Our Highlights:

-Help us improve health and social care services in Lambeth

-People with lived experience of diabetes to help shape services in South-East London

-Lambeth leisure centre vouchers for vaccinated under-30s

-Volunteer with us!

We want to hear from YOU - Your voice will make a difference!

We want to talk people living with any of the following:

-learning disabilities

-autism 

-severe mental illness 

about their experience of staying healthy during the pandemic: 

-How easy or difficult was it for you to access healthcare services?  
-Did you get the support you need during lockdown?  
-Were you able to get your annual health check? 
-Were you offered covid-19 testing or the covid vaccination? 

How can I help? 
· We will ask you if you are happy to take part in a telephone or face to face interview 

· If you agree to take part, we will arrange for you to attend an interview by telephone or in person 

· The interview will be conducted by a Healthwatch Lambeth research trained staff member or volunteer 

Contact us and take part
For more infomation, email:

Natalia Sali   natalia.sali@healthwatchlambeth.org.uk

or phone:  07729 624 226

Are you a Digital Communications Whizz?

We are looking for a Digital communications and social media volunteer for up to 3 hours a week.

As a Digital communications and social media volunteer you will be supporting Healthwatch Lambeth to manage our social media and website by creating or reviewing content and responding to people’s comments or queries. This is a remote working opportunity.

With an ever-changing environment, this opportunity will enable you to freshen up your digital skills. You’ll make a difference by helping to keep the public up to date with the latest news, enabling people to share their views and communicate the number of ways people can get the support they need. 

If interested, please contact: info@healthwatchlambeth.org.uk
 

Do you have diabetes?  Are you interested in helping us shape services?

Across south east London NHS organisations are working with local partner organisations including local authorities, voluntary and community sector organisations and GPs to help improve services and outcomes for people living with diabetes.  We are committed to ensuring local people have the chance to help shape this work and provide feedback for how we can work better together to do this and we are looking for people with diabetes to work with us.

We are looking for two people and two deputies living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes from each of the boroughs in south east London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) to form a south east London wide group of people living with diabetes to work with the programme structures at south east London level and in the relevant boroughs and alongside localised borough specific work.  Once this group is in place we will be seeking two people with two deputies from the group to sit on the South East London Diabetes and Obesity Delivery Board.

The South East London Diabetes and Obesity Delivery Board aims to bring together NHS and other partners across south east London to develop a vision and model of care for diabetes and obesity services which will improve outcomes, reduce health inequalities, look at prevention and specialist care and how we can best support people to manage their care. The Board seeks to ensure that services for people living with diabetes and/or obesity wrap around the person, are culturally appropriate and bring care as close to home as possible.

There is more detail about these roles and role outlines are available on the South East London Clinical Commissioning Group’s website here: https://selondonccg.nhs.uk/get-involved/involving-people-with-diabetes/

If you would like to find out more please contact the engagement team at selccg.engagement@nhs.net 

If you are interested in one of the roles please fill in the expression of interest form and the equality monitoring form and email selccg.engagement@nhs.net by 9 am on 6 September 2021. 

Leisure centres in Lambeth have been invited to join Public Health England’s drive to boost the uptake of the Covid vaccination amongst young people.

Better, the charitable social enterprise that operates leisure centres on behalf of Lambeth Council, have pledged their support for the UK’s vaccination programme by offering incentives to vaccinated customers.

Better is offering anyone between 16- and 30-years-old a £10 voucher to be used against any membership at a Better-operated leisure facility and a three-day free pass to any of its leisure centres or gyms.

Participating leisure centres in Lambeth include:

-Brixton Recreation Centre
-Clapham Leisure Centre
-Flaxman Sports Centre
-Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre
-Herne Hill Lifestyle Centre
-Vauxhall Leisure Centre
-West Norwood Health and Leisure Centre

To take up the offer, local residents will need to need to complete the form available on the Better website and follow the simple instructions. Customers will need to present their vaccination card or alternative proof on their first visit to the centre.

Teenagers within three months of turning 18 can now book their vaccine appointment online through the National Booking Service or by calling 119. Vaccination sites across the country are working hard to complete the rollout with more than 300 sites already offering the jab to 16 and 17 year olds, including GP teams who began vaccinating eligible teens last week.

If you are 16 or over, and you haven’t had your first dose yet, the time to do so is now. Find out how to book your vaccine, or access a walk-in clinic near you. Second doses will only be offered if it is at least eight weeks since the first dose.

It’s easier than ever to get your vaccination in Lambeth. You can

1)      Visit the South-East London health and wellbeing bus or a walk-in clinic

2)      Book online or by phone

3)      Book through your GP

You can get the COVID-19 vaccine if you're aged 16 or over.

Read more about the vaccine and how it is being delivered in Lambeth on the NHS South East London website.

There are now several large popup and walk-in sessions  especially for those over 40 and/or adults within high-risk groups to get their vaccine. 

There are daily sessions at both St Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospitals from 8am-7pm through June. All approved COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective and give the best protection against coronavirus. 

Lambeth walk-in clinics and vaccination bus

Regular walk-in clinics are running from Montgomery Hall in Kennington and from Baldry Gardens and Streatham Place GP practices.   

South-East London CCG are also pleased to share that they are running vaccinations and providing pick up and collection of COVID-19 testing kits from a new Health and Wellbeing Bus stationed on the Cowley and Loughborough Estates. The bus is open to the public from 9am to 3pm each day and COVID-19 ambassadors will be supporting engagement with residents, sharing information, answering questions and supporting takeup of the vaccine among those who are aged 40+.

You do not need proof of address, NHS number or immigration status to use these services