Local Health Promotion ideas
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For a fee of £15 per anum register with Northants Health Promotion Resource Unit and have access to all the health promotion materials you could wish for http://www3.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/health/health-promotion-resource-unit/Pages/join-the-hpru.aspx
Please sign-post your older customers to this falls and fracture prevention exercise class and improve health outcomes in our area.
Please use the Healthy Living Pharmacy to help embed the ethos of Self Care into everyday life. The dedicated Self Care Forum website has loads of resources and top tips to get you started http://www.selfcareforum.org/
Cervical Cancer Awareness. Plenty of ideas about how to get involved here https://www.jostrust.org.uk/resourcecentre
Be Clear on Cancer Local Pilot Campaign
9 February
We have a new in post Regional Social Marketing Manager for Midlands and East for PHE
Selina Lavictoire will be launching a Be Clear on Cancer pilot campaign in the Midlands only on 9 February. (This campaign is not the NHSE directed campaign which you are contractually obliged to record).
She will be sending out Campaign Toolkits directly to pharmacies to help you to support the campaign with your patients and customers. Here is the overview BCOC Abdominal Symptoms Campaign Overview
March is Ovarian and Prostate Cancer Awareness month…resources available to download here https://be.macmillan.org.uk/be/s-536-cancer-awareness.aspx Please use the following links for more leaflets 793ff0fb77048b33765148d083e81839 and 178e2d1ee55b855604ec57fc38194c75
Cardiac Rehab in Kettering http://www.kgh.nhs.uk/about-us/news/cardiac-rehabilitation-exercise-sessions/
Diabetes UK Northampton http://northampton.diabetesukgroup.org
Walking for Health walks and rambles take place weekly all over the county just google under your local area for example in Middleton Cheney https://www.walkingforhealth.org.uk/content/middleton-cheney
Health and Wellbeing Northamptonshire http://www3.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/health/Pages/default.aspx
Bipolar Northampton https://www.bipolaruk.org/northampton-support-group
Rushden and Higham Arthritis Care group meet every month https://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/our-services-and-support/branches-and-groups/475-rushden-and-higham-branch
Reach For Health Daventry http://www.reachforhealth.co.uk/what-s-on.html
Young Northants http://www3.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/children-families-education/young-northants/health/Pages/default.aspx
Ramadan HLP leaflet Download this leaflet to help your patients keep healthy in Ramadan and beyond
Ramadan with key points translated a_guide_to_healthy_fasting
Ramadan Diabetes UK Ramadan-Factsheet-2016-English-Final