the calderdale voice issue 10 apr - may 2015
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Discover where walking can take you this May.
Every May, Living Streets encourages people to take to their
feet and feel the benefits of walking.
www.livingstreets.org.uk/national-walking-month
Welcome to the April - May edition of
The Calderdale Voice.
For this issue of the magazine we have
a lot of exciting news from the
Healthwatch Calderdale team including
the date of our ‘Your Life, Your Choice’
event that we are running in
partnership with local organisation Lead
the Way. More details on that can be
found on page 2.
We also have some national awareness
campaigns that are happening over April
or May like National Walking Month.
This campaign is all about getting out
walking as much as you can this May
and, as our cover photo suggests, it’s
just at the right time to see the
bluebells!
Emma Worsley, The Calderdale Voice Editor
In spring, the Earth’s axis is tilted toward the sun, increasing the number of daylight
hours and bringing warmer weather.
A big thank you to Rachael Crawshaw.
The day will include:
Information Stalls about local services Workshops And much more!
To find out more or register your interest for this event, please ring 01422 431099 or email [email protected]
Healthwatch is the new Consumer Champion,
or Watchdog, for health and social care. The
aim of local Healthwatch will be to give
citizens and communities a stronger voice to
influence and challenge how health and
social care services are provided locally.
Healthwatch Calderdale is an independent
body that will raise your views and opinions
on Health & Social Care in Calderdale and to
help make your voices heard.
The feedback we receive from local
residents allows us to understand what the
issues are from the people that use the
services. Your views will help us identify
areas that need to be looked into further.
Please get in touch by calling 01422 431099
or you can email us on
You can also give us your feedback by using
the ’Talk to Us’ page on our website
www.healthwatchcalderdale.co.uk
Healthwatch Calderdale is a membership
organisation. We make sure that all our
members are kept up to date with
everything related to Health and Social
Care at both a local and national level.
Becoming a member is free of charge and
is open to anyone who lives in Calderdale
and/or receives substantial health and
social care services from any provider
within Calderdale. It is also open to
voluntary and community groups who
supports users of health and social care
services.
To become a member, please email
Different countries celebrate Easter in different ways. In Sweden they do not
have an Easter Bunny, they have an Easter Wizard!
Healthwatch Calderdale, in partnership
with an organisation called Healthcare
Publications, has developed a Health &
Social Care Support Directory for 2015
The Directory provides local residents
with information and contact details for
a range of Calderdale Health & Social
Care services including GP Surgeries and
Residential Care.
The Health & Social Care Support
Directory is available online on the
Healthwatch Calderdale Website:
www.healthwatchcalderdale.co.uk
Hard Copies are also available. Please
call 01422 431099 to request a copy.
For most of us, keeping a healthy mouth
means two things, regular brushing and
visiting our dentist. But there are a range of
other issues that relate to enjoying good oral
health, from seeing a dentist regularly to
getting care from hospital dentists.
Having good oral health helps you stay
healthy generally. Problems with our mouth
can result in pain, infection, tooth loss, time
off school and work and even effects the way
we feel about ourselves and stops us enjoying
activities with our friends and family.
The Yorkshire and The Humber Public Health
England Centre Dental Public Health Team
have completed a piece of work which looks
at what the key issues and challenges in
improving oral health are. They are keen to
understand whether you think it’s correct
and if not what’s missing.
This is a really good opportunity to tell the
people who are responsible for NHS dental
services and community programmes what
things are really like, and to help change
them for the better.
For more information and take part in the
survey, please visit
www.healthwatchcalderdale.co.uk
Healthwatch Calderdale has recently
launched a new radio advertisement
campaign that will be played at every
Calderdale Council gym facility.
The 20 second advert will be played
every hour at the 6 gym facilities based
across Calderdale to introduce
Healthwatch Calderdale, the work we do
and how to get involved.
Emma Worsley, our Communications
Worker said
“This is a fantastic opportunity to
broaden awareness of Healthwatch
Calderdale. Everyone has had experience
of local Health & Social Care services at
some point in their lives. This new
radio ad campaign will help us reach an
even wider audience and give them the
chance to have a say about their local
services.”
In September 2014, Healthwatch Calderdale
staff and volunteers spent a week at
Calderdale Royal Hospital conducting
face-to-face surveys with people using the
hospital car parks. The survey was sparked
by a number of concerns raised with us
around the difficulties in parking on the
hospital site. Over 600 people were
surveyed and the results have now been
published in a report that is available to
download on our website.
In response to the report’s findings, the
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation
Trust has put in place a number of plans to
improve car parking at the site, including
Working with the highways agency who
are assisting the hospital in remodelling
some of the car park layouts
A review of the FULL/Spaces signage to
ensure it gives an accurate reading
Better signage on car parking charges
To read the report, please visit the Task & Finish group tab on our website
www.healthwatchcalderdale.co.uk
In German, ‘Frühjahrsmüdigkeit’ means
Spring tiredness.
The Healthwatch Calderdale website offers a number of different services:
Send us your feedback using the ‘Talk to Us’ page
Sign up to be a member of Healthwatch Calderdale
Find out about our volunteering opportunities
Search for local Health & Social Care services
Keep up to date with news from Healthwatch
Find out where your nearest Healthwatch drop in session is
Watch videos from Healthwatch England
See our Healthwatch Calderdale Twitter feed
Read the Healthwatch Calderdale Pledge
Find out about Healthwatch Calderdale local meetings
www.healthwatchcalderdale.co.uk
Twitter @hwcalderdale
Facebook Healthwatch Calderdale
If you find a double-yolked egg on Easter,
it is a sign of good luck
Walking Football has become increasingly
popular and is suitable for people who
may have mobility problems.
Benefits of Walking football include:
Psychological reward & satisfaction
Balanced Levels of stress & exertion
Promotes long-term enthusiasm for
exercise
The sessions are an informal drop in
session, where anybody can turn up and
put a team together. Walking Football is
age limitless, which means any age can
participate due to the rules stating no
walking or physical contact.
For more information please contact Neil
Ross on 07974077143 or alternatively on
Take Control is a supported self management
course for people who are living with long
term pain. The focus is on increasing the
knowledge of your condition and its impact
on you. The course aims to give you the
confidence to use a range of tools and
techniques to be able to manage your pain
more effectively.
The focus of this course is to encourage and
support people to work in partnership with
their health professionals so that any possible
improvements in your quality of life can be
made.
The Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS
Foundation Trust (CHFT) Take Control of your
Pain course is open to anyone living in the
Calderdale and Huddersfield area living with
a long term pain condition.
The provision of courses covering other
conditions for example multiple sclerosis and
falls is currently being explored.
If you would like to know more about a
course or to book a place, please contact the
Supported Self Management Team on
01422 224225.
Wednesday Time Out is a new men’s
group at the Halifax Rugby Union Club.
Starting on Wednesday 22nd April, this
new men’s group offers Dominoes, Indoor
Kurling, Cards, Indoor Golf, Jenga, Board
Games and good company!
The group will meet on Wednesdays fro
10am—12pm at Halifax Rugby Union Club,
Ovenden, HX2 8AR (Entrance on Keighley
Rd next to Moorside Garage).
Wednesday Time Out offers a free taster
session and then it is just £2 a week to
come along. Price also includes tea/
coffee and biscuits.
Because sometimes you just fancy a brew
and something to do…
This is a 2.5 hour session is open to
anyone with a cancer diagnosis. It is
facilitated by volunteers who are trained
beauty consultants or freelance make-up
artists, who all offer their time and
expertise.
Attendees are asked to bring their own
makeup and the experts will guide them
through a 10 step skincare and make up
regime.
Please contact Ruth Henderson for more
details or to book a place on the next
course.
2015 dates:
Briar Court Hotel
Halifax Road, Huddersfield, HD3 3NT
Wednesday 10th June
Wednesday 11th November
www.lookgoodfeelbetter.co.uk
01422 222 709 or email
Parents4Parents is a befriending service,
providing you with free emotional and
practical support at the time of diagnosis,
awaiting diagnosis, or when you are going
through a difficult time at any stage of
your child’s life.
Trained parent volunteers, who
themselves have a child with additional
needs, can help you as they know what it
is like coping with a new diagnosis and
learning how to navigate the system.
A befriender can either visit you at home
or you can agree another convenient
location. It is an informal and flexible
arrangement designed to suit you.
For more information about the project
please call Tracie on 01422 343090, or
email her at
Find your skills
Discover your strengths
Explore your potential to volunteer
Recognise yourself
HOPE – the Calderdale Recovery College is
offering lots of different recovery focused
courses that could help you to boost your
work skills, improve your health and
wellbeing or get involved in local initiatives.
HOPE provides educational courses that can
help people on their recovery journey.
Recovery is a personal journey! It’s about
building lives, creating opportunities, taking
control and instilling hope.
Our educational courses have been designed
in partnership with people who have
experience of mental and physical health
problems – to offer everyone the chance to
learn a new skill, build on your strengths or
become an expert in your own self care.
For more details about the courses
available, please visit
www.calderdalerecoverycollege.co.uk
A smile. It’s one of the most powerful and
emotive gestures we can do. Smiling shows
confidence and has been proved to have a
positive effect on relationships, careers and
overall image.
Oral health charity the British Dental Health
Foundation is delighted to announce the
return of National Smile Month for 2015.
The UK’s largest oral health campaign is set
to take place between 18 May and 18 June,
and aims to make a significant impact
improving oral health at grassroots level and
educating on the importance of oral hygiene.
In its simplest form, National Smile
Month promotes three key messages at the
heart of good oral health; brush your teeth
last thing at night and at least one other
time during the day with a fluoride
toothpaste, cut down on how often you eat
sugary foods and drinks, and visit the dentist
regularly, as often as they recommend.
For more information, please visit
www.nationalsmilemonth.org
Parkinson's Awareness Week 2015 (20-26
April) is all about getting everyone to be a
whole lot friendlier. Will you 'up your
friendly'?
Holding open a door or a little patience in
a long queue can brighten up
someone's day. But for people with
Parkinson's, it can make all the
difference.
Parkinson’s is a degenerative neurological
condition which robs people of control of
their bodies, for which there currently is
no cure. The main symptoms of the
condition are tremor, slowness of
movement and rigidity – and these can
only get worse over time.
To find out more about Parkinson
Awareness Week, please visit
www.parkinsons.org.uk
Dying Matters aims to help people talk
more openly about death and to make
plans for the end of life.
The theme of Dying Matters Awareness
Week, which runs from 18-24 May 2015,
is 'Talk, Plan, Live'.
Talking about dying may not always
be easy, but it can help you to make
the most of life and to support those
you care about.
Don’t leave it too late to Plan ahead
– and remember to tell people about
your wishes.
Thinking and talking about dying can
help you to Live well and to make
the most of life until the very end.
For more information, please visit
www.dyingmatters.org
Mental Health Awareness Week 2015 will
take place from 11-17 May on the topic of
Mindfulness.
Mindfulness is paying attention to the present
moment, without getting stuck in the past or
worrying about the future.
If you haven’t heard of mindfulness, you may
be surprised to find out that you have
probably been mindful at some point in your
life.
When you’re going for a walk, breathing and
enjoying the fresh air or maybe painting and
find out hours have passed…when you’re so
absorbed in an activity you pay it full
attention, that’s being mindful.
At the heart of it, Mindfulness is a mind-body
based training that helps people observe the
way they think and feel about their
experiences, whether good or bad. This can
really change the way you manage and react
to stressful situations, giving you a valuable
tool to stay mentally healthy.
For more information, please visit
www.mentalhealth.org.uk
The earliest known use of the term
‘spring-cleaning’ was in 1857
At one time, spring cleaning was a much
needed chore after a long, cold Winter of
coal, oil and wood burning. These heat sources would leave homes dusty,
dirty and covered with soot and ash.
Nowadays, a thorough spring clean is the perfect way to shake off the months
of cold, dark Winter and declutter your homes in preparation for the return
of Spring.
A survey into UK household cleaning conducted by promotionalcodes.org.uk
has also revealed the calorie burning benefits of applying some elbow grease
into your housework. The findings revealed that:
Vacuuming for 1 hour burns approx 238 calories
Dusting for 2 hours burns approx 340 calories
Scrubbing the floor for 1 hour burns approx 258 calories
Climbing up and down from the loft for 20 minutes burns approx 181 calories
Turning mattresses and making beds for 1 hour burns approx 136 calories
Moving heavy furniture for 2 hours burns approx 476 calories
Cleaning external doors for 1 hour burns approx 204 calories
Deep cleaning bathrooms for 1 hour burns approx 258 calories
