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A DIGITAL health hub – the first of its kind in West Yorkshire – is now up and running on a Keighley estate. People can use the hub – at the Sue Belcher Centre, Bracken Bank – to access a wide range of health and wellbeing provision. Those involved in the venture include Bracken Bank and District Community Association, Keighley Healthy Living, the Modality Partnership and Keighley College. Guests at a launch event last Thursday included the town mayor, Councillor Peter Corkindale. And there was a pre-recorded message from the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Keighley councillor Doreen Lee. Funding for the hub is from a West Yorkshire and Harrogate health inequalities grant.
The pioneering facility officially gets up and running today at the Sue Belcher Centre, in Bracken Bank. People will be able to use the hub to access a wide range of health and wellbeing provision, including making GP appointments. The initiative is the realisation of a dream for David Weston, vice-chairman of Bracken Bank and District Community Association. I used to work at Airedale Hospital and I thought if it can utilise the digital world why not bring that into the community? he said. I m proud and delighted that the new hub has come to fruition. It will help take the strain off doctors surgeries.
KEIGHLEY Healthy Living has once again been spreading cheer at retirement housing schemes in the district. It arranged for singer Emma James to perform Easter concerts outside Farish House in Keighley and Staincliffe Court Retirement Living, Silsden. Both are Incommunities sites. “Emma brightened the day for residents – lifting their spirits and spreading joy,” says Julia Charlton, of Keighley Healthy Living. “Lots of the residents came to the windows and joined in with both the singing and dancing!” A similar concert, also featuring Emma, was staged outside Farish House in December. She performed for over an hour, spreading festive cheer. The event also saw Christmas cards, written by pupils from years three and four at Worth Valley Primary School, handed over to the residents.