical psychologist from St Helens Hospital and has spoken before in February 2017. Anyone with an interest in diabetes is welcome to attend, admission is free and refreshments are avaialble after the meeting. They also have a large selection of diabetes leaflets available. They would particularly like to welcome anyone who has been recently diagnosed with diabetes and has not been to a meeting before. The St Helens & District group of Diabetes Uk are a very friendly group and you may be assured of a warm welcome, so come along and find out how we can all look after ourselves better.

For further details contact C Bowmaker on 0151 480 0821

Diabetes UK

'Know diabetes. Fight diabetes'

Diabetes UK is the leading charity that cares for, connects with, and campaigns alongside all people in the UK affected by and at risk of diabetes. They provide information, advice and support to help people who are living with diabetes. They are also working to make research breakthroughs, and ultimately find a cure. If you need to talk about diabetes, you can contact the Diabetes UK Helpline on 0345 123 2399 Monday to Friday, 9am - 6pm, or email [email protected]

St Helens Madlove are delighted to welcome mental health campaigner and suicide survivor Jonny Benjamin MBE to St Helens for a special screening of his documentary The Stranger on the Bridge on  Thursday 28th November 5pm. Part of A Madlove Take Over, an arts festival for mental health.

Jonny will be joined by fellow mental health campaigner Angela Samata for a Q&A after the film screening.

The Stranger on the Bridge tells Jonny’s moving story. Having been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder shortly beforehand, he stood on London’s Waterloo Bridge in January 2008 and prepared to take his own life. That was until a stranger walking across the bridge saw him and talked Jonny down from the edge. Jonny was taken to hospital and didn’t see the stranger again but was determined to find him and thank him for what he did.

Jonny launched the #FindMike campaign with the support of Rethink Mental Illness, which became a social media sensation, eventually reaching over 300 million people worldwide. Emotional, heartwarming and thought-provoking, this is a film about a simple human interaction and how one man’s kind gesture six years ago has had a huge butterfly effect beyond what anyone could ever have imagined.

The screening forms part of A ‘Madlove’ Take Over festival, produced by Merseyside-based social arts organisation Heart of Glass, artist the vacuum cleaner (James Leadbitter) and featuring the work of 13 local, national and international artists. The Madlove Take Over Space is based in the old Argos store, Unit 2, The Hardshaw Centre, Church Street, St Helens, WA10 1EB.  Find out more about A Madlove Take Over here.

The Madlove Take Over space is safe, welcoming and accessible. Please find more access information here and a map of the venue here.

This event, which will be of interest to HR teams, Directors / Deputy Directors of nursing, carer support organisations and those with a responsibility for staff health and wellbeing and staff side colleagues, is jointly hosted by VSNW and Health & Care Partnership for Cheshire & Merseyside.

The current draft agenda is as follows:

10.00am: Arrival, refreshments and registration

10.15am: Welcome and introduction - Karen Howell & Chris Samosa (Chair)

10.25am: Cheshire and Merseyside research findings – Warren Escadale (CEO of VSNW)

11.00am: Break

11.20am: Challenges facing carers in the workplace- a carers organisation perspective – Carl Harris (Halton Carers Centre)

11.45am: A case study (1) – a Carer’s story from Cheshire and Merseyside TBC

12.00noon: A Trade Union perspective TBC

12.30pm: Lunch

1.10pm: Reflections from the morning session

1.20pm: A case study (2) – an NHS Employer TBC

1.35pm: Action Planning on tables (focusing on the recommendations from the research)

2.35pm: Developing the Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Carers charter – Chris Samosa (Chair)

3.15pm: Summary and close – Chris Samosa (Chair)

Date And Time:

Tuesday, 24th September 2019, 10:00 – 15:30 BST

Location:

The Foundry
65 Lugsdale Road
Widnes
WA8 6DA

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For more information and to book your free place, please click the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carers-in-the-nhs-workforce-tickets-65163525860

St Helens CCG would like to invite you to their Annual General Meeting (AGM) - and film premiere of 'St Helens - Dream to Reality' on Wednesday 11th September 12.30pm at Cineworld St Helens.

This will be an opportunity to hear from the CCG’s Governing Body about the work undertaken in 2018/19; including their achievements, key challenges and an update on the annual accounts.  

This year the annual report summary is being presented in the form of a film: ‘St Helens - Dream to Reality’ which illustrates the journey the CCG has been on over the last year. As this is the premiere of the film, the event is being held at Cineworld St Helens Cinema, Chalon Way West, St Helens, WA10 1BF from 12.30pm until 2pm, with tea and coffee served from 12.30pm and the feature beginning at 1pm.  

This is a public meeting to which everyone is welcome to attend.  However, to help plan catering and cinema seating, please advise if you plan to attend by calling 01744 627596 or e-mailing [email protected]

If you have access requirements which you need to advise them of or need assistance getting to the venue please contact them directly on 01744 627596.  Cineworld has free parking and designated disabled spaces close to the main door and is in the town centre so is easily accessible by public transport.