NHS staff support healthy living schemes

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Inkar Miryakupova

NHS staff members are supporting various walking schemes.

NHS staff have given their support for the ‘Walk to Work’ week and the ‘Walk Sheffield’ campaign, which starts on Monday 9 May and Saturday 14 May respectively.

The events have been organised to increase awareness of the importance of exercising daily. They have been held to encourage Sheffield residents to take part in exercise, whether it is walking daily or taking entertaining walks during art and history tours around the city centre.

It is recommended that adults should undertake 30 minutes of moderate physical activity, five days a week, to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Dawn Lockley, NHS Sheffield’s lead on the Living Neighbourhoods project, said: “Walking has been described as the nearest thing to perfect exercise – it’s free, easy and is suitable for virtually everyone, regardless of their fitness.

“We’re so lucky in Sheffield though. We have unrivalled opportunities for walking and is one of the ‘greenest’ cities in Europe, surrounded by our seven hills and an entire third of us located within the Peak District National Park.”

NHS officers, meanwhile, have reminded Sheffield residents that, by increasing physical activity, the risks of becoming obese or developing inactivity related heart disease and Type 2 diabetes are reduced.

Sheffield NHS Walk-in Centre to move

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Wenli Cheng

Banner outside the Royal Hallamshire Hospital tells people the Walk-in Centre is moving on 1st April.

The NHS Walk-in Centre at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital is to move address to the Sheffield City GP Health Centre on Broad Lane next month.

Emily Raine, the senior receptionist in the GP Health Centre, said the Walk-in Centre and the GP Health Centre will merge On April 1 to be the NHS Walk-in Centre because space limitations.

The new service, located in the GP Health Centre building, will be open even longer from 8am to 10pm, 365 days per year.

Members of the public can walk-in as an unregistered patient.

Both the Walk-in Centre and the GP Health Centre would open as usual until April 1, Ms. Raine said.

The new address of NHS Walk in Centre is: Rockingham House, Broad Lane, Sheffield, S1 3PB.

Telephone: 0114 241 2700.

Hospitals Cancel Non-Urgent Appointments

Posted on December 2, 2010 by jop10ay

Five hospitals across Sheffield have cancelled all non-urgent appointments and operations because of the severe weather conditions.

Northen General, the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield’s Children’s Hospital, Weston Park Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital have all closed their doors to non-emergency patients.

All accident and emergency departments will stay open, and all chemotherapy and radiotherapy appointments will carry on as normal.

The Sheffield Children's Hospital

The hospitals will contact patients at a later date to re-rechedule appointments and operations.

Sheffield Children’s Hospital has also confirmed that it remains open despite the adverse weather conditions.

Chris Sharratt, chief executive, said that The Trust has remained open due to the dedication and hard work of the staff.

“Staff have volunteered to stay overnight in order to make sure our services can continue to run. Despite these efforts we have had to make a number of adjustments to our planned services, although we are trying to keep the impact to a minimum. Any staff who are not due to attend work but are able to get in should contact the duty Matron to see if their services are required.”