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Thousands of patients supported to improve their health and wellbeing

North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) is celebrating the success of a health and wellbeing initiative which has reached thousands of patients across the North West in the last 18 months.

In October 2017, NWAS launched a campaign to raise awareness of essential health services and share useful wellbeing information with patients using its Patient Transport Service (PTS), which takes people to and from routine appointments.

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Source: North West Ambulance Service
https://www.nwas.nhs.uk/news/north-west-ambulance-service-supports-thousands-of-patients-to-improve-their-health-and-wellbeing/

Confidence and trust in hospital staff high but overall improvements in people’s inpatient experience have stalled

Findings from the Care Quality Commissions (CQC’s) latest annual survey of people who stayed as an inpatient in hospital show that most people had confidence in the doctors and nurses treating them and felt that staff answered their questions clearly.

However, across the majority of questions asked in the survey there has been no improvement since it was last carried out, and this year’s results show an increase in those reporting lengthy delays, greater dissatisfaction with the amount of information provided when leaving hospital, and those who felt a lack of involvement in their care.

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Source: Care Quality Commission
https://healthwatchwirral.co.uk/confidence-and-trust-in-hospital-staff-high-but-overall-improvements-in-peoples-inpatient-experience-have-stalled/

Local healthcare professionals talk reproductive health and preventing unplanned pregnancies

Over 70 local healthcare professionals came together to talk reproductive health and unplanned pregnancies in Wirral. The event brought together sexual health nurses, health visitors, midwives, gynaecologists, school nurses and women’s health specialists.

Co-ordinated and facilitated by Sexual Health Wirral and NHS Wirral CCG, the aim of the event was to raise awareness of the benefits of planning pregnancy for baby, mum and the entire family.

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Source: Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
https://healthwatchwirral.co.uk/local-healthcare-professionals-talk-reproductive-health-and-preventing-unplanned-pregnancies/

Wirral carers deliver more than half a million hours of care every week

Latest figures show that 26.5% of Wirral’s estimated 40,000 carers self-reported at least 50 hours of weekly care work. This amounts to approximately more than 537,000 hours of unpaid work.

The 2018 figures were released during National Carers Week, 10 – 16 June, as Wirral’s care services, partners and local charities, raise awareness of the vital work that carers do for the community.

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Source: Wirral View
https://wirralview.com/news/wirral-carers-deliver-more-half-million-hours-care-every-week

Healthwatch Wirral's Independent Advocacy Support

If you are unhappy about any aspect of NHS care or treatment you or others have received and would like to make a complaint, we can offer support through our Independent Advocacy Support service.

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Source: Healthwatch Wirral
https://healthwatchwirral.co.uk/self-help

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