PSS NHS Health Trainer Luke Forgione to be based at Barnsley Football Club

From the 1st of November 2011 Barnsley Health Trainer Service was brought under one contract with PSS working with Barnsley’s NHS to deliver Barnsley’s Health Trainers programme.

As from the 28th February 2012, Health Trainer Luke Forgione will be based at Barnsley Football Club working in partnership with the Trust. The clubs name and vast appeal to the community is seen as the perfect tool to promote healthy lifestyle messages within the local community.

To read the full story, Click Here.



Fri 16 March 2012 - 14:23 by Steve_M
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The Anfield Health Literacy Project

The Anfield Health Literacy Project was funded as part of the Liverpool PCT involvement with the Department of Health Community Grants and WHO Healthy Cities initiative. The overall purpose of the project was to work with local people in the Anfield ward to sustainably raise health literacy by providing community members with health awareness training, community knowledge and dedicated support from the project workers to then become a source of health signposting within their own community.

Working closely with the Liverpool Health Trainer Team and the Community Health Ambassador Team, the Project aimed to tackle many issues including the improvement of Health Literacy of local people, increasing the participation of local people in health events and services, and the recruitment of 10 Health Champions.

You can read all about the Project by downloading the Evaluation Report HERE (3.2MB - PDF).


Mon 05 March 2012 - 16:44 by Steve_M
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Expressions in Dementia - See the Pictures !

To help publicise Dementia Awareness Week in 2011, PSS partnered with Bluecoat in Liverpool to run a series of art workshops for people with Dementia.

The sessions were run by Liverpool artist Bernadette O'Toole along with PSS social work students and resulted in a series of paintings that were displayed in an official exhibition at Liverpool Hope University.

The exhibition was called 'Expressions Through Dementia', and the pictures are now available for viewing in the website gallery. We hope you enjoy them.

To see them CLICK HERE.



Wed 29 February 2012 - 15:07 by Steve_M
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