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  • Baby Week 2026

    Baby Week returns across Cheshire and Merseyside from 16–22 November 2026, celebrating 10 years of Improving Me. This year’s theme, Closing the Gap, brings families, communities and professionals together to champion women’s health, tackle inequalities and help every baby and family achieve the best possible start.

  • The 51%

    Improving Me launched, the 51% in2024 pilot social prescribing and creative health writing project for women who live in Cheshire and Merseyside. This new project will support the delivery of the Cheshire and Merseyside women’s health strategy.

  • Holding Time

    Holding Time is an award-winning creative health project commissioned by Improving Me to use photography, storytelling and women’s lived experience to challenge cultural barriers around breastfeeding, strengthen communities and bring conversations about motherhood and infant feeding into the heart of healthcare.

  • Baby massage for HCP's to mark IWD25

    Improving Me, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Women’s Health and Maternity programme is absolutely delighted to be welcoming back the global Bee Happy partnership to celebrate and mark #IWD25 building on the success of sessions delivered during Baby Week

  • #IWD 25

    International Women's Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It is celebrated annually. Spurred by the universal female suffrage movement, IWD originated from the labour movements in Europe and North America during the early 20th century and the demand for women’s suffrage.

  • Cheshire and Merseyside Maternity Voices Network

    Cheshire and Merseyside Maternity Voices Network

  • Learning on Prescription

    Learning on Prescription

  • Women's health summit 2025

    The summit will celebrate success, highlight opportunity and explore ongoing challenges. We want all women, our babies and families to have a great start in life and get the support they need to stay healthy and live longer.

  • Baby Week 2025

    Baby Week 2025 14 to 20 November.

  • Baby Week 2024

    Baby Week 2024

  • Baby Week 2023

    This year’s theme is, Hear Me Roar. Our message for 2023 is we are listening. We want to hear what women have to say! And to make sure this happens we are working with some of our longstanding partners as well as some new ones, both within health and outside of health, in order to give women a voice. So, we are delighted to announce the first of a series of events and activities designed to do just that.

  • Baby Week 2022

    Baby Week brings together cross-sector organisations, families and caregivers to promote the importance of women’s health and giving all our babies the best possible start in life.

  • Baby Week 2021

    Baby Week 2021

  • #IWD 24

    Dr Rachel New is Improving Me’s writer in residence. Rachel talks to the Government’s first Menopause Employment Champion, Helen Tomlinson, who shares some inspirational anecdotes and gives some sound advice to both employers and employees, on how to make changes and thrive in the workplace - before, during and after the menopause.