Forthcoming Healthy Hearts sessions

Improve your health, keep that heart beating and get a FREE pair of trainers!

Healthy Hearts is 6 completely free sessions designed to help you improve your health and gain a better understanding of what affects your body.

Healthy hearts tackles issues around weight management and healthy eating. Each two hour session runs once a week across six weeks. 

The following venues will be hosting sessions starting as follows:

Mountbatten Centre from 26th August
St. Cuthberts Centre from 29th August
St George's Business Centre from 9th Sept
Buckland Community Centre from 7th Oct
Southsea Community Hub from 21st Nov

To find out more, please contact course tutor Yvette Carr on 023 9229 6460 or at yvette.carr@learninglinks.co.uk

Put forward your views about the commissioning of local healthcare services in Portsmouth

Healthwatch Portsmouth is assisting NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) with a research project into how it consults with members of the public and on the CCG’s its priorities for the next five years.

Portsmouth CCG is a NHS organisation responsible for buying healthcare services in Portsmouth. The group is led by five local GPs who are elected to represent all the GP practices in Portsmouth. Its job is to make sure that Portsmouth residents have access to the best healthcare possible.

Healthwatch is holding a focus group on the 30 April for Portsmouth residents to meet the Healthwatch Portsmouth team and share feedback regarding Portsmouth CCG and how its work affects healthcare services in the city.

The main purpose of the focus group will be to look at:

·         How Portsmouth CCG consults with the public before changes are made to local healthcare services

·         The healthcare services that matter most to you and improvements you would like to see to existing services

·         Portsmouth CCG's priorities for the next 5 years

The team would especially like to hear the experiences of people who have been affected, good or bad, by changes to local healthcare services in the city.

Where: The Entertainment Hall, St James Hospital, Milton, Portsmouth, PO4 8LD

Date: 30 April 2014

Time: 3.00pm to 5.00pm

If you would like to attend this event you can register your attendance by clicking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/review-of-nhs-portsmouth-ccg-focus-group-event-tickets-11197033629

Healthwatch is now live!

Healthwatch is now up and running, you can get involved in strengthening the user voice in health and social care.

Our next interim board meeting is on the 3rd July at 1pm at Friendship House, all are welcome to attend.

More information at www.healthwatchportsmouth.co.uk

If you would like to find out more about Healthwatch or sign up to our network of people involved in helping service users speak up about local services please call us on 023 9397 7079.

Healthwatch Competition

***COMPETITION***

Win a £15 shopping voucher in our prize draw.

It's open to everyone (people, not business pages) who likes our page before the 20th December at 12noon.

All you have to do is come up with a creative suggestion as to how Healthwatch can best encourage more young men (up to the age of 25) in Portsmouth to get involved in influencing health and care in the City.

Sensible suggestions (!) will be entered into the draw, which will be held on the 21st December 2012 at 12noon. The winner will be notified via facebook.

Please place your entry in the comments box below this post or message us if you prefer.

Only one entry per person is valid.

(We're sorry, but employees of Learning Links, Portsmouth City Council and University of Portsmouth are not eligible to enter).

Difficulty communicating about your health and care? Sign up to Healthwatch Portsmouth!

Healthwatch Portsmouth will be the local watchdog for all health and care services in the city and will make it its business to put local people’s needs and views at the heart of all services – services that we use all the time. 

To sign up as a network member of healthwatch just fill in the form below – being a member of healthwatch is no big commitment, it just means we will keep you up to date with local services that are changing, and ask for your feedback on the services you use. 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/healthwatchportsmouth

For more information contact us on 023 9268 8508 or healthwatchportsmouth@gmail.com