Previous exercises

You can find out about our previous exercises where we have involved residents and partners in our work by selecting the links below. We also publish case studies of how we use your views to inform our work.


Big Chat 6

Date Exercise Ended - Thursday, June 16, 2016

This Big Chat brought people together to talk about the challenges faced by the local NHS and what we might do to address them to make services more efficient and effective.


Community services

Date Exercise Ended - Saturday, April 30, 2016

We reviewed our local community services during the early part of 2016 and we asked residents for their views and experiences. Community services is the collective name for a wide range of healthcare that is often delivered in clinics and other community venues.


Macmillan information hubs

Date Exercise Ended - Friday, April 22, 2016

We are planning to set up four Macmillan cancer information 'hubs' in south Sefton and we would like to hear your views about where they should be.


Personal health budgets

Date Exercise Ended - Monday, February 29, 2016

We began to design a new Sefton wide policy in 2015 that sets out our approach to offering residents a personal health budget, or PHB. During February 2016 we worked with Sefton Carers Centre to gain views and comments from eligible residents about our planned approach to introducing our new policy.


Big Chat 5

Date Exercise Ended - Thursday, September 10, 2015

We combined this Big Chat with our annual review event on Thursday 10 September 2015. It was a chance for people to hear about our performance and achievements during 2014-2015, as well as giving their views about some of our key areas of work in the year ahead. Copies of our annual report and accounts were available for people to take away. Looking to the future, people heard about our Shaping Sefton programme and our plans to transform services - particularly community services.


Community dermatology services

Date Exercise Ended - Sunday, July 12, 2015

These services are jointly commissioned with NHS Southport and Formby CCG and operate from a number of different venues across the borough. Community dermatology services diagnose and treat patients for an extensive range of skin conditions. People are generally referred to the service by their doctor for things like severe eczema that can’t be treated by their practice.


Community dermatology services

Date Exercise Ended - Sunday, July 12, 2015

These services are jointly commissioned with NHS Southport and Formby CCG and operate from a number of different venues across the borough. Community dermatology services diagnose and treat patients for an extensive range of skin conditions. People are generally referred to the service by their doctor for things like severe eczema that can’t be treated by their practice.


Litherland Out Of Hours Pharmacy

Date Exercise Ended - Saturday, January 31, 2015

Sefton residents were asked for their views on proposals to close the restricted opening Out of Hours Pharmacy at Litherland Town Hall Health Centre between December 2014 and January 2015. This consultation followed a review of this NHS South Sefton and NHS Southport and Formby CCG service earlier in 2014 focusing on its effectiveness.


Litherland Out of Hours Pharmacy

Date Exercise Ended - Saturday, January 31, 2015

Sefton residents were asked for their views on proposals to close the restricted opening Out of Hours Pharmacy at Litherland Town Hall Health Centre between December 2014 and January 2015. This consultation followed a review of this NHS South Sefton and NHS Southport and Formby CCG service earlier in 2014 focusing on its effectiveness.