Sefton Life Rooms is now offering a telephone and email support service which is available Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4.30pm. The Sefton Pathways Advisors are available to chat and to offer signposting advice in areas such as: ·        Benefits/money ·        Housing ·        Employment ·        Physical and mental wellbeing ·        Volunteering ·        Family/Caring Role To speak to an advisor or to find out more information call 01704 383198 or email:  seftonpathways.advisorreferrals@nhs.net The Life Rooms … Continue reading The Life Rooms Sefton Support Service

NHS Test and Trace will today (July 30) launch a new campaign to encourage everyone to get a free test as soon as they get symptoms, alongside a new business plan to expand testing capacity and prepare the nation for winter. It comes as weekly statistics show NHS Test and Trace continues to break the chain of transmission across England, with more than 218,000 people now contacted … Continue reading NHS Test and Trace launches campaign to encourage everyone with symptoms to get a free test

People across Sefton will benefit from the opening of Cheshire and Merseyside’s first dedicated walk-through Covid-19 testing sites in Bootle tomorrow (31 July) and in Southport next week. Walk-through Local Testing Sites (LTS) improve access to COVID-19 tests for the whole community, especially those who do not have access to a car and those people who should not be using public transport because they have … Continue reading Sefton hosting region’s first walk-through COVID-19 Local Testing Sites

Southport and Formby Cancer Information and Support Centre on Stanley Street, Southport are re-opening its doors to provide residents affected by cancer with face-to-face, COVID safe support following the recent easing of lockdown restrictions. The team at the centre – a partnership between Macmillan Cancer Support and NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) – has put measures in place so that it can … Continue reading Southport and Formby Cancer Information and Support Centre re-opens

A raft of measures have been revealed as part of the government’s new obesity strategy to get the nation fit and healthy, protect themselves against COVID-19 and protect the NHS. Obesity is one of the biggest health crises the country faces. Almost two-thirds (63%) of adults in England are overweight or living with obesity – and 1 in 3 children leave primary school overweight or … Continue reading New obesity strategy unveiled