Stockport Council’s Public Health team are working with local employers and community groups across the borough to raise awareness of how people can reduce their risk of cancer and how to try to spot cancer early. The team have already visited coffee mornings, libraries, mosques and job centres … [Read more...]
News for: Health
New community diagnostic centre to open this year for patients in Stockport
Stockport residents will get quicker diagnosis and treatment of health conditions including heart disease and cancer when a new centre opens later this year. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and are opening a new Community Diagnostic … [Read more...]
Stockport businesses invited to Menopause Awareness Training
Stockport businesses are being invited to learn how they can support colleagues going through menopause via a free training project being led by mental health charity, Stockport and District Mind and other Mind branches across Greater Manchester. Research conduct prior to the coronavirus pandemic … [Read more...]
New confidence walks launch to help more Stockport residents build up their activity levels
The council and its partners, Life Leisure and Age UK Stockport, are launching three new Confidence Walks sessions to help people in Stockport with long-term health conditions build back their activity levels. Building on the success of Brinnington and Avondale leisure centre classes, which see … [Read more...]
Stockport Parenting Team first in country to receive new ‘invest in Play’ support award
The specialist Parenting Team in Stockport have become the first in the country to receive accreditation in a new parenting programme ‘invest in Play’. The team have been awarded as the first UK invest in Play (iiP) Level 4 Facilitators following an independent assessment from organisers of the … [Read more...]
Campaign highlights role of social enterprise urgent healthcare providers
A campaign to highlight the vital role of urgent healthcare social enterprise providers, including Stockport's Mastercall, in supporting the NHS through winter pressures and beyond has been launched. UHUK – the body that represents a partnership of the providers who cover 64% of the UK population … [Read more...]
Latest milestone reached in construction of Stepping Hill Hospital’s new emergency care campus
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and building contractors Tilbury Douglas have marked the latest milestone in the construction of new emergency and urgent care facilities at Stepping Hill Hospital. A light switch-on ceremony took place to celebrate completion of the new Rapid Assessment Unit in the … [Read more...]
Stockport NHS shares advice for accessing healthcare this winter
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is urging the public to remember to choose the treatment which is right for them and keep Stepping Hill Hospital’s emergency department (A&E) services for those patients who most need them. People in vulnerable groups are also being asked to get their … [Read more...]
Plaster sculpture brings festive cheer to Stepping Hill orthopaedic patients
Orthopaedic technicians at Stepping Hill Hospital have brought festive cheer to the department's waiting room and constructed a Christmas Wallace and Gromit scene from left-over and waste materials from making plaster casts. Wallace, Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and villainous penguin Feathers McGraw … [Read more...]
Top mark of quality for Stockport cancer care
Outpatient cancer car at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport have received the top rating for patient care following an independent inspection. The hospital’s Laurel Suite oncology chemotherapy services received the Quality Mark from The Christie, which is an international leader in cancer care … [Read more...]
Gorvins to host menopause seminar
Stockport based Gorvins Solicitors are inviting fellow Stockport businesses and their teams to attend a free breakfast seminar: ‘Menopause and the Workplace’. Gorvins' seminar will focus on the key points related to the responsibilities businesses have to support colleagues experiencing the … [Read more...]
New digital platform wins award for improving orthopaedic care in Stockport
A digital platform with Stockport NHS input has won a national award for helping improve care for orthopaedic patients across Greater Manchester. The ‘myrecovery’ platform, delivered by Greater Manchester Orthopaedic Alliance (GMOA) clinicians, received the ‘Innovation’ award from the National … [Read more...]
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