News

Good Environments Matter: Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE)

On 11th October Healthwatch Staff and Volunteers joined other assessors to support Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with their assessment. Healthwatch Wirral spent time listening to patients and assessing different wards and areas on the hospital site. PLACE is about the non-clinical environment covering food, cleanliness, privacy, dignity and wellbeing, condition, appearance and […]

12 October 2023

Team WCHC Awards 2023!

On Friday 6 October Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (WCHC) welcomed 300 colleagues, partners and sponsors to celebrate and recognise the amazing work of Team WCHC across Wirral, Cheshire East, St Helens and Knowsley. The Pavilion Suite at Chester Racecourse was the backdrop for this special occasion which celebrated the outstanding care, […]

09 October 2023

Office of the Public Guardian’s (OPG) Your Voice, Your Decision Campaign

A lasting power of attorney gives you a voice and protects your decisions. They are helpful for everyone over the age of 18.  This legal document makes it easier for the people you trust to support you when you need it most.  It means you keep control of certain decisions by choosing who you want […]

04 October 2023

Connecting Health Communities Update – September 2023

On 26th September 2023, we officially launched the ‘how-to guide’ for Connecting Health Communities for older people in Wirral*; important action research led by older people and carers in Wirral. The event highlighted to commissioners and practitioners how they can be more inclusive when delivering or commissioning services in Wirral so that older people and carers who need […]

28 September 2023

New SEND Local Offer website launched

A message from Wirral Council re SENDLO: We are delighted to share with you that today (18/9/23) we have launched the new and improved SEND Local Offer website. SENDLO, as it is called, has been co-produced by a big pool of stakeholders and benefited from having SEND Parents and Carers and our fabulous SEND young […]

18 September 2023

Wirral University Teaching Hospital Maternity Services rated as good, with areas of outstanding practice, by the CQC

An update from Sir David Henshaw, Chair and Janelle Holmes, Chief Executive  Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust We are pleased to share the fantastic news that our Maternity Services at Arrowe Park and the Seacombe Birth Centre in Wallasey have been rated as good, with areas of outstanding practice, by the CQC – in reports out yesterday, […]

26 August 2023