Help shape the new WorkWell service in North Tyneside and Northumberland

Do you have experience of a health issue impacting on your ability to work?

Your insight could help the NHS in the North East and North Cumbria develop a service called WorkWell to support people to stay well and keep working.

It aims to tackle those times when health problems – like stress, back pain or long-term conditions – get in the way of someone staying in or returning to work.

In some parts of the North East and North Cumbria, as many as one in three people are out of work due to poor health and WorkWell aims to help 2,000 people across the region in its first year.

You have the opportunity to join a focus group next week to discuss how this service might work and support people in North Tyneside and Northumberland.

If you have experience of a health issue impacting on your ability to work, we would love you to get involved. It’s early days in the plans for this service and your views will help shape how it’s designed and delivered.

Our face to face session will take place next Tuesday August 12 from 1.30pm to 3pm in Wallsend. All participants will be offered travel costs and a £10 shopping voucher as a thank you for their time.

An online session is also being planned.

If you would like to join the conversation please email info@hwnt.co.uk with your name and phone number or phone us on 0191 263 5321. We will contact you to confirm your place and give full details of the sessions.

Find out more about WorkWell here and in the short film here: