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A review of Points of You (PoY) and the new Friends and Family Test (FFT)
From 1 st April 2020 the Friends and Family Test question is changing nationally. The mandatory change is being made to give service users, families...
New Wound Care Hubs
From Monday, 6th January 2020, the wound care service in Sunderland who offer services such as removal of stitches, management of wounds and leg...
Region’s NHS launches major public awareness campaign in appeal for people to help our vital services by using them wisely
The NHS across the North East and North Cumbria is today launching a major public awareness campaign in a bid to help ease pressure on busy frontline...
Christmas and New Year pharmacy opening times
Make sure you know which pharmacies are open over the festive season. You can find details of the pharmacies open over Christmas and New Year here http:// bit.ly/34xgLI3 Published 18/12/2019
Sunderland Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) have launched their updated Neglect Toolkit
On Monday 2nd December 2019, SSCP launched an updated SSCP Neglect Toolkit. Neglect of children and young people can be one of the most complex areas for identification and intervention within child safeguarding. Neglect can have a devastating and long-term impact on children’s lives. The Neglect...
Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE)
During October our staff and some of our volunteers took part in PLACE inspections at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust's Sunderland Royal Hospital and Sunderland Eye Infirmary and Monkwearmouth Hospital and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW)...
Phase 2 Path to Excellence - Could you help by holding a focus group? Payment available
Phase Two of Path to Excellence is looking at how hospital services in South Tyneside and Sunderland can provide the best possible care for people who need emergency hospital-based care, as well as how to best organise planned hospital care for people who need a test, scan or operation. An updated...
Integrated care system prevention research - your help needed!
Those involved in the health and care system would like your views on what wellbeing means to you and what may prevent you from looking after yourself as well as you can. They would also like to know how you think the health and care system can support you further to look after yourself. Your...
Sunderland People First Autumn newsletter
Sunderland People First have just published their Autumn 2019 Newsletter . We hope you will enjoy reading it! To find out more about Sunderland People First visit their website: http://sunderlandpeoplefirst.com/
Better Health Roadshows are coming to town!
NHS Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) vision is to achieve ‘Better Health for Sunderland’. They aim to improve the health and wellbeing of local people so they live longer with a better quality of life. They want to give people the right support to help them stay healthy and well. The...
Health leaders call on public to share their views during ‘Join Our Journey’ roadshows
Health bosses in South Tyneside, Sunderland and Durham are encouraging members of the public to get involved in a series of public engagement roadshows taking place this autumn. Beginning on Thursday 17 October, more than 30 sessions will be held at various venues across South Tyneside and...
Pallion Urgent Treatment Centre walk-around
It was decided after a consultation ' Changes to Urgent Care in Sunderland ' that Sunderland would have an Urgent Treatment Centre based in Pallion Health Centre, which is in close proximity to the Sunderland Royal Hospital Emergency Department. The Urgent Treatment Centre offers support which can...
Integrated health and care – inviting communities and individuals to have their say
In the journey towards becoming an integrated care system, a series of engagement roadshows will be taking place up, down and across our region this autumn, starting 7 October. The NHS Integrated Care System would like to hear from as many people as possible - including staff, patients, visitors,...
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) - coffee morning
Family Coffee Morning in Sunderland - on 22nd October 2019 from 10-12 am at Central Fire Station, Railway Row, Sunderland, SR1 3HE Meet other families in an informal coffee morning to chat about FASD and how it affects your child for peer to peer support from other parents, foster carers and...
We can help you find the information you need A thank you from Farmborough Court…
Here’s how our newsletter has helped one organisation in Sunderland provide excellent services. Please read this article and let us know how we can help you! In our May 2019 E-bulletin we shared information about the Lions Club Message in a bottle. Message in a Bottle helps emergency services...
Sunderland People First Summer Newsletter
Sunderland People First have just published their Summer 2019 Newsletter . We hope you will enjoy reading it! To find out more about Sunderland People First visit their website: http://sunderlandpeoplefirst.com/
Sunderland GP appointed to help City’s health transformation plans
A Sunderland GP who has worked in the City for almost ten years is set to take up an exciting new role to help transform how health and care support is delivered outside of hospital and closer to local communities. Dr Fadi Khalil is a practising GP who has worked in Sunderland since 2010 and looks...
Women's Aid Change That Lasts: Ask Me training dates released!
Sunderland is one of three national pilot sites for the Women’s Aid ‘A Change That Lasts’ pilot the aim of the pilot is to raise awareness of Domestic Abuse and part of the pilot is to train members of the community to be Community Ambassadors to be part of the ‘Ask Me’ project. The ‘community’ is...
National Glaucoma Awareness Week Sunderland Support Group
The International Glaucoma Association (IGA) in collaboration with Sunderland Eye Infirmary will be holding an event at Sunderland Eye Infirmary. The talk is free to attend and aimed at anyone affected by, or at risk of, glaucoma. See the agenda here! Glaucoma is the name given to a group of eye...
Integrated Substance Misuse Treatment and Harm Reduction Service in Sunderland (Wear Recovery) - Consultation 1st stage
Hitch Marketing is working on behalf of Sunderland City Council to carry out the consultation and to ensure an independent view. The first stage of the consultation is for us to gather the views and thoughts of stakeholders and partner organisations. This survey is the first approach we are using...
HEALTHWATCH SUNDERLAND – NEW CHAIRPERSON AND BOARD MEMBERS
Healthwatch Sunderland are a consumer voice for the people of Sunderland who use health and social care services across the city. We work with patients, service users, carers, community groups, organisations, service providers and commissioners to get the best out of local health and social care...
Message in a Bottle
What is it? Its a simple idea designed to encourage people to keep their basic personal and medical details on a standard form and in a common location – the fridge! What does it do? It saves the Emergency Services valuable time if they need to enter a property in an emergency situation. Not only...
Sunderland People First Spring Newsletter
Sunderland People First have just published their Spring 2019 Newsletter . We hope you will enjoy reading it! To find out more about Sunderland People First visit their website: http://sunderlandpeoplefirst.com/
April is Bowel Cancer Awareness month
Bowel cancer is the 4th most common cancer in the UK but If it's detected at an early stage more than 9 out of 10 people will survive it for five years or more. If you notice any of these changes, tell your GP straight away The best way to detect bowel cancer early, even before symptoms appear, is...
Patient Transport Service - change to booking
Arrangements in Sunderland, Gateshead, North Tyneside and South Tyneside have changed. North East Ambulance Service have written to let us know that they have been successful in bidding for a tender to provide the telephone booking service for the Patient Transport Service (PTS) in four Clinical...
Offer £5,200 grants to nursing students and ramp up overseas recruitment to stop NHS workforce crisis
A radical expansion of nurse training, with cost-of-living grants of £5,200 a year and a tripling in the number of people training as postgraduates, is among a set of urgent measures that a new report says are needed to prevent the health and care workforce crisis from worsening dramatically...
CQC update profiles of care services for older people in every local authority in England
How well do health and social care services in your area serve the needs of older people? Most older people, particularly those with complex needs, will receive care at some time. Their experience will often depend on how well different services work together for them, their families and carers. As...
AAA Screening
AAA stands for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm . The aorta is the main blood vessel that supplies blood to your body. It runs from your heart down through your chest and abdomen. In some people, as they get older, the wall of the aorta in the abdomen can become weak. It can then start to expand and form...
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