Living Well Sefton now has a new series of dates for its free Make Every Contact Count (MECC) training. Backed by Public Health England, the training aims to maximise the opportunities front line workers have to increase the number of healthy chats in Sefton. The training provides advice and support for behaviour change so that people can have better wellbeing and live longer, healthier lives. It’s … Continue reading You can make every contact count

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Sefton are inviting residents to come along to their first governing body meetings of 2019. NHS Southport and Formby CCG will hold its meeting on Wednesday 6 February and NHS South Sefton CCG will then hold its meeting on Thursday 7 February. The CCGs in Sefton hold their governing body meetings in public every two months to discuss and agree … Continue reading Local NHS commissioners confirm governing body meeting dates

The rain did nothing to dampen the spirits of everyone at Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre  recently, as the charity celebrated its 40th birthday. Based in Ince Blundell, the animal-loving charity has been providing a rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming centre for abused, abandoned and unwanted animals since 1979. As part of the ongoing festivities for what is a year-long celebration of how much the centre does … Continue reading Freshfields Animal Rescue Celebrates 40 Years of Love

Below is an article about aims to steer patients towards community activities to increase their health and wellbeing. Living Well Sefton has been piloting this approach with great success in Bootle for two years with the support of Well Sefton and  plan to roll it out across the rest of the borough. The number of workers trained to prescribe social activities, like exercise groups and … Continue reading More ‘social prescribers’ to ease pressure on GPs

Sefton Council has launched a new crowdfunding initiative to help community groups and volunteers create incredible projects to transform the borough. The local authority has teamed up with national crowdfunding platform Spacehive to create the #SeftonCrowd, a community-led initiative which can help groups and individuals to improve the communities where they live. Supporting a project can cost as little at £2 and funding may also … Continue reading Volunteers launch #SeftonCrowd to help transform lives across Sefton