Providing health and wellbeing services in the heart of the community
Friday, 9 August 2024
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The Halton Health Hub
The Halton Health Hub is an equitable and accessible clinical outpatient facility led by Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals and supported by local partners from which a range of health, care and wellbeing services are delivered at the heart of the community.
Preventative services such as Halton Borough Council’s smoking cessation and weight management services operate alongside acute hospital therapies – including dietetics and musculoskeletal – optometry and orthoptics services.
Thanks to national NHS funding, the hub has now expanded to host a variety of diagnostic services including respiratory clinics and sleep studies as part of Runcorn Community Diagnostic Centre.
Alongside these, the hub also offers an active travel and wellbeing service, provided by a local community interest company and funded as a pilot programme by Liverpool City Region.
The aim of this project is to encourage residents to better engage with their wellbeing through a variety of means, with focused promotion of local walking and cycling opportunities, and connections to other social prescribing offers.
The hub, part-funded through the Liverpool City Region Towns Fund grant, opened in November 2022 and is located within Runcorn Shopping City.
With bus stops and free parking nearby, this location has enhanced its accessibility, especially for residents living in the most deprived wards in the borough, with the hub seeing more than 2,000 patients each month.