The Living Well Hub helps people to look after themselves, to live happily, healthily and independently for longer. It is an important part of Warrington’s wider Living Well programme.

The Living Well Hub is shared and supported by:

  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WHH)
  • Warrington Borough Council
  • Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • Voluntary and charitable sector partners - including Macmillan, Warrington Disability Partnership, LiveWire and Home Start
A photo of the ground floor space of the Living Well Hub

A warm welcome awaits

Our doors fully opened on Monday 11 March.

Based at Horsemarket Street in the town centre, the Hub is home to 25 organisations and more than 350 staff, providing a wide range of NHS and non-clinical services under one roof.

The ground floor of the Hub is an inviting community-led space with a café area where you can drop in to discuss any issues that may be affecting your health and wellbeing.

NHS and non-clinical services will be delivered on the first floor, with several consultation and clinical rooms available.

Opening hours

  • 9am to 5pm weekdays
  • until 8pm on Mondays and Wednesdays

Come and visit

A photo of a clinical room at the Living Well Hub

Credit John Bean

What’s on at the Hub?

Monday’s focus: Healthy lifestyles and women’s health

  • Department for Work and Pensions, work, training and benefits support: 9am to 12pm
  • Directions for Men, mental health peer support: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Domestic abuse, confidential support for victims: 1pm to 3.30pm
  • Livewire healthy lifestyles, health checks and fitness advice: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Livewire stop smoking support: 9am to 1pm
  • Livewire weight management, support for those with a BMI over 30: 9.30am to 11.30am and 2pm to 6pm
  • Macmillan Cancer support and information: 10am to 4pm
  • Talking Therapies, mental health services information (2nd and 4th Monday of the month): 11.45am to 12.15pm
  • Substance misuse, support for reducing alcohol and drug use: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Talking Point connecting you to local community services: 1pm to 4pm
  • Torus Foundation, support for Torus housing residents: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Strong Girls Club, supporting women through miscarriage, stillbirth and the fertility journey. Self-refer via: stronggirlsclunnorthwest@gmail.com: 6.30pm to 8pm, 28 October

Tuesday’s focus: Aging well and dementia

  • Age UK Mid Mersey, helping people 50-plus to live as well and independently as possible: 1.30pm to 4pm
  • Dementia and delirium support, provided by dementia nurse specialists from Warrington Hospital: 1pm to 3pm
  • Dementia – still me support for those affected by dementia: 1.30pm to 3pm and Dementia – still me group, games and chat: 2pm to 3pm (1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month)
  • Department for work and pensions, support for anyone over 50: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Drive ability, safe driving support for medical conditions (1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month): 9am to 12.30pm
  • Later life memory advice, memory loss support by Mersey Care: 1pm to 5pm
  • Livewire healthy lifestyles, active aging and dementia-friendly exercise: 9.30am to 12pm
  • Warrington Carers Hub, one-to-one support for unpaid carers: 9am to 16.30pm
  • Warrington Carers Hub drop in, chat with other unpaid carers (2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month): 1.30pm to 14:30pm
  • Warrington Voluntary Action – good neighbours, dementia support: 1pm to 5pm (1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month)

Wednesday’s focus: Families and children

  • Department for Work and Pensions, work, training and benefits support: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Early help link worker, support for family needs: 9am to 12.30pm or 1pm to 4.30pm
  • Early Years Childcare Team, free childcare funding advice: 9am to 12pm
  • Home Start, support for parents with children 0-5 years: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Health visitor baby weighing, wellbeing and weight checks by Warrington Hospital: 9.30am to 11.30am
  • Livewire library service, library information and activities (4th Wednesday of the month, next session 30 October): 1pm to 4pm
  • Maternity Action, legal advice on work and benefits for pregnant women and new parents: 9am to 12pm
  • Talking Therapies, mental health services advice for ages 16-plus: 12pm to 12.30pm
  • Oral health for children, support from Bridgewater NHS FT (3rd Wednesday of the month, next session 16 October): 10am to 12pm
  • Parenting and positive relationships, support for co-parents experiencing conflict: 9.30am to 12pm
  • Stay and play, sing, play and have fun with your child: 10am to 11:30am
  • Warrington Voluntary Action, help to reduce loneliness and connect people (1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month): 9am to 12.30pm
  • Your Housing, tenant support: 1pm to 4.30pm, 9 October

Thursday’s focus: Aging well and falls

  • Warrington Disability Partnership, support for disabled and those living with long-term conditions: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Macmillan Cancer, support and information for those affected by cancer: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Livewire healthy lifestyles, health checks and fitness advice; falls group: 10am to 12pm
  • Parkinson's drop in, support for anyone affected by Parkinson's, 9am to 12.30pm
  • Warrington Voluntary Action, help to reduce loneliness and connect people (2nd and 4th Thursday of the month): 9am to 12.30pm
  • Talking Point, World Mental Health Day, 9am to 12.30pm 10 October

Friday’s focus: Families and children

  • Department for work and pensions, work and training support for youths: 9am to 12.30pm
  • Early help link worker, support for professionals referring families on to support services (last Friday of the month): 9.30am to 12pm
  • Health visitor baby weighing, wellbeing and weight checks by Warrington Hospital: 9.30am to 11.30am
  • Home Start, support for parents with children aged 0 to five years, 9am to 12.30pm
  • Infant feeding support group, support from Bridgewater NHS Foundation Trust: 10am to 12pm
  • Maternity clinic, flexible maternity support by Warrington Hospital: 1.30pm to 4pm
  • Stay and play, sing, play and have fun with your child: 10am to 11:30am
  • Talking Therapies, support services and advice for ages 16-plus: 9.15am to 9.45am
  • Talking Point, connecting you to community services for the best outcomes: 9am to 12.30pm
A living well hub booth on the ground floor

Frequently asked questions

What is the Living Well Hub?

The Hub is there to help you look after yourself and your family, to enable you to live happily, healthily and independently for longer.

It is a safe, welcoming space where you can go to talk and get advice about any challenges that may be impacting negatively on your general health and wellbeing.

It's not a traditional walk-in centre for treating injuries and illnesses. Instead, the services being provided are there to help you with identifying health (physical or mental) or wellbeing issues earlier and link you up to some appropriate support straight away.

The Living Well Hub is part of the borough-wide Living Well programme, which aims to connect people, communities and services and enable residents to take greater control of their own health, wellbeing and resilience.

What services will be available?

The Hub is situated on Horsemarket Street in the heart of Warrington town centre, close to the bus interchange and train station, and with ample blue badge parking nearby.

Inside the Hub, there are a number of clinical and non-clinical rooms, shared by teams from the council, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust ,and our voluntary and community partners.

Services and sessions include:

  • Monday – healthy lifestyle advice and support (including weight management, management of high blood pressure, cancer support) and women’s health
  • Tuesday – services for older people (including dementia assessments, bowel and bladder services, podiatry)
  • Wednesday – children and family services (including maternity, health visitors and maternal mental health support)
  • Thursday – services for older people
  • Friday – children and family services

We offer a mix of booked appointments and drop-in support throughout the week. There is a refreshment area, toilet facilities and an infant feeding room.

Why do we need this facility?

Like most towns and cities across the UK, Warrington has experienced unprecedented levels of demand for health and care services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Warrington is also one of the fastest growing towns in the UK with an ageing population. The population of the borough of Warrington is around 210,000, with the number of people aged 65 and above set to double over the next 20 years.

Therefore new and innovative approaches to health and care services in the community are now required to meet current and future demands.

The Hub is a focal point for the health and care system to collectively support early intervention and the prevention of ill health. It will in time help to ease pressure on other health and care services across the town, such as GP appointments and services at Warrington Hospital.

The location of the Hub, in the town centre, is close to the areas of highest deprivation in Warrington so ideally situated to have the largest impact in terms of supporting those with the greatest needs to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives.

How has it been funded?

The Hub received £3million funding from Warrington’s Town Deal, which is a £22million programme of connected schemes across Warrington.

Funding for the Town Deal was provided as part of the Government’s Towns Fund and given the go-ahead by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) in February 2022.

Plans for the three-storey Hub were subsequently approved in November 2022.

Warrington’s initial Town Deal bid was shaped by public feedback and consultation. The public engagement undertaken during the early planning stages of the Living Well Hub project showed support for a new health and wellbeing facility in the town centre.

Feedback from residents suggested that a space to offer help and advice to families and children would be especially welcome.

What is the Living Well programme?

The Hub has been developed in partnership with multiple stakeholders as part of the town’s wider Living Well programme.

Living Well is about bringing people and organisations together from across health, public health, adult social care, the voluntary sector, and our local communities.

The aim of Living Well is to make sure you can access the right help and support for your individual needs in order to resolve any issues that could affect your physical, social and emotional wellbeing. It is centred around seven key themes:

  • Mental health and emotional wellbeing
  • Living safe and well at home
  • Being active and mobile
  • Connecting with friends, family and community
  • Managing medications and health conditions
  • Money advice, housing and life changes
  • Healthy lifestyle choices (including eating and drinking)

Latest updates

 

14 October 2024