They had approached the hospital and asked them to allow visitors at meal times rather than visiting times. They had also done work on dementia and a pilot project regarding helping older people on wards who had dementia. Age UK Wirral had given them 3 years of Comic Relief funding to work with GP to [...]
Archive for June, 2011
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 15 – Older Peoples Parliament, Southern Cross
Posted in Older Peoples Parliament, tagged Sandra Wall, Southern Cross on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 12 Merseyside Police
Posted in Area Forum, Cllr Gerry Ellis, Crime, Mersey Tunnels, Merseyside Police, Merseytravel, Wirral Council on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There was a plan to deal with sunny weather in West Kirby and Hoylake. They wanted people to come and behave and to keep antisocial behaviour down. The Have Your Say meeting only were attracting one or two, but now got a lot more. The Hoylake and West Kirby meeting had been merged, they were [...]
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 11 Merseyside Police
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In Cleveley Road (going back to May) a thief had stolen a laptop and escaped by train. Two lads had been identified who were from Liverpool. These were good stories. It was mainly people travelling into the area from the likes of Tranmere and Birkenhead that were causing the problems. He asked people with uPVC [...]
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 10 (NHS vascular review), Merseyside Police
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A member of the public asked why then wasn’t the relationship more harmonious? She answered that the vascular review had caused problems as to where it would be as there would be only one centre South of the River Mersey. Cllr Ellis said it had been a difficult baptism. She replied saying she had been [...]
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 9 – NHS (emergencies, out of hours, management)
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The member of the public answered Monday. She said it should’ve been open till 10pm. John Parr said there were fears a lot of people had that it was bad enough Monday to Friday, but if you fell ill at the weekend you were in serious trouble. Efforts had been made, but there should be [...]
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 8 – NHS (waiting times, cancelled appointments, emergencies)
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Cllr Boult said he had had a major operation with a referral to clinic in three months time. However it had been cancelled. However he had been due to see a consultant within a certain time, the appointment had been made for April 1st, but been put back by ten weeks. When it was cancelled [...]
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 8 – NHS (strokes, geriatric, single rooms, public consultation)
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The answer given was that they had become a hyperacute stroke unit. The key issue with strokes was time. They now have 24/7 access to imaging which was vital to do before thrombolytic agents were used as they had to know whether it was a clot or bleeding. There was the TIARA service for Transient [...]
West Wirral Area Forum – 29th June 2011 – Part 7 – Video (Lifeboat Musuem), NHS
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John Parr said it had been neglected for thirty years and needed something done. They could reinvigorate it into safe use by the public as a recreated space, which the museum would be happy to look after. He was hopeful to see a positive outcome. Cllr Ellis said it was a brilliant presentation and there [...]

