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Having a baby and the effect on your mental health
Healthwatch want to know about your experiences. Having a baby is one of the biggest life choices you can make. This can affect both the person who...
Kooth - Free, safe and anonymous online support for young people
Kooth , is a new online counselling service for children and young people aged 11-19 access to free, anonymous mental health and emotional well-being...
Exciting new GP opportunity for newly-qualified/returning doctors
Are you a GP who has qualified in the last 2 years or have recently returned to General Practice? Improving Health London are looking at motivated...
25 FREE clubs for over 65's across Southwark and Lambeth!
South London Cares' have a whopping 25 free clubs for older neighbours over 65 to get involved with across Southwark and Lambeth this October, including film nights, technology workshops and trips! There will be many different celebrations, including the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival in Brixton and a...
FREE Skin Camouflage Workshop for Skin Disease Patients
Skin Deep Behind The Mask provides informative support to skin disease sufferers and their carers alike. Skin Deep combine art, design, performance, technology, and fashion into fundraising events. On October 19th, they are holding a FREE skin camouflage workshop for people with non-infectious skin...
#ItStartsWithYou - Join the campaign!
Healthwatch England is starting it's next phase of the 'It Starts With You campaign'. Healthwatch England will publish the findings of their public polling and will be following this up with stories about how people's views have helped improve GP services. They are calling on GPs to let their...
‘Recovery’ & ‘wellbeing’ course at Blackfriars Settlement
Blackfriars Settlement have a number of exciting short-term courses starting this Autumn. For all other activities, please check their website .
Build key skills and Gain some Independence with Royal Mencap Society!
Everything The Royal Mencap Society (TRMS) do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability, working to ensure they are listened to and included. Mencap have recently launched a programme, funded by Page Recruitment, which specifically supports people with learning disabilities...
Volunteers sought for Alcohol Assertive Outreach Team
Opportunities are available in the new Lambeth / Southwark alcohol assertive outreach team. You may recall hearing about Kings College Hospital's Alcohol Assertive Outreach service for frequent hospital attenders in Lambeth and Southwark at their event in March this year. They are carrying out...
Link Age Southwark community events
Link Age Southwark are delighted to invite you to their fantastic fundraising events coming up over the next couple of months, they do hope you can make some of them. These fun events are: Swing Dance Night – 23rd September Wine Tasting – 27th September Craft Ale and Food Pairing Evening – 5th...
Become an Associate Member of King’s College Hospital
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are inviting interested voluntary and community organisations to join them as an Associate Member. If you support the hopital's local community or patients in any way, they would like to work with you. King's College Hospital has a membership of over 10,...
Do-it-yourself Happiness training programme
Our Healthier South East London is running this 8 week training programme. If you're interested in learning about what makes us happy, and how being healthier can lead to living longer, healther, more sustainable lives, than this is the course for you: Each week builds on the last helping you...
Want to join the South East London Cancer Alliance?
The Healthier South East London are inviting people who live or work in south east London to apply to join their volunteer patient and public voices, who are at the centre of shaping and informing the Our Healthier South East London programme – the local Sustainability and Transformation...
Healthwatch Southwark’s response to the final draft of NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) & Southwark Council Joint Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2017-2020
In this report you will find a link to the draft strategy online to which this report resonds to. Our feedback draws on our engagement around mental health including through our signposting role, community focus groups, engagement prior to the CQC (Care Quality Commission) inspection of SLaM (South...
NHS England consultation on guidance for CCG
NHS England is currently running a consultation on guidance for CCGs for items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care. This consultation will be open until 21 October 2017. Last year 1.1 billion prescription items were dispensed in primary care at a cost of £9.2billion. This cost...
NHS England are looking for volunteers
NHS England (London) is seeking to recruit up to six volunteers to help develop and improve London Antenatal and Newborn Screening Services. The NHS Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programmes aim to identify pregnancies and babies at increased risk of developing life threatening, life limiting or...
BME Volunteering Opportunity with SLAM
Msaada (Swahili name meaning giving back), is a volunteering programme for people from the Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) communities who want to support BME people who are living with a mental illness. Looking for a chance to give back, make a difference and gain experience? For the last seven...
New BHTA Pressure Ulcer guide
In the UK, around 400,000 individuals develop a new Pressure Ulcer annually. The cost to the NHS is in the range of £2.6 billion and this is rising all the time. The cost to the NHS of treating chronic wounds associated with Pressure Ulcers exceeds £2.6 billion per annum. Each Pressure Ulcer (PU)...
Community Arts Volunteers needed for Concert Programme
Breathe Arts Health Research (BAHR) is a social enterprise that creates, designs & delivers innovative approaches to healthcare. They are seeking volunteers to assist at their public concert programme 'Breathe Regularly'. Breathe Regularly is a series of twice weekly concerts in public spaces...
Free Wellbeing Workshops
Southwark Wellbeing Hub have 15 workshops running between now and the end of December. They're all free to anyone who lives in Southwark or who is registered with a Southwark GP. Most of them are also open to people who work or volunteer for community organisations in Southwark. Workshops include:...
CCG Report and Results on Extended Primary Care Service
In 2016/17, NHS Southwark CCG commissioned Deloitte LLP to undertake an independent evaluation of the Extended Primary Care Service (EPCS). The Extended Primary Care Service is a GP and nurse service available 8am-8pm, 7 days a week, via your GP practice. There are two sites based at The Lister in...
Patient Reps Wanted for Research Project
Researchers and clinicians at King's College London are looking for patient representatives to help with the development of an online treatment for anxiety/depression in people with long term conditions. Do you qualify? You are eligible if you are a patient with a long term condition, who have has...
National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2017
Nominate an excellent and innovative London project working to #EndHateTogether. In 2016, HEAR set up London's pan-equality Hate Crime network. It now has over 100 members, charities and community projects working to challenge Hate Crime and targeted abuse in London, across all equality streams. To...
Aviva Community Fund – Competition for community projects
Aviva Community Fund is seeking ideas for projects that will improve communities, under the categories of: Health & wellbeing, Skills for life, Inclusivity or Community support. Opening date: 12th September 2017 Closing Date: 10th October 2017 at 12pm How to enter: The application process is...
Community Southwark Research with seldom-heard groups
For the past year, Nathan Lewis, Outreach and Relationships Officer at Community Southwark, has been exploring the needs of seldom heard communities within Southwark and the organisations that support them. As a result of this, a range of different discussion events will be taking place over...
Consultation on Southwark's new Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Southwark NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Southwark Council have been developing a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy for the borough. The Strategy will set out how decision makers plan to use public money to help promote good mental wellbeing, prevent illness, and treat and...
Volunteering pilot in King's A&E
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded a grant to trial a volunteering programme for people aged over 50 in the Emergency Departments (A&E) at King's College Hospital Denmark Hill, and at Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington. This is an intensive volunteering...
Focus groups on 'self-binding' advance directives in bipolar
A team at King's College London is working on a project exploring the use of a particular type of advance directive for people with Bipolar, a 'self-binding' advance directive. This would allow individuals with bipolar to request treatment in a future episode of illness when they know, from past...
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