Living well with dementia
...become a Dementia Friend and communities and businesses to become dementia friendly. Expect to hear a lot more about the things we can do to support people with dementia over...
Health and Wellbeing
Posts about the work of the Health and Wellbeing directorate
Welcome to screening
Posted by:
Anne Mackie, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Reducing preventable deaths, Reducing the burden of disease, Screening
...programmes for a number of different conditions have been established. There are currently three national cancer screening programmes: breast, bowel and cervical; and eight non-cancer screening programmes: six antenatal and...
Changing the cultural context of obesity
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease, Social marketing
Obesity can sometimes be hard to spot, even though it’s all around us. Take parents, who think their child is about the right weight, even when the child is actually overweight or obese – this happens to nearly one in …
Tackling food poverty on a local and national level
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease
Food poverty, or insecurity, is a personal tragedy for many people. More than 350,000 people had to turn to emergency food banks between April and September this year, according to...
Making HIV testing part of how we care for ourselves
Posted by:
Paul Cosford, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health, Reducing preventable deaths
HIV remains a major source of harm to people’s health, much of which is avoidable. There are more HIV tests being performed in England than at any time in the...
Having the conversation about alcohol
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease
...cheaper today than it has ever been when compared to our earnings and how much money we have for luxury items. Alcohol consumption has levelled off in the past few...
Recovery from drug dependency: where next?
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease
...lasting recovery? Where are we in terms of achieving our recovery ambition for people in drug treatment? And, in the context of the statistics released today, what can local authorities...
Squaring the circle for NHS Health Checks
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease
...services. So for instance, in Plymouth and Somerset there is work underway to understand how the NHS Health Check can reach people who may have relatively little contact with primary...
Supporting people when they need it most
Posted by:
Tony Vickers-Byrne, Posted on:
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Categories:
Improving health in the workplace, Mental health
...our organisation who are facing these very real challenges and doing their best in circumstances that aren't going to change overnight. We know there is still a job to do,...
Promoting wellbeing and mental health: what's next?
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Categories:
Health and Wellbeing, Mental health, Reducing the burden of disease
...illness can harm – especially the more disadvantaged communities. A recent report described how the system was letting down people with serious mental illness by not focusing enough on their...