Red Rocks Nursing Home

05/11/2025

PLEASE CONSIDER GETTING YOUR FLU JAB
This season's strains seem to be particularly nasty.
Freya feels as though she's been run over by a truck!

See photos of who's eligible for a free influenza jab or nasal spay.

A message from the UK Medicines & Healthcare Regs Agency

Central Alerting System: Influenza Season 2025/26: Early Season Activity

The latest UKHSA surveillance data shows influenza activity is now above baseline levels following an early start to influenza circulation in children and young adults. We anticipate that circulation will continue to increase and spread in these and in other age groups.

Recent influenza signals (data to 26 Oct, published 30 Oct) include:

Overall positivity now at 8.2% (7 day moving average) in NHS and public health laboratories and over 30% in 5-14 year olds

Positivity among primary care presentations with acute respiratory infection has reached 10.2%

Emergency department influenza-like illness attendances are well above baseline for the time of year

Hospitalisation rates and ICU admission rates for influenza are now above baseline, with the highest admission rates in those age 85 years and over

There has been an increase in influenza outbreaks reported to Health Protection Teams

03/11/2025

Please support Wirral Hospice by booking your REAL Christmas Tree collection now at: https://www.wirralhospice.org/treecollection/

Collection's start from Fri 16th Jan but must be booked prior to collection. Registration closes on Sunday 11th January but please book early.

They can collect from:
CH41 - CH42 - CH43 - CH44 - CH45 - CH46 - CH47
CH48 - CH49 - CH60 - CH61 - CH62 - CH63 - CH64

Christmas Tree Collection & Recycling From Friday 16 January 2026, and for a busy few days afterwards, a small army of Wirral Hospice St John’s volunteers, eager to work off their festive feasting, will be buzzing all around Wirral picking up used REAL Christmas trees from outside people’s homes...

31/10/2025

Having a 👻🎃🦇spooktacular Halloween 🎃🧹

Thanks to Paula and Phil 👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳for the fabulous food and our Activities team, Annmarie 🧙‍♀️, and Lynne 🧟‍♀️.

Quizzes, poems, competitions and music galore - a groovy🕺 afternoon.

30/10/2025

Massive 👏👏👏 congratulations 👏👏👏to Nicky for attaining a DISTINCTION in her Diploma in Adult Care Leadership L5

14/10/2025

Our Spanish Day - que dia tan fantastico? 🇪🇸

Lunch consisted of chicken, prawn & chorizo paella topped with calamari , followed by a delicioso Tres leches cake, all accompanied by an glass of Sangria or a lemon and mint cordial.

Our afternoon tea: Ham and Cheese croquettes, Serrano Ham and Manchego Cheese Toasties, Stuffed Olives, and Garlic and Herb prawns.

For supper, we enjoyed Spanish tortilla, followed by vanilla ice cream with Seville oranges in an orange and cinnamon syrup.

Fabulosa!

Gracias Paula! 👏

26/09/2025

Our "Autumn Sing" is on the horizon - Sat 25th October at 2pm and we would love to invite you for another sing-a-long of autumnal tunes and poetry followed by afternoon tea - All are welcome (incl children 10+ yrs).

The line-up includes our favourites such as:

• Autumn Leaves
• Shine On Harvest Moon
• Singing in the Rain
• Autumn Days (hymn)
• One more step along the world I go (hymn)
• Ferry Across the Mersey
• In My Liverpool Home
• Leaving of Liverpool
• Let It Be
• You’ll Never Walk Alone

Thank you for your continued support with the success of our sing-along afternoons! The residents really enjoy meeting each other’s families and friends.

We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible 😊
Moz, Julie, Anne Marie & Kate

10/09/2025

Please come along and join us between 11:30 and 2.30pm with many other members of in encouraging the government to and properly fund social care before the sector crashes irreversibly.

The more the merrier!
Thank you ❤️

10/09/2025

In the same year that Rob celebrates 27 years volunteering for RNLI Hoylake Lifeboat Station, this month saw him also celebrate his 5th anniversary with us.

Massive thanks for keeping us all safe, sound, ship shapen and Bristol fashion.

Here's to many more years🍾🥂

NB: The English phrase "shipshape and Bristol fashion" means in good order, efficiently arranged. Originally, the phrase was "ship shapen and Bristol fashion" first recorded as early as 1827, Bristol was the most prosperous port of west-coast Britain, and its ship chandlery was of the highest quality. The term may have developed in view of the port of Bristol having a very high tidal range of 13m (43 ft) - the second highest in the world. Ships moored in this area would be aground at low tide and, because of their keels, would fall to one side. If everything was not stowed away tidily or tied down, the results were chaotic and cargo could be spoiled.

09/09/2025

What’s changed?
At our last Day of Action on the 25th February, we faced the Chancellor’s budget challenges, including National Insurance and National Minimum Wage increases. However, from this Autumn, the new employment legislation will impose further wage costs that neither providers nor the people we support can afford.

How much more can we be squeezed?

Why we walk?
This government continues to add new responsibilities on social care without providing the investment required to deliver. The irony is stark; the NHS 10 year Plan mentions social care only three times, yet relies on us to deliver its goals.

We cannot continue as the invisible support system for the health and wellbeing for millions in our communities. We must be seen. We must be heard. And we invite the government to engage meaningfully with us. With a reported £50 billion gap in public finances, the social care sector fears the axe will fall on us again in this Autumn’s Budget. But this isn’t just about budgets it’s about real lives. There must be a national conversation about what it truly costs to keep people safe, independent, and well.

The Providers Unite's peaceful walk in Liverpool on the 29th September ("Backbone of Care Walk") will bring together care providers and allies to affirm the essential role of social care in our society and demand the urgent investment we desperately need.
Helping Hands Home Instead Senior-Care Home Instead Bupa UK

08/09/2025

So popular has our Red Rocks Penpals proven that we have had to draft in Charlotte to help us decorate even more pebbles.

08/09/2025

Our Summer Sing back in August was another huge success, thanks to all our activities team.

Thanks to Annmarie for the floral arrangements and to Moz, Julie, Kate and Charlotte for making sure the afternoon went with a swing.

04/09/2025

Today sees Red Rocks feature in the Good Business Charter's awareness campaign alongside many other trusted, quality Great British brands.

See our logo ringed in yellow below.