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Dying Matters Week is the 6th-12th May. This year’s theme is ‘The way we talk about Dying Matters’, focuses on the language that we use, and conversations we have, around death and dying – specifically between healthcare professionals and patients, their carers and their families.

Being able to use a car as a driver or passenger is invaluable – especially if you have restricted mobility or a disability.

Patients across Cheshire and Merseyside are being asked to plan ahead for the May bank holiday weekend (Saturday 4 May – Monday 6 May) by ordering any repeat prescriptions they might need early.

Health chiefs are urging parents, guardians and families across the North West to ensure their children are up to date with their routine childhood immunisations, this World Immunisation Week (24 -30 April).

Engaging Communities Solutions (CIC) is contracted by Halton Borough Council to deliver Healthwatch Halton. Individuals and organisations have the right to express their views about the performance of Healthwatch Halton and the way in which it conducts its business.

NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) are looking for two Patient and Public Voices Partners (PPVPs) to join the NIA governance groups, to help ensure, with other members, that the voices and perspectives of patients and carers remain central to the NIA core mission and in turn to the national innovation landscape.

People aged 75 years and older, residents in care homes for older people, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system will be offered a dose of COVID-19 vaccine this spring.

The theme of this years Stress Awareness Month is #LittleByLittle and highlights the transformative impact of consistent, small positive actions on over-all wellbeing.
The Stress Management Society, explain how even the smallest steps taken each day towards self-care and stress reduction can mean significant improvements in mental health over time.

Our April meeting will be reviewing the work over the past year and the priorities for the coming year.

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced that NHS prescription charges will increase on 1 May 2024.

It's important that deaf and hard-of-hearing people can get information in an accessible way. But feedback suggests not all services are complying with key legislation.

This report highlights the public feedback received during our outreach sessions at Whiston Hospital Hospital in December 2023, January 2024 and February 2024.