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NewsletterSpring 2016 ISSUE 30
Halton Clinical Commissioning Group
Welcome to our
01928 580182 0151 257 9673or01928 580182 0151 257 9673or
Spring 2016 Newsletter
For more information contact
Halton Carers Centre on
If you haven't had chance to visit our lovely new Carers Centre at
62/64 Church Street Runcorn WA7 1HD please come along
and have a look round. Our official opening will be on May
4th 2016, when carers, our funders and local councillors will
be invited to celebrate the new, more suitable hub for
carers. A big thanks to Halton Borough Council, Halton's
Clinical Commissioning Group, Mersey Ward and Runcorn's
Town Team who all contributed towards the cost of the
refurbishment. Your support is much appreciated!
We've produced a brilliant new Carers Information Book which covers
all the services we provide, how we can support you and what your
rights are as a carer. The Information Book will be provided to all new
carers. Registered carers can request a copy if they wish.
As the hub for carers' services in Halton, we are thrilled to see the
results of the Which? Report and the results of our own carers' annual
survey detailed on page two.
Halton Carers'
Centre Manager
CarlCarl Harris
Registered Charity No: 1124493
Halton Carers’ Centre
action help advice
FORMER CARERS' GROUPIf your caring role has ended due to bereavement or the person you care for goes into a home
and you are not part of their Care Plan you can remain with the Carers' Centre for twelve
months. You can also join our Former Carers Group which is organised by Beryl and Marjorie.
The group meets on a monthly basis and all group members were once feeling like you are
now but have managed to restart their social lives after being a carer. They enjoy visits to the
theatre, lunch and evenings out, day trips and bi-monthly get-togethers. For more
information contact the Carers' Centre.
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Which? Area is Best for Carers?
Halton Carers Centre staff – delivering our best for unpaid carers in Halton.
Consumer champion Which? ranked Halton as the best in England for carers to find out the
information they need, according to a report released in February 2016.
They reported that only 15 per cent of residents in the borough had difficulty accessing advice
and support. Halton was followed by the London Borough of Redbridge (17%) with neighbours St
Helens (18%) in the top-three areas.
The Information came from a Which? analysis of most recent data from the NHS Health and
Social Care Information Centre. In addition, Carers' Quality of Life score and Carers' Social
Contact score were both better than national and regional averages. The data was released as
Which? launched a free information hub for unpaid carers. The hub is designed to provide advice
for unpaid carers on a wide range of topics which can be found on
http://www.which.co.uk/elderly-care/for-carers/being-a-carer
AAHalton!
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A big thank you to all the carers who took part in our annual survey! Rather than ask everyone the
same questions we took a random sample of 1,000 carers from our database. We're delighted that
more than 250 of you responded. The survey produced some fascinating facts:
Halton Carers Centre 2015 Survey Results
Carers' WeekThis year Carers' Week is focussing on building Carer Friendly
Communities to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges
carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and
communities throughout the UK.
Within Halton we will be encouraging a Carer Friendly Community at our “Carers Shop” at
Runcorn Shopping Centre. So pop into the “Carers Shop” during Carers' Week between
10am and 4pm Monday to Saturday for help and information from Halton Carers Centre and
other carer- related organisations. A similar service will be available at Widnes Market on
Wednesday 8th June.
We are also offering professionals and carers in Halton an opportunity to have a “Tour n Talk”
when we will show you around our Carers Centre in Runcorn and provide an overview of our
services from Monday 6th June – Thursday 9th June at either 11am or 2pm. If you
would be interested in accessing the “Tour n Talk” please contact the Carers'
Centre to book in.
Nearly 62% of our carers were caring for
more than 50 hours per week (compared
with 30% of the general carer
population).
More than three-quarters of
respondents said breaks were important
to them.
45% said their health had worsened as a
result of their caring role.
More than half of our carers did not have
time to participate in leisure activities.
Just under two-fifths of carers said caring
had affected their work. Nearly half of
these had been forced to give up work
entirely.
70% of respondents had been caring for
more than 5 years.
We were pleased that the majority of respondents were satisfied or
very satisfied with our services, but there is always more we can do.
A major concern was changes to legislation and how these might
affect benefits to carers and cared for people. You also gave us plenty
of ideas for activities in our new Centre.
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Once again, thank you forparticipating and we lookforward to putting yourfeedback into practice!
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Thanks to our partnership with Widnes Vikings
Sport Health & Wellbeing Foundation we have
been provided with 20 tickets for all Widnes Viking
home games at the Select Security Stadium.
Forthcoming Widnes Vikings home matches: Kick Off
Widnes Vikings v's -
Widnes Vikings v's -
Widnes Vikings v's -
Widnes Vikings v's -
If you wish to attend a game please contact the Carers Centre and we will allocate tickets
based on need and priority, in relation to your caring role.
Warrington Wolves Friday 21st April 7pm
Wakefield Wildcats Friday 29th April 8pm
Huddersfield Giants Sunday 29th May 3pm
Wigan Warriors Thursday 16th June 8pm
Carers registered with us can receive a Leisure Card which entitles them to a reduction in admission
charges for a wide range of services. This includes swimming and museums, entry reductions at sports
injury clinic and Reel cinema in Widnes.
Free tickets to
Widnes VikingsHome Games!
Have you applied for your Halton Leisure Card?
Kingsway Leisure Centre
Brookvale Recreation Centre
Runcorn Swimming Pool
Catalyst Museum
Norton Priory Museum andGardens
Upton Community Centre
(40% off sports)
(40% off sports)
(40% off sports)
(discounted admission to £2.50)
(50% off ticket)
(40% off sports)
Stadium Fitness
Halton Libraries
Hypnotherapy Horizons
Runcorn Linnets FC
Cineworld, Runcorn
Co-operative Trave
(40% off sports)
atNaughton Fields(10% discount)
(£2 discount on adult tickets forhome league games)
student prices every day exceptTuesday
l5% discount on European
Holidays
Boydells
Runcorn Ski Centre
Lowerhouse Lane Depot
Reel Cinema, Widnes
Silver Blades Ice Rink
10% off sports equipmentwhen spending £10 or over
adults pay junior price
discount on MOT and 10%discount on servicing and
repairs
£5.25 adult tickets every dayexcept Tue & Wed
Widnes
Where can I use my leisure card?
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House of Memories Buddy DayWednesday 27 April or Thursday 28 April 2016liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
@house_memories
Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 1DG
To book please email [email protected] or call 0151 478 4240 with your
contact details and preferred date.
Has your life been touched by dementia?
We are inviting to come
along to the Museum of Liverpool to find out more about dementia and the resources
and activities we can provide to support you and your loved ones.
The 'Buddy' day, which is specifically designed for family carers, will include high-quality
theatrical experiences, a chance to try out our innovative
and a museum memory tour. This event is
Doors open at 10am for a 10.30am start, with and a prompt
2.30pm finish.
carers, family members, friends and community volunteers
free to attend.
free lunch provided
My House of Memories app
House of Memories Buddy programme has been partly funded by a private bequest.
Spotlight on
Dementia
We now run a Dementia Carers' Support Group every fortnight on Monday evenings
6.30pm – 8pm. The group is aimed for carers who are caring for someone with dementia
to share experiences, make new friends, and gather information or to simply just to get
out and have a break and a cuppa! If you are interested in attending this group please
contact Cathy Harper on
or email
01928 580182
Carers Centre's Dementia Group!
FREE ENTRY
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A service which helps families cope day-to-day with dementia has seen such a success in Knowsley
that it is now expanding into Halton.
The Admiral Nurse Service, which is provided by specialist dementia nurses, will be based in the
community and the nurses will work with local families to ensure they are better able to understand
and cope with the changes which can occur with dementia. They will work with the family to make
informed decisions about their future needs, to enable the family to stay together for as long as
possible.
Admiral Nurses play a unique role in care management by joining up the different parts of the health
and social care system, and help address the needs of family carers and people with dementia in a
coordinated way.
The Admiral Nurse Service is delivered by 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and works in
partnership with Dementia UK which governs and monitors the service. The service has been running
in Knowsley since 2011.
Margaret Dempsey, aged 83, lives in Knowsley and cares for her husband, Alf, who is 85. She said: “My
admiral nurse is Jackie; she first came in my door as a nurse, but went out of my door a friend. The
help and advice she gave me about dementia was second to none.
At first I couldn't understand why I needed support when it was my husband who was ill, but I soon
realised the demands of looking after someone with dementia on your own can make you ill.
Jackie helped me to understand the illness so that I could cope better. She became my comfort
blanket at a time when I needed it most. I'm very grateful to her.”
Norah Flood, Clinical Director at 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are
delighted this service is expanding to Halton. Our admiral nurses do an excellent job. They work hand-
in-hand with families, helping them cope with the fear, uncertainty and difficult everyday reality of
dementia.”
Hilda Hayo, Chief Admiral Nurse and CEO of Dementia UK, said: “The expansion of the Admiral Nurse
Service to Halton is testament to the excellent support that our admiral nurses give to families living
with dementia. We strive to give the help of an admiral nurse to everyone who needs one and are
pleased to be able to support more families in both Halton and Knowsley.”
To access the service, you must be caring for a family member with
dementia and be registered with a Halton GP. Speak to your GP or
healthcare professional for details, or you can self-refer by
calling the admiral nurse team directly on 01928 753162.
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Spotlight on
DementiaNew dementia service for Halton
For more information
contact
Fern Shields
Communications Officer
on
or email
01925 664034
Spotlight on
Dementia
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This free session will provide people with the
awareness and information about dementia and
focus on improving the inclusion and quality of life
for people with dementia. The workshop will also
include an Introduction to Alzheimer's disease and
Other Dementias; Activities to Encourage
Engagement; Techniques to Manage Behaviour
and the skills, knowledge and tools to support
people to help individuals, with dementia, to live
well in the community.
Alzheimer's Training& Dementia Family Workshop
Spotlight on
Dementia
Fundraising for Halton Carers Centre
Sue Armes and Eula Hersey from Home Instead Senior Care Frodsham, Runcorn and Widnes are
walking 54 miles along the Camino, a pilgrimage route in Northern Spain from Santiago de
Compostela to the end of the world, Finisterre, to raise money for Halton Carers Centre.
Eula explains what their task will be as follows:
“In June 2016, we will be walking 54 miles/ 87 kilometres over four days to raise much needed
funds for Halton Carers Centre (to help and support carers of people with dementia). We arrive in
Santiago on Saturday 4 June and will be attending the Pilgrim's mass on the Sunday at the
Cathedral before hitting the road on the Monday.
We have worked hard at mapping out our route and will be carrying what we need on our backs
although we have cheated slightly and booked cheap hotel rooms rather than staying in the
pilgrim hostels – we're a bit too old for that. We are hoping to keep people up to date on the walk
via Facebook and Twitter and will be proudly wearing our Halton Carers Centre t-shirts. We are
currently fundraising and asking people to sponsor us and / or buy a raffle ticket. We
also ask you all to spread the word of our walk. We have paid for our flights and
hotels ourselves so every penny raised goes directly to the charities.”
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Time: 1pm – 3.30pm
28th April 2016
Brunswick House, Water Street,
Runcorn WA7 1DG
Date:
Venue:
Refreshments will be provided.Limited spaces available - if you would like tobook a place, or have any further questions,please call Eula on 01928 733020 / 07825913168
The theme of the next Halton Dementia Action Alliance event will be advanced care
planning and end of life. Although an emotionally charged subject that for some can be
difficult to think about, the importance of talking about it cannot be underestimated.
Advanced care planning enables you to make choices and decisions about your future
care, in case there is a time when you cannot make these decisions for yourself, and
make arrangements so that your family have power to act on your behalf if you wish
them to do. For more information about this upcoming event, please contact Halton
Carers Centre or [email protected]
Halton Dementia Action Alliance Event 23rd June Halton Lea Library
Scope's Face 2 Face is a free befriending service, offering one to one
emotional support for parents of disabled children or those with
additional needs. We also provide a wide range of free events across
Halton, from family fun days, parent information workshops and regular
support coffee mornings.
We are grateful to have received funding from the Big Lottery to grow and expand the valuable
work Face 2 Face Halton provides across the area. Thanks to this funding, we are able to
continue on with our Befriending, and in fact we will be recruiting for new Parent Befrienders in
the near future, with our next training course due to start in September.
A Face 2 Face Befriender is a parent who also has a child with a disability or additional need and
has been trained to offer emotional support. All our Befrienders are local volunteers who have
been carefully selected to ensure they will be able to listen sensitively and understand how a
parent is feeling. Befriending provides an opportunity for parents to talk honestly about how
they feel to someone who can really understand and not judge them. If they need other kinds of
support our Befrienders can signpost to other services that can help.
Our Sleep Solutions team will also be introducing sleep support across Halton in the near future
to raise awareness, skills and understanding around sleep difficulties specifically related to
children and young people with additional support needs, more news to follow soon on this
exciting development!
I hope to get chance to meet you very soon in my role as Halton Coordinator! If you would like to
find out more about Face 2 Face, take a look at or please
don't hesitate to get in touch with me by email at or telephone
www.facebook.com/face2facehalton
07767 346724.
Scope - Face 2 Face Halton
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AINING TRAINING TRAINING TRAINING TRAINING TRAINING TRAINING TRAINI
Halton
Carers'
Centre
Training
19th & 26th May
10am - 12pm
Mental
Health
Monday 23 May
10am - 2pm
PositiveBehavioural
Support Services
Positive Behavioural Support Services(PBSS) will be providing training at62/64 Church St from 10.00am – 2.00pm. The course is aimed at those
who care for a person with a learning disability and/or autism, whosebehaviour proves challenging to others. The course will:
Talk about the types of behavior's that challenge parents/carers
Explain how PBSS assess challenging behavior's
Look at how the behaviour of others affects challenging behaviour
Look at why a person's motivation is important to understand behaviour
Look at the reasons why a person does what they do (functions of behaviour)
Share some example interventions
Give the audience chance to create an intervention plan
If you wish to attend a PBSS course we are running 3 separate courses as follows:
For more information or to book on the course please e mail ortelephone
23rd May 2016, 12th Sep 2016, and 5th Dec 2016.
[email protected] 580182.
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Carers of people with dementia have told us that sometimes otherfamily members struggle to understand the condition and often don'tknow how they can support the carer and the person with dementia.Therefore, as part of Dementia Awareness Week Halton Carers Centre is holding a
We will provide family focused information soyoung people and adults (including registered carers and people with dementia) are allinvited. Dementia organisations from Halton will be there and we will also providelunch and a quiet room for people to escape to!
To register your interest contact Cathy Harper onor telephone
Family Dementia Awareness Day on Saturday 21 May 2016 at Select StadiumLowerhouse Lane Widnes from 11 - 3.
[email protected] 01928 580182.
st
Save the Date! Family Dementia Awareness Day!
How we can support dementia in HaltonSaturday
21st May11am - 3pm
Coffee Group
Carers’ Services
Podiatry Service£5 charge
for repeat
appointments
Wednesday 10am - 4pmSaturday 10am - 1pm
Halton Carers’ Centre,
62/64 Church St, Runcorn
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Peelhouse Family Centre Widnes
Therapy Appointments
Reflexology only - Thursday 10am - 2pm
Halton Carers’ Centre,
62/64 Church St, Runcorn
Saturday 10am - 1pm
Peelhouse Family Centre WidnesWednesday 10am - 1pm
www.haltoncarers.co.uk
Charges for missed appointments
We require 24 hours' notice for a cancellation so that we can reallocate the appointment.
, we will charge you for the cost of the appointment. This will be £25.00 for a
chiropody appointment. Any carers who do not pay the charge will be unable to access
any further appointments.
Otherwise
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3 Wednesday in the month 10am - 12pm
3 Thursday in the month 12pm - 2pm
rd
rd
Trinity Church, Peelhouse Lane, Widnes
Churchill Hall, Cooper Street, Runcorn
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Carers' CafeAll Mental Health Carers! Please come and join us at the Carer's Café!
This will be held on the last Wednesday of each month in the
family room on Weaver Ward, Brooker Centre 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Don't miss a great opportunity to meet other
carers and share information and experiences
or just come along for a drink and a sit down.
Wednesday
29June
Wednesday
27July
FREErefreshments!
Wednesday
25May
Wednesday
27April
GP Support -Windmill Hill and Castlefields Surgery
If you are a carer and live in Windmill Hill you can meet up with Carer Support
Worker Lucia Urquhart every fortnight on Fridays at Windmill Hill GP Practice from
9.30-11.30. You don't have to be a patient at the practice to obtain information,
advice and support from Lu. If you know of any carers who aren't registered with
the Carers Centre they can be registered by Lu. She will next be at the GP Practice
on 15th April, then fortnightly on the following dates: April 29th, May 13th &
27th, June 10th & 24th.
We also hold a fortnightly outreach surgery on Mondays at Castlefields GP
Practice. The next date for outreach is 18th April then fortnightly on the
following dates: May 2nd, 16th & 30th, June 13th & 30th.
May June
AdultCarers
DayTrips
A family of four (2 adults, 2 children)
on all trips bar Cheshire Ice Cream
Factory £20, Cheshire Ice Cream
Factory £15 for a family of four
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Saturday 14th May
Tuesday 31 May
Burwardsley
Greenacres Farm
Cheshire Ice Cream Farm/
Candle Factory
£6 pp carer/cared for
£5 per child
and £8 per guest
cost £6 pc/cf
£3 per child
and £8 per guest
Thursday 16 June
9:30 – 4pm
Saturday 25 June
9:30 – 4pm
th
th
Llandudno
Towyn Market
cost £8pc/cf£5 per child
and £10 per guest
cost £8pc/cf£5 per child
and £10 per guest
Compliments & Complaints
If any of your details have changed, particularly your name, address or telephone number.
Please return this slip to:
You can also ring to change your details, or email [email protected]
Freepost Halton Carers' Centre, 62 Church Street, Runcorn, WA7
1LD.
01928 580 182
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Please let us know what you think about our newsletter. Do
you have any suggestions for articles? Would you like to
have a go at writing an article yourself?
Contact the Carers' Centre on 01928 580 182
If you wish to look at our website remember
the details are: www.haltoncarers.co.uk
Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Telephone Number:
Please tick if you want your details removed from our database
PLEASE KEEP US INFORMED HELP US TO KEEP YOUR INFORMATION UPDATED
Anything we should know?
If your details have changed since you registered with us, such as you have become ill,
you start to care for more than one person, the health of the person you care for changes
or you are a young carer who has changed school please let us know. It's also important
that we have your correct e mail address, especially if this is the way you would prefer us
to contact you. We deal with many personalised break funding applications via e mail and
send our newsletters out this way in order to keep costs low.
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Although Halton Carers' Centre aims to provide the highest standard of
service as possible, some time we may fall short of our standards. If this
happens please let us know, as hearing your views helps us to improve
the services we provide. You can complain or compliment us via manager
Carl Harris HCC Manager e mail [email protected] or tel
01928 580182 or Chair of the Trustee Board Mike Shepherd at Halton Carers Centre
