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"A Public Health Panacea?" event

12th Annual Fresh Lecture 
Urban Green Space: A Public Health Panacea? 
Presented by Professor C. Philip Wheater
6pm, Wednesday 10^th November 2010, Marybone Lecture Theatre

 The Centre for Public Health is delighted to be hosting the 12^th annual “Thomas Fresh” event in association with the Duncan Society.

Alzheimer's Society Christmas Ball Invitation

In preparation for this year's Christmas Ball, Peter Teasdale at the Alzheimer's Society has issued an invitation to the event along with information about the evening. Please see below...

Reaching out to carers innovation fund 2010/2011

The Government wants carers to be able to maintain a life of their own alongside their caring responsibilities. It is keen to improve early identification of carers so that they can be supported in considering their various options and make informed choices about their lives. We are therefore targeting a specific scheme at voluntary sector organisations in England who, in addition to their primary work with individuals with particular conditions, illnesses or with particular age groups, are also keen to support carers.

The Department of Health  is offering a fund for £1 million for organisations supporting carers as part of the government initiative to allow for carers to have a life of their own in addition to their caring responsibilities.

The Department of Health is keen to target carers at the early stages of their caring responsibilities to ensure they can be supported in considering various options and make educated choices about their futures.  To implement this initiative the Department of Health  is targeting specific schemes at the voluntary sector organisations in England who support carers.

Sefton and Northwest Zimbabwe Association event

SEFTON AND NORTHWEST ZIMBABWE ASSOCIATION present

An Enchanted Evening, for a very special reason...

Join us For SANWZA Food Day

Saturday 13th November 2010

5 pm till late

Emmanuel Church Hall

Cambridge Road

Southport, PR9 9RH

Sefton Equalities Partnership: Celebrating Diversity and Interfaith Weeks 2010

Sefton Council for Voluntary Service and Sefton Equalities Partnership are pleased to anounce to details of the Celebrating Diversity and Interfaith Weeks 2010. Please click the link below to download the event information (.pdf).

http://www.seftonlink2.org.uk/images/stories/diversityflyer.pdf

Department of Health Spending Review 2010

In line with the Government's commitment to protect health spending, overall NHS spending will increase by 0.4% in real terms over the course of the Spending Review period. This includes a 1.3% increase in the resource budget, and a 17% decrease in capital spending. The administration budget will be reduced by 33%, and reinvested to support the delivery of NHS services.

New support for GPs will cut the costs of commissioning

A new series of resources to support GP Consortia to design and commission services for patients was announced today by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at the National Association for Primary Care Annual Conference.

The commissioning packs will provide GPs with a set of tools and templates to use when designing and buying services for their patients. The first of these support packs published today is for cardiac rehabilitation services and aims to support GP commissioners to design services that are suited to local needs and cost effective.

New NHS "111" telephone service ‘dilutes’ nurse role

The “significant dilution” of the role of trained nurses in the telephone service due to absorb NHS Direct has been laid bare in a parliamentary question.

Health minister Simon Burns has revealed only 38 per cent of staff at a pilot site for NHS 111, the single access point for all non-emergency NHS healthcare services, are registered nurses.

Department of Health makes choice an obligation

GPs may be given a contractual obligation to offer choice and hospitals will be required to offer appointments to named consultant-led teams from April 2011 under government proposals set out today.

The Department of Health has published aconsultation on Patient Choice alongside its proposals for an 'information revolution', and claims the two documents together will give patients more choice and a louder voice within the NHS.

Liverpool hospital shortlisted for national leadership award

A Liverpool hospital is celebrating after reaching the shortlist for the prestigious NHS awards.

Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, have been shortlisted by the NHS Leadership Awards and is competing to be recognised as the ‘NHS Board of the Year’ against two other NHS Trusts; Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell &West Birmingham NHS Trust.

Statutory Consultation on the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment for NHS Sefton

What is the consultation about?

NHS Sefton has a duty to develop and publish a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) by 1 February 2011. The PNA is a statement of the pharmaceutical needs of the population of the PCT. It will be used to make decisions when applications are received to open new pharmacies, move existing pharmacies and which services should be provided by a pharmacy in a particular area or Sefton.

The Draft PNA is included for your information. NHS Sefton welcomes your comments on the document.

Southport eye tests reviewed after concerns about staff

Eye examinations of 536 diabetic patients are being reviewed after concerns about two members of staff at a Merseyside hospital.

The NHS will share the pain of cuts

Health service staff are not immune to cuts and patients could suffer, the nursing leader tells Denis Campbell.

Despite the cabinet finalising colossal spending cuts across government, the axe will not fall on health. David Cameron has decided that even in an age of austerity the NHS is different, special – too important to the public to endure its share of the pain.

Southport Hospital launches eye review after concern is raised about the work of two of its staff

DOCTORS at Southport hospital are reviewing hundreds of eye examinations after concern was raised about two of its staff.

Review agrees value of a core Summary Care Record

Reviews commissioned by the Health Minister Simon Burns have concluded that a Summary Care Record containing core patient information will prove valuable for patients needing emergency care, the Department of Health announced today.

Fears about transport links to hospital services will be left ‘dangerously inadequate’

Fears have been raised that transport links to hospital services in Maghull and Aintree will be left ‘dangerously inadequate’.

The government have cut Merseytravel funding by £10m, and Sefton Central MP Bill Esterson expects public transport in Maghull and Aintree to be hit hard.

Dutch IT experts visit Aintree University Hospital

A group of Dutch health IT experts have visited Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England, as part of an annual initiative to visit areas of healthcare IT excellence in Europe.The group of 23 professionals, who came from hospitals from across the Netherlands and are all members of the Dutch Association for Medical Records Administration (NVMA), visited the trust to look at its electronic patient records system and a dashboard that aims to improve clinical performance.

Drop-in centres planned for Sefton MS sufferers

Support is at hand for multiple sclerosis sufferers in Sefton. The area branch of the MS Society is setting up new drop-in centres in Formby, Southport and Crosby, which will offer sufferers the chance to meet others affected by the disease and take part in a special yoga class.

Patients' views get digital treatment

People can now easily see patients' electronic feedback about their local health services - even if they are not computer users. A new digital service offered by Kirklees council will take data from Patient Opinion, a website founded by Sheffield GP Paul Hodgkin, to convey views on NHS organisations.

Health Inequalities Working Group

Sefton Councillors are currently working with NHS Sefton in undertaking a cross-cutting review of the underlying determinants of health. The aim of the review is to gain a better understanding of the inequalities in society that affect health and in particular how these play out for children of primary school age and their families/ the people around them.

Merseytravel Smart Ticketing Initiative

.  As part of our continued efforts to improve services, Merseytravel is embracing the Government's national policy to introduce smart ticketing across the UK on all forms of public transport. Over the next two years, Merseytravel's Smart Ticketing Initiative will begin the implementation of smart ticketing to improve the customer experience by delivering a range of new ticketing products across the Merseyside Region.

Merseytravel's ethos of 'putting the Passenger First' will ensure we offer a range of ticketing solutions which suit the needs of existing and new passengers.

Alzheimer's Society October 2010 Newsletter

The Alzheimer's Society - the leading care and research charity for people with all forms of dementia, their families and carers - are pleased to present their October 2010 Newsletter. To download the PDF document, please click here

Sefton CVS offer FREE National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs)

Sefton Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) are pleased to offer a selection of NVQ Level 2 Qualifications to local organisatsions and their staff. For full ifnormation, please download the flyer

For more information, please contact James Woods or Mike Sargent to arrange an appointment at the Sefton CVS NVQ open day whihc will take place on Thursday 7th October 2010 between 10.30am - 3.30pm at Netherton Park Neighbourhood Centre. Phone 0151 920 0726 ext 106/325 or email james.woods@seftoncvs.org.uk

Update from NHS Sefton: September 2010

NHS Sefton have published the latest bulletin update which you can download here

Contents of the September 2010 update  inlcude...Janet now Acting Chief Executive