Your May Shropshire Health & Wellbeing update

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Shropshire Health and Wellbeing e-Newsletter

Welcome to this May 2018 Shropshire Health & Wellbeing e-Newsletter. This e-Newsletter is for everyone interested in health and wellbeing in the county.

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Walking football team lend support for men’s health screening service

Members of the Shrewsbury Walking Football Club for players over the age of 55, have been raising awareness of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme offered by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH).

The team leading the AAA screening programme, based at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, is offering free screening for men aged over 65 who are at most risk of AAAs - a swelling in the aorta which can be fatal if not detected early.

The Club which operates in partnership with Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin attracts an average of 34 players every week, meeting at Monkmoor Recreation Ground in Shrewsbury. Members of the walking football team were urged to go along to a screening session by one player who took part in the programme resulting in 15 men putting their names forward.

Kevin Moore, Director of Operations at Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin, said: “The walking footballers are a great support network for each other. It is often difficult to engage with men about health-related issues so we were delighted to hear that so many of the players had gone along to the AAA screening offered free of charge by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH).”

Jess Smith, AAA Programme Coordinator at SaTH, said: “Over 200 older men in Shropshire have been diagnosed with AAA over the past 4 years so it is really important to make men aware of the screening programme. Working in partnership with the Shrewsbury Walking Football Club and local charities such as Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin enables us to reach those people who are most at risk.”

The AAA screening takes place within local GP practices at both the Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal Hospitals, as well as other locations. It is made possible thanks to the League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital who kindly donated the equipment.

For further details about the AAA screening programme please contact The AAA Screening Team on 01743 261048 or email: stwaaascreening@sath.nhs.uk

Anyone interested in joining the football club can get further information from Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin on 01743 233123.

Local people to shape the future of local hospital services in public consultation

The transformation of local hospital services is now in the hands of local people with the launch today, 30 May 2018, of the 14-week Future Fit public consultation.

Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are asking for the views of people across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales on the following two options:

Option1: The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital becomes an Emergency Care site and the Princess Royal Hospital becomes a Planned Care site

(This is the CCGs’ preferred option)

Option 2: The Princess Royal Hospital becomes an Emergency Care site and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital becomes a Planned Care site

Under either option, both hospitals would have an Urgent Care Centre that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. where patients would receive care for illnesses and injuries that are not life or limb-threatening but require urgent attention.

Having a single Emergency Care site would mean that specialist doctors can treat the most serious cases in a dedicated emergency department, which is proven to be safer, provide better results for patients and reduce the amount of time people have to stay in hospital. Having a dedicated Planned Care site would mean that patients will wait less time for their appointments and beds would be protected for planned operations, meaning that is highly unlikely operations will be cancelled due to emergency admissions. Under either option, the proposals mean that the county will keep the full range of services already offered with high quality, state-of-the-art care for patients available at two vibrant local hospitals.

Dr Simon Freeman, Accountable Officer, NHS Shropshire CCG said: “Over the last four and a half years, we’ve listened to what local people have told us about the services and care they expect us to offer at the two hospitals in the future. We understand people’s frustration at the time it has taken to reach this point. However, we are now urging people to take the opportunity to formally have their say, so that we can consider their views and any changes we may need to make to our proposed plans before making any decisions.”

Mr David Evans, Chief Officer, NHS Telford & Wrekin CCG, said: “A formal public consultation is the way the NHS has to seek people’s views on significant changes to services. Over the next 14 weeks we will be working hard to make sure that people understand the issues we need to solve and the proposed changes we need to hear their views on. It’s important that people share with us what the options mean for them and what we need to consider putting in place or changing so that they can receive the best possible care in the future.”

To help explain the proposed changes and give local people the chance to find out more, the CCGs have developed a wide range of consultation materials, videos, a new website and are arranging and attending events and meetings in public, including eight public exhibitions.

Materials include a full consultation document, a summary document, Easy Read versions, Word and large print versions. All these materials, along with answers to the most frequently asked questions, videos and an online survey, are available to view at a new website: www.nhsfuturefit.org Paper copies of the consultation documents will also be made available at both hospitals and at public and community venues across the area.

The eight public exhibitions will allow people to drop in anytime from 3.30pm to 7.30pm, meet doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff, ask questions and find out more about the proposals.

There will also be a series of pop-up style roadshows at community and public venues and the CCGs will be attending a range of meetings and events providing regular updates and answering questions. All meetings and events will be publicised on the website www.nhsfuturefit.org and in the local media.

There are several ways you can take part in the consultation:

Fill out our survey online on our website www.nhsfuturefit.org
Complete the survey, which is available in the consultation documents and post it free of charge to FREEPOST NHS FF CONSULTATION
Write to us at: FREEPOST NHS FF CONSULTATION
Email us: nhsfuturefit@nhs.net
Call us to request materials: 0300 3000 903 (24-hour answer machine)
Follow us on social media
Twitter: @NHSFutureFit
Facebook: facebook.com/nhsff

Future Fit – Have your say. Public exhibition events:

Updates from our Partners

Volunteer

To find out about the volunteering activities which have been going on across Shropshire's Great Outdoors take a look at the webpage http://www.shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk/volunteering-outdoors/

If you are interested in volunteering or to find out more about our volunteering opportunities please visit our webpage, call on 01743 255957 or email .

For all the latest news from The Shrewsbury & Telford Hospitals click here.

For the latest news from Healthwatch Shropshire, click here

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Health and Wellbeing Board - Next Meeting:

The next public Health and Wellbeing Board meeting will be held on the 5th July, 2018 starting at 010:30am at Shirehall in Shrewsbury.

The agenda and relevant papers will become available on the Health and Wellbeing webpage prior to the meeting. Please click here to access previous meeting agendas

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