A leading sexual health consultant is urging people to ‘know their status’ in the run-up to World AIDS Day which is at the beginning of December. According to Dr Zana Ladipo, in the North West, it is estimated that nearly two in a 1,000 have HIV and in Sefton it’s one in 1,000. To highlight World AIDS Day, staff at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS … Continue reading Hospital highlights HIV testing week and World AIDS Day

The Mayor of Sefton, Cllr Dave Robinson, is asking as many people as possible across the borough to get behind this year’s Christmas gift appeal. The annual request asks all residents in Sefton to try and provide presents for some of the borough’s most deserving children and make this Christmas extra special for them.   Gifts, for children of all ages, can be taken to either Bootle … Continue reading Make Christmas special for children

Healthwatch Sefton is working with Sefton’s public health team to gather views from Sefton residents about NHS Health Checks. The NHS Health Check is a health check for adults in England aged 40 – 74 years. If you are in this age group without any pre-existing condition you can expect to receive a letter from your GP or local authority inviting you to attend. Due … Continue reading Feed back your views on NHS Health Checks

Sefton residents are being invited to share their thoughts and ideas on how health commissioners in the borough could better involve them in their local NHS. There are a number of ways that people can currently find out more about the work of NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS South Sefton CCG or get involved in what they do. This includes … Continue reading Involving you in the development of health services

Sefton Health and Wellbeing Board are required by law to produce a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) every three years, and to make sure that it is available for stakeholders to comments on before it is finalised and published. The pharmaceutical needs assessment describes pharmacy provision in Sefton together with when and where these are available.  NHS England also uses the PNA when considering applications to … Continue reading Sefton pharmacies – what do you think?