People across Wirral are invited to take part in Wirral’s biggest ever conversation about health, starting on Monday, January 11.
The team from Healthy Wirral, made up of health and social care professionals working towards more integrated services, want as many people as possible to tell them what matters to them about health and health and social care in Wirral.
The feedback will be used to shape health and social care services around the needs of all people in the community, wherever they live, and whatever their needs.
Dr Pete Naylor, Chair of Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group, which commissions services for Wirral funded by the NHS, said: ‘This is a chance for everyone to get involved to let us know what really matters to them. We want to ensure that we really listen and put people at the heart of everything we do.
‘The conversation starts now, and is the beginning of a much bigger exercise to involve everyone in Wirral in how we put people at the centre of our services, and support each other to stay well.’
Cllr Chris Jones, Wirral’s Cabinet Member for Adult Health and Social Care, said: ‘Supporting people to stay well and stay living independently is one of our key pledges over the next five years, and this is a great opportunity for Wirral people to help drive this work forward; from how our IT systems work, to how we communicate, and how well we measure how our health services are really delivering what matters to Wirral. I would urge everyone who cares about the health and wellbeing of our communities – and ourselves – to take part.’
There will be plenty of opportunities for people to get involved. The Healthy Wirral team will be running more than 40 workshops in partnership with Wirral’s voluntary and community sector, throughout January.
The general public are invited to take part in a range of workshops to help us find out “What Matters to Wirral” in general, and in relation to specific health services:
What Matters to Wirral? workshops
Thursday 21st January 6pm – 8pm, Old Market House, Birkenhead, CH41 5AL
Wednesday 27th January 6pm – 8pm, Old Market House, Birkenhead, CH41 5AL
Friday 29th January 10am – 12 noon, Old Market House, Birkenhead, CH41 5AL
Designing Urgent and Emergency Care workshop
Tuesday 19th January 3.30pm – 5.30pm, Old Market House, Birkenhead, CH41 5AL
Designing Diabetes support services workshop
23rd January 11.00am – 1.30pm, St Catherine’s Church, Higher Tranmere (Children and families), CH42 0LQ
27th January 3.00pm – 5.30pm, The Lauries Centre, Birkenhead, CH41 6EY (Adults)
If you’d like to come to a workshop, please let the Healthy Wirral team know by emailing
If you can’t make it to a workshop, you can also visit www.healthywirral.org.uk and complete a short ‘What Matters to Wirral?’ online survey.
To get involved, visit www.healthywirral.org.uk, follow @healthy_wirral on Twitter, and like ‘Healthy Wirral’ on Facebook.
