Waterloo Community Centre Fundraiser

Waterloo Community Centre is holding a fundraiser/awareness evening on Friday 3rd December at the Old Bank Inn on South Road, Waterloo from 7pm onwards.


Tickets can be purchased from the centre or on the evening for £2.50 each and there will be live music and raffles for your entertainment. For more information contact Debbi on 0151 920 2708.

A £5m package of Sefton cuts threatens jobs and community services

Much-loved community services today face the chop in a ruthless package of Sefton Council cuts that threatens more than 150 jobs. Town hall bosses this morning will propose ‘tactical’ savings of £5.7m as they attempt to plug a huge budget deficit. Valued and well-used council services are to be stripped back or axed altogether.

Parents’ anger at an emergency meeting, organised to discuss the damning report on a children’s minor injuries unit in Southport

Parents gathered at an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the decision to axe a children’s minor injuries unit in Southport.The meeting was organised by hospital campaign group CARES and took place on Monday evening (November 22) at Christ Church on Lord Street.

Nominate unsung Southport hospital heroes at this year’s Pride Awards

TIME is running out to honour the hard work of Southport’s fantastic hospital staff and volunteers. Nominations for the showpiece Pride Awards ceremony, which takes place at Southport Convention Centre next year, close on Friday, December 3.

Merseyside hospitals come top and bottom of death rate list

Merseyside hospitals today came top and bottom of a list of death rates.A survey released by the Dr Foster hospital guide revealed mortality in the North West remained above national levels.

Sainsbury's offers GPs free premises as it launches national network of practices

source: Pulse - http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=35&storycode=4127854&c=1&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Exclusive: Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is to launch a nationwide general practice network by allowing GPs to set up branch surgeries free of charge in up to 204 of its stores, Pulse can reveal.

Southport GPs are against the town’s call for a walk-in centre for children

A TOP Southport GP insists there is no need for our resort to have a minor injuries unit for local children. Dr Niall Leonard, a practitioner at Roe Lane Surgery, said kids with minor illnesses were best treated by their family doctors. It comes as NHS Sefton reported that the vast majority of local GPs are not in favour of the walk-in centre.

Look After Yourself

Are you aged between 40 and 60 and live in the Linacre or Derby area? Would you be willing to take part in a group to let NHS Sefton know your thoughts and ideas on how you think they can help you improve your health and wellbeing?

Carer’s allowance and older carers – AGE UK

Carer Watch have long had serious concerns regarding older carers and how there is so little support for them.

Therefore we are pleased to see this campaign by Age UK and fully support it.

Sefton Shining Stars Awards 2010

Sefton LINk were pleased to sponsor an award at this year's Sefton Shining Stars event. The awards celebrate and recognise the achievements of young people, and Sefton LINk were the proud official sponsors of the Achiever of the Year Award 2010.

Please click here to download the event programme

Thanks to everyone who attended and made the night a great success!

Opportunity for Sefton LINk members - Join the Scrutiny Committee for Improving Services for Children in North Sefton

Sefton LINk has been invited to have a seat on the Scrutiny committee for improving services for children in North Sefton. This request has been through the LINk Steering Group governance process and it has been agreed that it is really important to have representation at this meeting. The LINk is therefore looking for an INDIVIDUAL member to represent the LINk. This could be someone who has children or grandchildren/ knowledge of childrens services/ resides in North Sefton.

Patient Opinion Newsletter November 2010

Please click here to download the November 2010 Patient Opinion Newsletter

Don't forget, you can follow the latest Patient Opinion submissions using the Sefton widget found at the bottom of this News Blog!

Sefton CVS Funding Finance Accountancy Cashflow Workshop

In response to the cuts to public sector funding and likely impact on the Voluntary, Community and Faith sector, Sefton CVS is holding a drop in surgery to support Groups who have concerns about their future funding and finances.

Merseyside Young Stroke Information and Support Group Christmas Ball

Merseyside Young Stroke Information and Support Group have announced the details of their Christmas Charity Masquerade Ball 2010 taking place at Southport Theatre on Friday 3rd December

Imagine Christmas Fayre

Mental Health charity Imagine are pleased to announce the details of their upcoming Christmas Fayre taking taking place on Sunday 12th December 2010 at St Monica's Social Club, Bootle.

Carers Rights Day 2010

Sefton Carers Centre are pleased to announce the details of the 2010 Carers Rights Day taking place on Thursday 3rd December at the Fomrby RAFA Club.

Sahir House - World Aids Day

December the 1st is World Aids Day and Sahir House, along with a number of drop in venues around Liverpool will offer free, confidential, rapid HIV testing on a number of dates.

Putting People First - Think Local, Act Personal: Next Steps for Transforming Adult Social Care

The health and adult social care sector has launched a proposed agreement for the next steps with transforming adult social care. Think Local, Act Personal sets out how councils, health bodies, providers and other community organisations will need to work more closely so individuals, their families and carers have greater choice and control over their care and support. It is anticipated that this proposed agreement will continue the work of the Putting People First programme when it ends in March 2011.

Linaker Primary Children's Centre's 'Good as New' sale

 Linaker Primary Children's Centre are pleased to announce the details of their 2010 'Good as New' sale taking place on Friday 26th November 2010 in Southport with all proceeds going to Children in Need

Axe falls on Southport’s promised kids’ minor injuries walk-in centre

SOUTHPORT’S much-awaited children’s minor injuries unit has been ditched by health bosses over “clinical safety” fears.

The kids’ unit – first promised in June 2008 by NHS Sefton – was deemed unaffordable by experts, in a report entitled ‘Improving Children's Services In North Sefton’.

Parents last night accused the Primary Care Trust of reneging on its pledge to provide the walk-in centre, seen as critical following the removal of children’s casualty to Ormskirk in 2003.

'Politically motivated' equality law to be scrapped

An equality law dubbed "socialism in one clause" will be scrapped, Home Secretary Theresa May said today.

The measure was intended to force public authorities to take into account disadvantage and inequalities when making decisions about policies.

But Mrs May, who is also the equalities minister, said in reality it was just another bureaucratic box to be ticked.

We want your views on the North Sefton Integrated Care Organisation

By April 2011, no Primary Care Trust can manage and directly provide community health services, with the aim of creating more effective and integrated services.

In north Sefton, Community Health Services (CHS) will in future be run by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust.

NHS Central Lancashire, NHS Sefton and Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust have agreed to create a new organisation which will see real partnership and the bringing together of services from primary care and hospital that are currently separate.

Liverpool doctors make eye cancer break through

DOCTORS in Liverpool have made a breakthrough in the battle against eye cancer.
A team of clinicians at the Royal Liverpool Hospital have found a genetic link indicating whether the cancer will spread.

Waterloo Community Centre fundraiser/awareness evening

Just to let everyone know that Waterloo Community Centre will be hosting a fundraiser/awareness evening on 3rd December 2010 at The Old Bank Inn, South road Waterloo at 7.30pm. 
The aim of the evening is to raise the profile of the Community Centre and the courses and activities that we offer.  Also, all monies raised will be used to provide more activities for the local community to become involved in.

Sefton Mental Health Service User Celebration Event

Come along to our Celebration Event to
find out what the forum has been doing
since our launch event in November
2009, find out about mental health
services and meet other
service users!

Blood donor sessions in Formby for November

NHS BLOOD and Transplant is aiming to increase the number of blood donors during the winter months, as seasonal illnesses often prevent regular donors from giving blood.

500 workers face joblessness after a Sefton social services provider admitted it may be unable to meet financial commitments

FIVE hundred workers today face possible job loss after a social services provider admitted it may be unable to meet its financial commitments.


Sefton New Directions, which provides vital services for vulnerable adults and the disabled – including meals-on-wheels, day centres and respite care – warned workers of “serious threats to the continuity of the business”.


The council-owned privatised company was set up in 2007 and signed a 10-year contract with the authority to deliver adult care services in the borough.

Sefton Council could cut 1000 jobs to make savings

Staff at Sefton Council were warned of 1,000 job cuts this week, as the impact of last week's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) begins to take its toll.

Earlier this year the local authority's chief executive, Margaret Carney, estimated the council would need to make £53million in savings as the Coalition Government aims to get rid of the country's debt, but she said on Monday (October 25) she now believes it is the “minimum” that will need to be saved.

Recruitment campaign launched for 29,000 Census Collector roles

One of the largest current campaigns in the UK has begun as recruitment gets underway to fill over 29,000 temporary part time and full time vacancies to make the 2011 Census a success – and we need your help!

We would really appreciate the help of Sefton LINK in recruiting local people by spreading the word about the vacancies and directing people to our dedicated recruitment site: http://www.censusjobs.co.uk/

Diversity Week - Black and Ethnic Minority Communities event

As part of Sefton's Diversity Week, the Black and Ethnic Minority Communities Service Support informal market place event will take place on Friday 12th November at the Lakeside Christian Centre in Southport.

Where to go for fireworks fun across Merseyside

To commemorate the Year of Health and Well Being this year's free celebrations will see three of the city's major parks lit up in a spectacular display of fireworks orchestrated to a 20-minute specially produced “feel good factor” soundtrack.

As in previous years, there will be three displays – in Sefton Park, Newsham Park and Walton Hall Park. All start at about 7.30pm.

Log on to www.liverpool.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture

Sefton Council warns services may be “stopped altogether” in £38m savings drive

A Merseyside council has warned that services could be “stopped altogether” as it pinpoints emergency savings totalling £38m.

Leisure centres, libraries, community and cultural centres are among frontline Sefton services said to be under direct threat of being axed.

Scheme launches across Sefton to get families into shape

AN NHS-funded health scheme will launch across Sefton over the next month to help families get in shape.

The programme, based on the council exercise scheme MOVE IT, will encourage seven-16 year olds and their families to use interactive learning and physical exercise to achieve greater fitness for the next generation.

Sefton Council and NHS Sefton to implement inspections to help local sunbed salons prepare for 2011 legislation.

JOINT effort between Sefton Council and NHS Sefton is ensuring that sunbed services remain lawful.The two bodies will work together to carry out inspections at more than 50 premises to ensure new rules are implemented.

During the inspections advice and help will be given to ensure sunbed providers are ready for new legislation which comes into effect in April 2011.New rules have been laid out for sunbed salons and premises within the UK preventing any persons under the age of eighteen from using any ultra-violet based tanning bed.

2011 Census information

The 2011 Census is fast approaching and will be launched on 27th March 2011.

A census is a count of the population. We have had one in the UK every ten years to find out more about who we are as a nation. We ask everyone to tell us a bit about themselves to help census users decide how best to plan, fund and deliver the everyday services we all need – like housing, education, healthcare and transport.