In the summer, we welcomed a new Chair for our Maternity Voices Partnership: Chloe Cadby. The role of Chair is a busy one, and we’re happy to say Chloe has thrown herself into it over the last four months! The Maternity Voices Partnership is made up of maternity professionals (like midwives and doctors), and service …
Did you know you’re three times more likely to quit with the help of a Stop Smoking service? The Solihull Stop Smoking service is now part of the Solihull Lifestyle Service, so it’s FREE and easy to access if you live in Solihull, or have a Solihull GP. How does it work? If you’d like …
We’ve been running Workplace Wellbeing services for a couple of years now, but right now we’re delivering one of our largest Workplace Wellbeing commissions yet: a series of events for Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust. Gateway’s Wellbeing Advisers and Trainers have been working in a number of locations around the city, delivering one-to-one advice sessions …
Last week we were very pleased to find out we’ve won a top prize for supporting our staff in caring roles. The Carer Friendly Business Awards Birmingham are part of the Working for Carers programme by Forward Carers, an organisation developed to make a real difference to the lives of people in carer roles, and …
We’re moving offices on Thursday so from 12pm we will be without phone lines but we hope we’ll be back up and running again within a few hours and certainly by the end of the afternoon. You can still email us info@gatewayfs.org and if you have any individual staff members mobile numbers please continue to …
Over the last few months we’ve been blogging about the work our Straight Talking Peer Educators do in schools, drawing on their own experiences to educate young people about early parenthood and helping them learn about making healthy choices. But the scheme has a lot of benefits for the Peer Educators themselves, too. That’s because …
After a period of illness and a series of surgeries, Karen (pictured above, left) found it hard to bounce back to her old self. Although her physical health was generally improving, she was still feeling low. “I’d always managed to maintain a good weight before my illness,” Karen says, “but even though I’d recovered from …
You might have thought that our Straight Talking Peer Educators would be having a break over the summer, but they’re busier than ever! That’s because the Straight Talking programme isn’t just for schools — our Peer Educators also deliver to any youth groups or clubs where young people get together. Our Peer Educators are young …
You might already know that our Social Prescribing service, Healthy Futures, had to stop taking referrals at the end of last year, due to lack of funds. You might also know that Healthy Futures is desperately needed in Birmingham. People who need support are relying on their GP or local A&E because they don’t know …
We’re pleased to say the South Birmingham Long Term Conditions Group, which we started supporting in 2014, is still going strong. The meetings, facilitated by Gateway and funded by the NHS South Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), have gone from being every three months to every month. Gateway supports the group committee to host a …