With the announcement of the Public Health Grant, Cllr Frazer Lake, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet member for Health and Social Care, explains how this funding is used. “There’s been a lot of talk recently about the Council’s finances and how the budget is managed. One of the key elements in how we support residents, and … Read more
With the much-needed white paper on health disparities now looking very likely to be delayed due to uncertainty over who the next prime minister will be, Liverpool’s Cabinet Member for Social Care and Health, Cllr Frazer Lake tells us about his hopes for the report and why urgent action and investment is needed to close … Read more
Liverpool’s Health Protection Board (HPB) met this week to review the COVID-19 situation, with free testing no longer available for most people and new national guidance about when to isolate from others being published. Covid infections continue to circulate at a very high level in Liverpool and remain a real risk to many of us. … Read more
If you have found the last few months hard going and are looking for some extra support, a new health and wellbeing service might be helpful to you, your friends or family. The Life Rooms has teamed up with Liverpool’s Public Health team to launch a new initiative to support individuals and communities with their … Read more
With the launch of Liverpool’s brand new sexual and reproductive health service, Advanced Public Health Practitioner, James Woolgar tells us what this means for the city and his hopes for the future. “Sexual and reproductive health is such an important part of our everyday lives, but in the past, services haven’t always been what we … Read more
Here to explain is Kevin Peacock, the Chief Executive of St Andrew’s Community Network (home of North Liverpool Foodbank). Kevin is also the co-Chair of the Liverpool Food Insecurity Task Group and a trustee of the ‘Feeding Liverpool’ charity. The man is clearly hungry. I watch as he unwraps six snack-size blocks of cheese and … Read more
Liverpool is to launch its Good Food Plan on Thursday 7 October – a strategy to create a city where everyone can eat good food and address key issues related to the food we eat. Phase One of the Good Food Plan is about tackling the immediate and urgent challenges that the city is facing … Read more
A brand new app has launched, giving tips and advice to parents about how to make the most of their child’s early years. Developed by Liverpool City Council’s Public Health team, 24 Magic Months offers support with the first two years of a child’s life – a crucial time for growing, learning and development. … Read more
With the Government recently outlining their plan for the roadmap out of lockdown, many control measures will no longer be a legal requirement from 19 July. Collective statement from the Liverpool Health Protection Board In light of the current high rates of Covid-19 infection in Liverpool, coupled with a lower vaccine uptake compared to other … Read more
The team behind the Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care project – which is helping support people with medical conditions to live at home safely – have won a prestigious national award. Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care was the first supported health trial of its kind in Europe, establishing a 5G network to support much needed health technologies in … Read more
We became part of the DCMS Testbed & Trials Programme in March 2018 delivering the Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care Testbed. This project highlighted the barrier that digital poverty had on both care providers and residents who would benefit from technology in the home, but did not have access to affordable connectivity. Our testbed … Read more
Mayor Joe Anderson reflects on the opportunity that lockdown presented him and how it’s never too late to make a difference. “As someone who was classed as a shielded person, and told I was at a much higher risk of not being able to fight off COVID-19 if I became infected, I found it a … Read more
Test and Trace is a new service developed by the NHS to help people who develop symptoms of Coronavirus to be tested quickly. The service will also trace all recent close contacts of anyone who tests positive. The service is an added safety net when you start going out and about. This service will let … Read more
Dental services are in place across the city – and the region – for patients and the public during the lockdown. All high street dental and orthodontic practices are able to give advice, guidanceand prescriptions, which you can collect from your local pharmacy. People with dental problems are being asked to contact their dental practice … Read more
Liverpool’s Health and Wellbeing Board meeting on coronavirus finished as the city begins a partial shutdown including public buildings like libraries and leisure centres to temporarily shut or introduce restricted opening times.
ADHD –or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to give it its full name – is a medical condition which affects many people. In recent years it has become better understood, but how far have we really come? In this episode we’re looking how it affects those concerned, and their families. We ask if children – and … Read more
Liverpool City Council is showing its commitment to helping to protect vulnerable residents and service users from the flu, by embarking on a programme to administer vaccinations to 500 staff who work on the frontline in social care, or who provide essential services. Flu Vaccine Overview Clinics started last week, ahead of the launch of … Read more
(By John Ashton and Zara Quigg — First appeared in The BMJ) At a time of Brexit induced policy paralysis, it seems that only one matter can break through the news headlines. Daily reports of murders and injuries caused by rising knife crime in London and the other cities in the UK have galvanised a call for … Read more
Keith Marshall, Licensing and Regulatory Enforcement Officer for LCC Keith Marshall, Licensing and Regulatory Enforcement Officer, was working in St George’s Hall 10 years ago, when staff were invited to have their blood pressure taken during a health initiative. “I remember thinking I’d get mine checked for a bit of a laugh. I didn’t have any … Read more
Jayne Rodgers is on a mission…
And that mission is to get more people in Liverpool geared up to the tandem benefits of two-wheeled transport and the city’s great open spaces.