Useful Links
Health
Bolton Association and Network of Drop-ins
Telephone : 07866 550 695
Email: admin@band.org.uk
Contact Details (from Monday 7 May 2007):
BAND
The Bolton Hub
Bold Street
Bolton
BL1 1LS
Telephone : 01204 546 070
Fax : 01204 546 071
Other services include : Anticoagulation, Childrens Services, Community Dental Service, Community Loan Store, Continence, Continuing Health Care, Diabetes, District Nursing, Eye Care, Food and Health Team, Health Visiting, Intermediate Care, Mental Health Care, Neuro-Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry (Foot Health), Rapid Response Team, Referrals Management, School Nursing, Sexual health and family planning, Support to Stop Smoking, Speech and Language Therapy, Tissue Viabliity, Walk-in Centre, Wheelchair Services, Young People's Centre.
- Promoting more and better palliative care
- Ensuring that existing laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are not weakened or repealed during the lifetime of the current Parliament
- Influencing the balance of public opinion further against any weakening of the law
Over 1,000 volunteers provide a counselling service, supervised by a team of professional supervisors and managers. Every day around 4,000 children call ChildLine, but lack of funds means that only 2,300 of them will get through to our counsellors for comfort, advice and protection.
The Rotational Occasional Treatment Scheme operates on weekdays, but you may be required to travel some distance to the dentist. The Emergency Dental Service operates on weekday evenings and on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Both services are appointment-only and can be contacted via NHS Direct on 0845 46 47.
Frank is an excellent website which gives plain English information on drugs. Frank also has a confidential, free advice service which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for kids, teenagers and adults alike. Frank has advisors who, between them, speak over 120 different languages. You can either e-mail or phone Frank on a freephone number (and the call won't show up on the phone bill).
It's main duties in England are to:
- assess the management, provision and quality of NHS healthcare and public health services
- review the performance of each NHS trust and award an annual performance rating
- regulate the independent healthcare sector through registration, annual inspection, monitoring complaints and enforcement
- publish information about the state of healthcare
- consider complaints about NHS organisations that the organisations themselves have not resolved
- promote the coordination of reviews and assessments carried out by ourselves and others
- carry out investigations of serious failures in the provision of healthcare.
The services that MhIST delivers have grown and developed over time and now include:
* Advocacy at the Bolton Royal Hospital * Advocacy in the community * Befriending *
Craft social group * Counselling * Information and support for individuals * Mental health "A-Z" directory * Reiki therapy * Support for residents in supported accomodation * Rounders team
Self Help groups
* Depression * Self harm * OCD * Carers * Relaxation * Bipolar
Befriending Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Contact : Pam Whitelaw
Address : Wesley Suite, Victoria Hall, Knowsley Street,
Bolton, BL1 2AS
Telephone/fax : 01204 397152
Citizens Advice and each Citizens Advice Bureau are registered charities reliant on over 20,000 volunteers and need to raise funds to provide these vital services. The majority of our advisers are trained volunteers, helping people to resolve over 5.6 million problems every year.
Emmaus is a registered charity concerned with homelessness and recycling. They offer a place to live to people who have been homeless and are willing to help in the recycling business they run from the Community at Derby Barracks in Bolton. Their aim is to become self-sufficient financially as soon as possible, by collecting and selling donated furniture and household goods.
Northern Education and Resettlement
Information Services
Call them on the telephone or drop in and see them - their office is just 3 minutes walk from Bury Metrolink.
8 Bank Street
Bury
Lancashire
BL9 0DL
Tel : 0161 272 0666
Fax : 0161 272 0031
e-mail :
askus@burylawcentre.co.uk
CLS Direct provide a series of free leaflets that outline your legal rights in key areas of law. These leaflets are all written by independent experts and they are available in hard copy in English, Welsh, Braille and Audio using their order form.
- Dealing with Debt
- Employment
- Divorce and Separation
- Renting and Letting
- Buying and Selling Property
- Losing your Home
- The Human Rights Act
- Claiming Asylum
- Welfare benefits
- Wills and Probate
- Dealing with the Police
- No-win, No-fee Actions
- Problems with Goods and Services
- Medical Accidents
- Equal Opportunities
- Racial Discrimination
- Personal Injury
- Rights for Disabled People
- Community care
- Education
- Immigration and Nationality
- Mental Health
- Alternatives to court
- Family Mediation
- Veterans
- Domestic Violence, Abuse and Harassment
- Living Together and Your Rights if You Separate
- Dealing with Someone Else's Affairs
- Care Proceedings
- Neighbourhood and Community Disputes
- Changing Your Name
The leaflets in this series give you an outline of your legal rights. They are not a complete guide to the law and are not intended to be a guide to how the law will apply to you or to any specific situation.
You can either check out their website or call in to see them. Their office details are on their website.
When the British Forces are deployed on operations they are entitled to free aerogrammers (colloquially known as "blueys" because of their colour) to and from their families and friends. The BFPO has now made available a system called' e-bluey ', where you can e-mail service personnel while serving on operations or exercise for more than 60 days duration.
It's a two-way system, so the service personnel can respond to their correspondents.
You have to register for the system, but it's as simple as sending an e-mail, and it's free.
You can also ring the Employers' Telephone Helpline on 0845 010 6677.
Gary Titley - Member of the European Parliament and Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party.