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30 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, May 21st, 2009 I


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Chanc|e4Life is a society-wide movement that aims to prevent people from


beebming overweight by encouraging them to eat better and move more.


Eat well Move more Live longer


NHS East Lancashire supports the Change4Ufe campaign as we understand how important it is for you and your famiiy to enjoy a iong and heaithy iife. We have a number of programmes run localiy acmss the boroughs inciuding cook and eat sessions, heaithy iifestyie courses, and waiking and cycling groups to heip you eat weii, move more; and iiveionger.


An exampie of how Change4 Life is avaiiabie to you is Hyndburn’s Cook W Eat sessions (see photo right) which are fun and free! These provide cook4iife opportunities to practice making tasty, heaithy recipes and iearniots of tips fora heaithier you. The sessions inciude information on a baianced diet and portion sizes, ideas on how to achieve your 5 A DAY and lessons in heaithy cooking methods to heip reduce fat


Taking control of yoiir health and your life in


East Lancashire Expert Patient Programme •


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The Expert Patients Programme (EPP) is a : six-week group course for anyone living with any long term health condition. The : ■ EPP aims to help you take control of your' ' health by learning new skills to manage your condition more effectively. The EPP course is nin over six weekly sessions with each session lasting two-and-a-half-hours. It is ' njn by trained tutors who are living with a long-term condition themselves, so you will be training with your peers.; This course is ; open to anyone living with one or more . long-term health conditions.-


For more information contact:' Telephone: 01282 610236. . • Email: epp@eastlancspct.nhs.uk -,


• There is also a form to apply on the PCT websitewww.eastlancspct.nhs.uk/getting-


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Self Care forYou Programme , The Self Care for You programme is a new innovative programme run by NHS East Lancashire. It is a course designed to help people live more healthily and improve their iifestyie. The course is 'made up of six - activities and each session lasts 1 ’/


2'hours. At the end of the course you will be able to


■ change unhealthy behaviours, increase your confidence, learn to manage stress and anxiety, and recognise the importance of healthy eating and exercise and manage miriorillnessesmoreeffectively.: . - ’


For more information, contact: Tel: 01282 693 415 . www.wipp.nhs.uk/self-care Or register interest in future courses in East Lancashire by: Email: communications@eastlancspct.nhs.uk POST: FREE POST nnJY-ASBJ-AKTA, NHS East Lancashire - Self-Care, Nelson, BB9SSZ . . •


Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) The Patient Advice & Liaison Service (PALS) helps patients, their families and carers


access health services and obtain infonnation about healthcare. They work with healthcare staff to solve your problems and concerns and welcome your comments and suggestions to improve iocal


, services. The PALS also serves to point you in the rightdirection if you need more.


' specialisedservices. ., - ■ ^ • PALS works closely with NHS staff . to make health services and systems work better for patients. , '


Burnley Borough Council Healthy UfestylesTeam Tel: 01282 664420.


Rossendale Leisure Trust . • Pendle Leisure Trust ■ Hyndburn Healthy LifestyleTeam .■ Tel; 01706242310.


Healthy Communities Team ' Heaithy LifestyleTeam'■ Tel: 01282 661226 or 01282661555.


Tel: 01254 356841,


nibble Valley Council Health and FitnessTeam Tel: 01200 414484


For more information contact: FREE POST RRJY-ASBJ-AKTA, NHS East Lancashire - PALS, Nelson, BBS 5SZ Telephone Helpline: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm - 0845 6031 068 ■ - : (Answering machine service available outside these hours) Text: 07884 180309 Email: PALS@eastlancspct.nhs.uk-,


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'MORE than £60 million-worth of investment has been made in local conimunity health build­ ings over the past five years. And there's a further £40 mil­


lion in the pipeline for more state-of-the-art premises which will be used by patients and their local, front-line health pro­ fessionals. / The £100 million cash injec­


tion has brought facilities "fit for the 21st Century" and has been revealed as part of NHS East Lancashire's services


'closer to home' policy. And in addition to the new


investment in Burnley, Pendle, the Ribble Valley, as well as Hyndbum and Rossendale, the primary care health provider for the area has revealed plans to


ultimately refurbish and revi­ talise a number of clinics and centres throughout the patch. Already up and running are


the St Peter's Centre in Burn­ ley; Yarnspinners in Nelson; Briercliffe Surgery in east Bum- ley; both the Accrington Pals and Acorn health centres in Hyndburn and Irwell Health Centre in Rossendale. Progress is being made to


deliver the £12 million new community hospital


in


Clitheroe, and projects in the pipeline include £20 million- worth of investment plan to build new health centres in Colne and Great Harwood. Both sites - the old Kwiksave


one adjacent to Colne town centre, and the old Albion Mill


40 years on,


WHEN Frances Jones was a young girl in Burnley, she little realised that visiting her dad at work in the local amhulance depot would spark off her o\vn career in health. . Even when she started out as a trainee


nurse a t Burnley General, she never dreamed she would one day end up with a top front-line post. But today, Frances is a thoroughly McK­


ern Matron, in charge of a team of district nurses who are regarded as the “unsung heroes” of community health provision in East Lancashire.


Now, Frances, who lives at Worsthome, •


with her husband Michael, has been hon­ oured \vith a 40-year long-service award by, NHS East Lancashire.


near Great Harwood's existing health centre - have now been purchased. Val Carman, Director of Nurs­


ing and Service Provision, said: "All this new provision is great news for patients who, we know, value having modern facilities available locally, right in the heart of their own com­ munities. "But in addition, it means


that front-line staff have decent premises in which to supply services. This really helps staff to provide safe and high quality services for patients. 'Tm so pleased that we are


replacing old facil ities with buildings and service provision fit for the 21 st Century."


'Closer to home senlces brougM


SERVICE WITH A SMILE: Outside Pendle’s Yarnspinners Health Centre,


Service Provision Director Vai Carman takes a breather before a meeting with her front-line staff in the £6.3 million building which was opened back in 2005


is a thoroughly Officially, she's approaching retireinent


age, but wants to continue for the time being "to see the job through." She can certainly look back on a succes-


ful NHS career which has seen her out there in people's own homes, in factories and in the hospital setting. She says: "It all seemed to come together .when I was asked to pilot the new Modem Matron concept. The aim is to help people stay in their homes through having the best professional nursing support. It's an important NHS principle and one which our district nurse teams take very seriously." Frances has been both a general and an


intensive care staff nurse, an industrial nurse, a midwife at Burnley's Edith Wat­


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als have clocked up nearly Hotel at C!ayUm-le-Moom. Jacqudme .Threlfall, Man- 400 years NHS service BBC North West broad- ager, Clitheroe and Acenng-


between them - and have caster Annabel Tiffin pre- ton Community Hospitals, been honoured for their, sented the awards to com- Back row (left to right^ are:


commitment. , >; : ? - munity-based hralth profes- The 'dedicated dozen,' sionals from throughout


who work at Clitheroe Hos- Hyndbim, Bui^ey, Pendle, pital and Clitheroe Health Rossendale and the Ribble Centre, serving local resi- Valley. In all, the winners dentsthroughout the Valley, clocked up more than 4,600 found themselves centre years'NHSservicethrough-


stage at the annual awards out their caiwrs. ■ Pictured (front row, from


ceremony held by the area's community health provider, NHS East Lancashire. They were commended


for their long service and given awards by NHS East


. Lancashire's Chair Kathy Reade and Chief Executive David Peat at the 'Excel­ lence In Practice' and Long-


left to right): Avril Mac- Neill, Staff Nurse. Clitheroe Health Centre's Treatment


Room; Carol Holden and Judith Greenwood, both


Registered Nurses at Ciitheroe Community Hos­


pital; Kathy Reade, Chair NHS East Lancashire; Julie


Beverley Whittaker, Staff Nurse, Clitheroe Treatment Room; Sister Jane Spur­ geon, Clitheroe Treatment


■Room; Francesca'Kerr, Rib­ ble Ward Manager, Clitheroe Hospital; Sheila Smithson, Nursing Assis­ tant, Clitheroe Hospital; Clare Ball, Pendle Ward Manager, Clitheroe Hospi­ tal; Jeanette Gudgeon, Matron Clitheroe and Accrington Community Hospitals and Joanne Carter, Staff Nurse, Clitheroe Treatment Room.


Dedicated dozen have clocked _ ' " _ - ‘ service to NHS


son Unit, not to mention her duties as a health visitor and district nurse, working mainly in Burnley and Pendleand also in the Ribble Valley. She says: “I was encouraged to get all­


round experience and that's very handy in my present role. Community nursing still gives me a big buzz. It's important to enable people to stay in their own homes where they are comfortable and where they


want to be. " I see our district nurses as unsung heroes. They don't get in the limelight very often but just get on with the vital job of looking after people on an everyday basis. They're available 24 hours a day, seven daysaweek.


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"They're first and foremost a dedicated


team of front-iine health professionals, working quietly but effectively in the com­ munity. From the feedback and comments, we know how well they are appreciated." After starting out as a cadet nurse at


Burnley General, she worked a t Lucas Aerospace, often in a shop-floor setting. Back in the hospital, she worked her way up as an intensive iare nurse, then did near­ ly 10 years as a midwife , Ultimately, she went into the community front-line as a health visitor and then a dis­ trict nurse in the Pendle area, before taking the Modern Matron role in Nelson six years ago, moving on to look after district nurses in the Ribble Valley.


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