Health Projects & Services
As well as our community projects and services, we provide initiatives specifically for health across Wirral, such as supporting the Urgent Treatment Centre at Arrowe Park Hospital, delivering prehabilitation for both diabetes and cancer and looking at how to improve women’s health. Discover more about these great services, below.
Macmillan Integrated Personalised Care
Involving Macmillan Cancer Support, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH), and One Wirral CIC. This innovative project aims to transform cancer care on the Wirral by focusing on integrated and personalised support for cancer patients.
Diabetes Prehabilitation
Prehabilitation is the practice of enhancing a patient’s functional capacity before surgery, with the aim of improving post-operative outcomes. Prehabilitation has shown improvements in length of stay, post-operative pain, and complications.
Cancer Prehabilitation
One Wirral’s Cancer Prehabilitation Service supports people diagnosed with cancer to get physically and mentally fit before surgery or treatment. Prehabilitation enables people with cancer to reduce their surgical stress response and optimise their physiological function to aid their recovery and improve their quality-of-life post treatment. The benefits can be seen in as little as two weeks.
Urgent Treatment Centre
We are part of the team that provides GP services, at the Urgent treatment centre (UTC) at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral. Our GPs offer urgent appointments 12 hours a day, Monday to Friday. The patient always comes first, and as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP), the NHS’ aim is to ensure patients get the care they need, fast, and to relieve pressure on A&E departments.
NHS Flexible Staff Pools Framework
In 2022, StaffBox joined the Flexible Pools framework, which allows a variety of healthcare professionals such as bank, freelance and locum, to work in a flexible way, within their own schedules. Staffbox is one of only 8 tools on the framework.
Women’s Health Network
As a response to the publication of the women’s health strategy, our team identified the need to start a conversation on a more local scale. A workshop was hosted by One Wirral as an opportunity to bring together people and organisations together who have an interest in improving women’s health in Wirral.
Diabetes Education Review
There are over 21,000 people with diabetes in Wirral. Their long-term condition means that they will all have an increased risk of heart attacks, stroke, cancer, sight loss, nerve damage, kidney problems and other complications.
