Healthy futures roadshow for residents

A Healthy Futures roadshow comes to Rochdale tomorrow (Thursday 4 June) to tell the public about changes being made to healthcare in the north east of Greater Manchester.

Patients with long-term conditions and members of the Healthy Futures team will be on hand at Nye Bevan House on Maclure Road to answer any questions about the planned changes to health services, known as Healthy Futures.

Trevor Purt chief executive of NHS Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale said: “The Healthy Futures roadshow will give the people of Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale a great opportunity to find out more about the planned changes under Healthy Futures which sees NHS Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale leading on a number of major programmes for the partnership.”

The Nye Bevan House roadshow runs between 10am and 3pm.

The roadshow will continue at Rochdale Infirmary on Wednesday 10 June, Rochdale Market on Saturday 13 June and Rochdale bus station on Friday 19 June. Each event runs between 10am and 3pm.

Sir Jonathan Asbridge, Programme Director for Healthy Futures said: “Throughout the Healthy Futures programme we have been working with the Patients’ Council to give us an insight about what patients want from their health service. This roadshow is an exciting time and offers the public the chance to speak not only to the doctors involved in the changes but patients too.”

Further roadshows across Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are:

Littleborough Co-op store, Monday 22 June
Rochdale Market, Saturday 27 June
Birch Hill Hospital, Thursday 9 July
Middleton Bus Station, Monday 13 July
Rochdale Infirmary, Wednesday 15 July
Heywood Market, Friday 24 July
Rochdale Infirmary, Tuesday 28 July
Birch Hill Hospital, Wednesday 5 August
Tesco's Supermarket, Friday 7 August
Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre, Saturday 8 August
Heywood Morrisons Supermarket, Saturday 22 August
Alkrington Health Centre, Monday 24 August