Our new social prescribing hub, Flourish Wellbeing, is the first of its kind on the Wirral. Its aim is to provide guidance and support to local communities in need. The hub hopes to tackle health inequalities across the region.
The hub was launched in Liscard on the top floor of Victoria Central Health Care. Dame Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey, officially opened the hub last month. She said, “Flourish Wellbeing Hub is the first social prescribing wellbeing hub in Wirral.
The Hub brings together a range of excellent community and voluntary sector organisations and offers wrap-around services that will help people improve their health and wellbeing. I look forward to seeing the Hub develop in the coming months.”
Justice Minister, Lord Bellamy, who has supported the project, said, “Access to targeted and joined-up services as early as possible can make a huge difference to people when they are most in need of a helping hand. This hub will offer much-needed legal support to people in the Wirral in one easy-to-access space, reflecting the range of challenges they may be facing at times of difficulty.”
Wirral Ways will begin seeing clients in the new space this month, providing a welcoming, non-clinical environment. Our housing team will also be holding drop-in sessions at the hub. The rest of the service will also utilise the new space.
Wirral Ways' Deputy Service Manager, Gerry Pangalis, was excited about the new space and the doors it will open for our service users. It will provide an opportunity for support services to work more closely together with each other and the NHS. Through a collaborative approach to support, it is hoped that more people can be helped.
Nightingales Café has also opened a new site as part of the hub, serving hot and cold drinks as well as healthy lunches to staff and patients.
Flourish Wellbeing Hub was set up by Change Grow Live's Wirral Ways service, Citizens Advice Wirral, Wirral Mind, Involve Northwest, and Age UK Wirral. It was funded by NHS Property Services with additional funding from the Ministry of Justice.