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Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service is calling on mums across Essex to become volunteers to help boost breastfeeding rates.

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service have been asked to showcase their innovative family hubs to senior politicians and decision-makers at a special event in Parliament.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today (29 May 2019) published a report that shows their inspectors have recognised improvements are being made at Braintree’s Church Lane Surgery.

Paramedics are now on hand to provide additional support to local people when they visit the Urgent Care centres in Skelmersdale and Ormskirk as part of the improvement plan being delivered by Virgin Care in partnership with the local NHS.

Adults with learning disabilities or autism and their carers can benefit from trampolining and bowling sessions from local health and care provider Virgin Care and Bath Sports and Leisure Centre.

Virgin Care’s Sutherland Lodge GP Practice in Chelmsford has been supporting its most vulnerable patients by giving out ‘positivity packs’.

People in Ormskirk are set to benefit from more convenient access to a health service which keeps them out of hospital and living independently, thanks to a  partnership between the NHS and local community services provider Virgin Care.

Immediate action has been taken by Virgin Care to fulfil recommendations made by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following an unannounced inspection at Skelmersdale Walk-in Centre, based at Concourse Shopping Centre.

Julie Andrews, Virgin Care’s Service Complaints Manager, Norfolk Prison Service, was named ‘Professional of the Year’ at the recent Patient Experience Network National Awards (PENNA) ceremony.

The new partnership between Lancashire County Council and Virgin Care which launches today (1 April 2019) will see the Health Visiting and School Nursing services across Lancashire transformed over the next 3 years but schools, families and other residents are being reassured that services continue to operate through the launch.

Ofsted has published a complimentary report following its first monitoring visit to The Learning Enterprise (TLE), Virgin Care’s training and development arm.