They say "prevention is better than cure". But despite grand promises of investment to the NHS, the Government is still cutting preventative services. £10 billion? In a speech on 5th October,...
The power of prevention
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2020 and Before Articles
Reducing risk: the Gateway Pre-Diabetes Course
The results are starting to come in from the first people to complete our Pre-Diabetes Course - and we're hearing some brilliant success stories. The most important results are the HbA1c levels,...
Stocking up on emergency supplies
Every day, our outreach workers visit clients all over Birmingham who are in need. Could you help us to help them? Two of our outreach services, Gateway Healthy Futures and the Pregnancy Outreach...
How have I helped you today?
We thought we'd have a bit of a change from our usual fortnightly blog post and rather than a story from one of our services focus on something a bit more pictorial, with photos and comments from...
Six months of Solihull success!
Our newest service, Solihull Lighten Up, has now been running for six months and we're very pleased to report some early successes! In the last six months, 98 clients have lost a total of 610.9kg,...
Health Trainers: still here – still changing lives!
Over the last few months, since the Health Trainers service was recommissioned, we've been changing the way we work very slightly. We've brought in some part time roles, we've started specifically...
24 hours in POWS
It's now 18 months since we changed the intake criteria for our Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service (POWS). We thought it would be interesting to show you how the POWS service looks now, on an...
Fun for all the family at our Community Fun Day
Last Saturday, we held our Community Fun Day: a day for all the family in Cannon Hill Park. And what a lovely day it was! The weather was great (especially compared to the last time we held the Fun...
Social support for GP patients
As Gateway Healthy Futures is in month 10 of its pilot period, we want to show you the range of support the service offers, by letting you hear two patients' stories, in their own words. Gateway...