The Hub is there to help you look after yourself and your family, to enable you to live happily, healthily and independently for longer.

It is a safe, welcoming space where you can go to talk and get advice about any challenges that may be impacting negatively on your general health and wellbeing.

It's not a traditional walk-in centre for treating injuries and illnesses. Instead, the services being provided are there to help you with identifying health (physical or mental) or wellbeing issues earlier and link you up to some appropriate support straight away.

The Living Well Hub is part of the borough-wide Living Well programme, which aims to connect people, communities and services and enable residents to take greater control of their own health, wellbeing and resilience.

The Hub is situated on Horsemarket Street in the heart of Warrington town centre, close to the bus interchange and train station, and with ample blue badge parking nearby.

Inside the Hub, there are a number of clinical and non-clinical rooms, shared by teams from the council, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust ,and our voluntary and community partners.

• Monday – healthy lifestyle advice and support (including weight management, management of high blood pressure, cancer support) and women’s health
• Tuesday – services for older people (including dementia assessments, bowel and bladder services, podiatry)
• Wednesday – children and family services (including maternity, health visitors and maternal mental health support)
• Thursday – services for older people
• Friday – children and family services

We offer a mix of booked appointments and drop-in support throughout the week. There is a refreshment area, toilet facilities and an infant feeding room.

Like most towns and cities across the UK, Warrington has experienced unprecedented levels of demand for health and care services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Warrington is also one of the fastest growing towns in the UK with an ageing population. The population of the borough of Warrington is around 210,000, with the number of people aged 65 and above set to double over the next 20 years.

Therefore new and innovative approaches to health and care services in the community are now required to meet current and future demands.

The Hub is a focal point for the health and care system to collectively support early intervention and the prevention of ill health. It will in time help to ease pressure on other health and care services across the town, such as GP appointments and services at Warrington Hospital.

The location of the Hub, in the town centre, is close to the areas of highest deprivation in Warrington so ideally situated to have the largest impact in terms of supporting those with the greatest needs to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives.

The Hub received £3million funding from Warrington’s Town Deal, which is a £22million programme of connected schemes across Warrington.

Funding for the Town Deal was provided as part of the Government’s Towns Fund and given the go-ahead by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) in February 2022.

Plans for the three-storey Hub were subsequently approved in November 2022.

Warrington’s initial Town Deal bid was shaped by public feedback and consultation. The public engagement undertaken during the early planning stages of the Living Well Hub project showed support for a new health and wellbeing facility in the town centre.

Feedback from residents suggested that a space to offer help and advice to families and children would be especially welcome.

The Hub has been developed in partnership with multiple stakeholders as part of the town’s wider Living Well programme.

Living Well is about bringing people and organisations together from across health, public health, adult social care, the voluntary sector, and our local communities.

The aim of Living Well is to make sure you can access the right help and support for your individual needs in order to resolve any issues that could affect your physical, social and emotional wellbeing. It is centred around seven key themes:

• Mental health and emotional wellbeing
• Living safe and well at home
• Being active and mobile
• Connecting with friends, family and community
• Managing medications and health conditions
• Money advice, housing and life changes
• Healthy lifestyle choices (including eating and drinking)