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  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Ward Information Boards

    Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Ward Information Boards

    Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are improving the information they display at the entrances to their wards and would really like your feedback to ensure the information is useful to patients and visitors. If you’d like an opportunity to respond you can give your views in their online survey.

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  • Adult Social Care Strategy Meetings

    Adult Social Care Strategy Meetings

    Would you like to have a say in the implementation of Sheffield’s new adult social care strategy, Living The Life You Want To Live which has beeen approved by the Council’s Cooperative Executive? There are some upcoming opportunities in April to hear about the strategy, what it covers and how it has developed so far as well as to contribute to developing the first delivery plan.

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  • Putting Active Disabled People In The Picture

    Putting Active Disabled People In The Picture

    Disability Rights UK has teamed up with the Centre For Ageing Better to launch ‘Picture Yourself Active’, a new, publicly accessible image library of over 300 photos depicting older and disabled people getting active to challenge pervasive negative stereotypes. The images include some from Disability Sheffield’s Sheffield Cycling 4 All project at Hillsborough Park.

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  • #BigPowerOff Protests Becoming Bigger

    #BigPowerOff Protests Becoming Bigger

    A protest against rising energy prices spearheaded by a Sheffield-based group has now taken off nationally, with another #BigPowerOff event due to take place this Saturday 16th April at 7pm. Sheffield City Council has launched a ‘guide’ to getting financial help and advice during the current cost of living crisis with suggestions of what to do if you’re struggling to pay your energy bills.

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  • #Speak Up Grant Applications Now Open

    #Speak Up Grant Applications Now Open

    This year Sheffield Healthwatch are looking for 5 voluntary or community sector groups or organisations to work with them on projects which will help take people’s views and experiences to decision makers in Sheffield. The scheme offers fewer grants than before, but each one has more funding ( £2,000) and a greater level of support from the Sheffield Healthwatch team.

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  • Haven't got your poll card? Register to Vote now!

    Haven't got your poll card? Register to Vote now!

    Poll cards for the local elections on the 5th May have now been posted out to everyone who is registered to vote.If you haven’t received your poll card, this could mean that you haven’t registered to vote and won’t be able to have your say. You will need to register by 14th April to be able to vote.You don’t need to register to vote for every election – only if you have never registered before or have changed your address, name or nationality.

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  • Diabetes and Ramadan

    Diabetes and Ramadan

    This year Ramadan started on 2 April for 29 or 30 days and ends with Eid al-Fitr in May.Diabetes UK has produced factsheets about diabetes and Ramadan, which include fasting and managing your diabetes during the holy month. They have been developed in partnership with the Muslim Council of Britain’s Diabetes Advisory Group.

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  • Free Covid-19 Testing for Higher Risk People

    Free Covid-19 Testing for Higher Risk People

    People who have compromised immune systems still have access to free LFD testing and Covid-19 treatments such as antiviral drugs. You will be contacted via phone or email to identify you as part this group. If you haven’t been contacted by mid-April and believe you should be part of this group, contact your GP or hospital consultant.

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  • Anger Over Delays In Disabled Facilities Grants

    Anger Over Delays In Disabled Facilities Grants

    Many disabled people are having harsh challenges trying to get vital adaptations to their home, with long waits and some having to resort to crowdfunding to pay for them, an investigation has revealed. The Bureau Of Invesigative Journalism through its ‘Bureau Local’ team, which works on stories that matter to communities across the UK, has been looking into Disabled Facilities Grants.

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  • Put Your Access and Support Needs In Profile

    Put Your Access and Support Needs In Profile

    It’s irritating sometimes having to repeat your access requirements to various organisations, only to find they’ve been forgotten about, or lost, or you’ve missed something. Shaping Our Lives, has set up a free tool – the My Involvement Profile – designed by its members to record access and support needs which can then be shared with organisations before events or when you get involved in things such as focus groups.

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