Warm Hubs and cost of living crisis

As the energy crisis continues to bite, and temperatures stay below freezing, warm hubs are becoming more and more popular in the community. Please find a list below of those local to the practice.

Community Cafe – St Hildeburgh’s Church – Hoylake 

Come along to the community café every Friday – stay as long as you want. Bring a good book, your newspaper or perhaps your knitting or work. Enjoy something to eat and drink in a warm space.

Telephone: 0151 632 5339 or Email: parishofhoylake@gmail.com

Winter Warm Hub St Bridget’s Centre West Kirby

Winter Warm Wednesdays at St Bridget’s Centre. They are open every Wednesday from 8.30am to 3pm during these colder months offering a warm space, a warm welcome and warm drinks and food, all are welcome to come along.

Telephone: 0151 625 2739 or Email: office@stbridgetschurch.org.uk

Warm Hub – Christ Church Barnston with St Michael’s Pensby 

Recognising the challenge of rising heating costs, St Michael’s will be open as a warm hub for our community during the colder part of the day. Drop in for a tea or coffee and a warm welcome, somewhere to relax or to work, a place to connect with others or to simply be.

Telephone: 0151 648 2404 or Email: cecelia@barnston.info

Warm Space – St Andrew’s URC Meols 

Are you worried about heating costs? Would you like some company? St Andrew’s United Reformed Church in Meols has a warm space where you can come to enjoy refreshments in a warm and comfortable space every Wednesday afternoon.

Young at Heart – St John the Baptist – Meols

Young at Heart is held at St John the Baptist in Meols. Young at Heart is a warm space with quizzes, games, jigsaws, company, tea, coffee and cake. No Charge – target group older adults. This is on the second Monday in the month.

Telephone: 0151 632 1661 or Email: grossiter1956@outlook.com

Wirral InfoBank

Wirral InfoBank is Wirral’s directory of community groups, services, and activities that can support your health and wellbeing. Areas they can help with are available on the website at Wirral InfoBank.

Bereavement Support

Losing a loved one is a difficult enough time without having to worry about what to do next.

The following link offers all the information you will need – click here.

To make an appointment with the registrar’s office – click here.

Our local registrar is located at:

Wirral Register Office
Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square (front entrance, ground level)
Birkenhead
CH41 5BR

Phone: 0151 606 2020
Email: rbdm@wirral.gov.uk

Cruse Bereavement Care

They provide one-to-one support and bereavement support groups to residents of the Wirral area aged 18 and over

Telephone: 0151 645 6604

Alternatively, contact Cruse Bereavement Care on the following email: wirralarea@cruse.org.uk

Website: https://www.cruse.org.uk/

Digital Health Apps

ORCHA

Digital health apps can be an engaging and empowering way for people to take an active role in their care, but they also come with a risk. With over 350,000 health apps available and only 20% meeting safety standards, how can we know if an app is safe to use?

The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) is dedicated to advancing digital health through the assessment and evaluation of health and care apps. An assessment involves asking questions about an app, or a digital health product, to see if it meets standards in these five main domains:

• Data and privacy – How safe your private information is, and what happens to it
• Professional assurance and clinical safety – If a health or care professional thinks it’s safe and can support your health, and if there is evidence to support that
• Usability and accessibility – How easy it is to use for the age and ability of a person
• Interoperability – How well it can connect with an existing system
• Technical security and stability – How well it works and if it can be hacked

The ORCHA website below provides a library of heath apps that have met these safety standards.

Cheshire & Merseyside

Lower My Drinking

The Lower My Drinking app can help you work out why you drink.

It also offers practical steps that you can add into your weekly routine to help lower your drinking such as:

– regularly reviewing your drinking habits

– comparing your drinking levels every week to see how you score

– using motivational techniques to help you on your journey to healthier drinking

– setting yourself alerts to help you on your way to staying on top of your drinking levels

Download the Lower Your Drinking app on Google Play

Download the Lower Your Drinking app from the App Store

Stop Smoking

Support and advice to help you stop smoking

If you – or someone you care about – live or work in Wirral and want to stop smoking, A Better Life Wirral can help. You can contact them directly.

A Better Life work locally with the NHS to provide all the advice, support and therapy you need to help you break the habit, and most people who come to us manage to give up within 12 weeks – for good.

There are no waiting times, the service is FREE (including your nicotine replacement therapy) and you can even refer yourself.

Begin your journey to a smokefree you today.

Contact today –✆ 0151 541 5656

Merseyside Society for Deaf People

Merseyside Society for Deaf People provide a guiding hand to support and promote independent living, and as an Ambassador for change that will allow Deaf, Deaf Blind and Hard of Hearing People to access the services they desire, without barriers to hinder their development and contribution to society.

To access their website, click here.

Tel: 0151 649 8194

Hearing Link UK

Hearing Link UK is a Hearing Loss Charity that is a part of Hearing dogs for deaf people and offers a wide variety of services including what to do and how to describe hearing loss, causes, tests, hearing aid, protection, implants and anything you would like to know or need regarding hearing loss. They offer self-help videos online regarding hearing loss, helpful hours where meetings and events are set up where other people with hearing loss can learn and connect with others. There is plenty of advice regarding this on their website.

The link below will take you to their website which can help with any query you may have regarding hearing loss.

Hearing Link Services – UK Hearing Loss Charity

Relay UK

Relay UK is a company that offers services for deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired people, and supports with the latest app technology. They provide the opportunity to use an assistant to read certain messages for you and aid conversation.

If interested and to learn more about this service, please use the link below.

Relay UK – homepage | Relay UK