This was an online meeting led by Bernie Smith of Preston City Council’s Community Engagement team. Among issues discussed were gaps in winter provision, lung cancer screening, men’s health screening, the Workwell scheme and the new NHS triage system for making appointments. Continue reading

A big thank you to all our groups and contacts who attended the second meeting of our Benefits Poverty Consultation Group which was held online. Representatives from the DWP and Preston City Council were in attendance along with several new members. For a full video... Continue reading

Tony attended this meeting at The Foxton Centre which was as ever well attended. Updates from all present and an interesting presentation by the School Attendance team. Please email tonyd@prestoncn,org for a copy of the agenda. Continue reading

This took place at PNEFC’s Deepdale stadium and there was a huge turnout of stakeholders including many VCFSE groups. Marc Dunne of Preston City Council’s Community Engagement team gave a presentation on how the strategy came about and said a launch with youth groups and... Continue reading

Tony attended this online meeting of the Lancashire Association of CVSs of which PCN is an associate member. Chair Garth Hodgkinson outlined the Areas of Benefit discussion with a view to defining LACVS areas and adding Greater Manchester/Merseyside/Cumbria CVSs. GH concluded after discussion to retain... Continue reading

We had another excellent attendance and a big thank you to all of you who attended the event which was held at Preston Masonic Hall. Speakers were Barbara Coleman on the NHS genomics awareness campaign and PCSO Mohammed Hussain. Unfortunately, our other speaker Kayliegh Robinson... Continue reading

This was an online meeting. Claire Niebieski, Head of Population Health (Lancashire North) for the NHS Lancs & South Cumbria ICB, advised that a Terms of Reference for the group and a strategy was now being drafted. She advised that a funding programme was being... Continue reading

This meeting was held at Preston Town Hall and was as usual well attended. Preston City Council deputy leader Sarah Threlfall, who chaired the meeting, advised that the City Strategy had been agreed and a Health and Wellbeing strategy was being developed to operate under... Continue reading

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