January 2017
Moving and Handling Training on offer for Wolverhampton carers
If you’re looking
after someone with an illness or a disability, you may need to help them move
around. This can be awkward, uncomfortable, or even dangerous for both you and
the person you care for. Learn how to move someone safely. It’s essential that
you know about safe moving and handling so you don’t hurt yourself or the
person you care for.
In this FREE moving & handling training you will learn how to
prevent injury, moving your loved one with more confidence, comfort, and ease.
In collaboration with Birmingham Carers Hub and Midland Mencap we can
offer places for Wolverhampton carers on one of training dates below. Places
are limited.
Dates available: 22 Feb, 26 Apr, 21
Jun, 19 Jul 2017 (Wednesdays) from 10am to 1.30pm. Refreshments, registration
and welcome from 10am, main session starts at 10.30am. No admittance after
10.30am.
Venue: Birmingham City University (City
South Campus a.k.a. Edgbaston Campus)
Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences
Seacole Building, Westbourne Road
Edgbaston, B15 3TN
To book: call the ‘Family
Carer Information Service’ at Midland Mencap on 0121 442 2944 or email
training@birminghamcarershub.org.uk with your contact details. This project is
funded by Birmingham City Council and managed by Midland Mencap.
Care Quality
Commission (CQC) Consultation
CQC want your views on a
number of proposals for implementing their five-year strategy. This follows the
Strategy document for 2016 to 2021 which sets out a vision for a more targeted,
responsive and collaborative approach to regulation, so that more people get
high-quality care. More information is available at:
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/consultation-use-resources-and-well-led-assessments.
A further consultation,
which will focus on how we will regulate adult social care and primary medical
services and further detail of changes we want to make to how we register
providers, will take place in Spring 2017.
If you would like to
share your views, please read and respond to the consultation at www.cqc.org.uk/nextphase. The consultation closes on Tuesday
14 February 2017.
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Blue Badge Information Surgeries
Wolverhampton Library Service and Community Support are offering Blue Badge
Information surgeries. A Community Support Worker will ensure that the form has been completed
correctly and answer any questions about the process that you might have. Booking your appointment is essential.
The sessions on offer are as follows:
Wednesfield Library, 2 Well Lane, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, WV11 1XT call 01902 556278 on Wednesdays, 11 Jan, 1 Feb, 22 Feb, 15 Mar
Warstones Library, Pinfold Grove, Penn, Wolverhampton, WV4 4PT call 01902 556275 on Wednesdays, 18 Jan, 8 Feb, 1 Mar, 22 Mar
Bilston Library, Mount Pleasant, Bilston, Wolverhampton, WV14 7LU call 01902 556253 on Wednesdays, 25 Jan, 15 Feb, 8 Mar, 29 Mar
Please call the appropriate library to book your appointment.
Integrated Urgent Care West Midlands Service
regional team
As you may be aware, we
have recently developed a new West Midlands-wide Integrated Urgent Care
Service. The new service combines NHS 111 and GP out of hours (OOH) services
across the sixteen West Midlands CCGs.
Patients now have
quicker access to the healthcare advice or service they need by dialling 111. As part of the
service, we have developed a Clinical Hub including, among others, GPs, pharmacists,
mental health practitioners and dental nurses.
The Clinical Hub enables
patients to speak to a healthcare professional directly over the phone,
removing steps from the process and providing a better, more all-round service.
Now that the service has
launched we’d like to invite members of the public to some Patient Days at the
call centre to see the Integrated Urgent Care Service first hand and learn
about how the Clinical Hub works and plays its part. This will be on Thursday, 12 January 2017
The visit will be held
at the Integrated Urgent Care Service call centre at Navigation Point, Unit 6,
Waterfront Business Park, Waterfront Way, Brierley Hill, DY5 1LX.
If you would like to
attend then email your name and telephone number to robbiepalmer@nhs.net.
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