News and reports

Despite blood cancer being the fifth most common cancer and most common childhood cancer, levels of symptom awareness remains low.
Blood Cancer UK have found that over 50% of adults in the UK can not name a single symptom of blood cancer. Leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma are ALL types of blood cancer. Each have different symptoms, treatments and prognoses.

Place2Be launched the first-ever Children’s Mental Health Week in 2015 to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health.

Now in its ninth year, we hope to encourage more people than ever to get involved, spread the word, and raise vital funds for children’s mental health.

Healthwatch have written a letter to NHS England to express our disappointment at the lack of progress in reviewing the legally-binding Accessible Information Standard.

Last year, together with a coalition of the UK’s leading charities, we launched the Your Care, Your Way campaign to highlight that everyone should receive healthcare in a format they can understand.

Halton residents have an opportunity to shape how technology will be used to improve access to care across the borough.

Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation. Happening every year, it’s a day for friends, families, communities, and workplaces to come together to talk, listen and change lives.

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust are delighted to announce a collaboration with long term partners Holmusk and the University of Liverpool to establish a mental health analytics and research hub to translate mental health research into results that directly benefit people.

This report highlights the public feedback received during our outreach session at Warrington Hospital on 5 January 2023

Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2023 runs from the 23rd - 29th January.

Did you know cervical cancer can be prevented? The tools are available to make cervical cancer a thing of the past. HPV vaccination, cervical screening, and treatment for cell changes can all help prevent it but we need to increase awareness and uptake.

Health chiefs in the North West have urged people to grab a ‘Jabuary’ boost to protect themselves from COVID-19 and flu amid continuing high infection rates and hospital admissions.
Hundreds of sites across the region, including general practices, pharmacies and hospital hubs, are continuing to offer first, second and autumn booster doses of the Covid vaccine throughout January.

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting for a Patient Safety Partner (PSP).

Patient Safety Partners will be actively involved in the continuing design of safer healthcare, for 8-10 hours per month.

The waiting list for routine NHS care has fallen for the first time since the pandemic began.

However, 7.19 million people are still waiting for hospital treatment, such as hip and knee replacements. This includes an estimated 1,423 people in England who have been waiting more than two years to start routine hospital treatment at the end of November.

We visited the Runcorn UTC twice, in November and December 2022, and spoke with 48 patients.

This report provides a snapshot of the experiences of those patients.