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Quit smoking with us this Stoptober
Stoptober is back for its 9th year - and this year, where looking after your health has never been more important, Rotherham smokers are being encouraged to join in with the biggest mass quit attempt in the country. Stoptober is the 28-day stop smoking challenge based on
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Healthy Lifestyle Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on all of our lives - one of the key issues being how we perceive our health and wellbeing. As there has been a shift in priorities for many people, we want to understand what those new priorities are and we have created
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Helping Rotherham people achieve Better Health
This week saw the launch of the major new ‘Better Health’ campaign, designed to help people lose weight, get active and eat better. Public Health England’s ‘Better Health’ campaign includes a variety of tools and apps, including a Weigh
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'Today is the Day' to kick the habit!
We are supporting the new stop smoking campaign ‘Today is the Day’, launched by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), for smokers to ‘quit today’ to protect themselves from smoking related diseases and increased risk of severe illness from COVID-1
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Smokers can #QuitForCovid with Get Healthy Rotherham
Get Healthy Rotherham are echoing Government advice to stop smoking to help reduce the risks of COVID-19, and are continuing to offer FREE support to help local smokers to quit. Speaking in the Commons last week, in response to a question from Bob Blackman MP Chair
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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update
In light of the advice issued by the government in relation to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak, we have made some changes to our service provision. The health and safety of our staff and service users remains our highest priority and we have adapted our services to m
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Celebrating 20 years of stop smoking support!
This year we are celebrating 20 years of NHS Stop Smoking Services in Rotherham. To mark the anniversary celebrations, Get Healthy Rotherham and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust held a special event at Rotherham Hospital. Here there was a special ‘Pledge
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Join us in celebrating special smokefree anniversary this No Smoking Day!
On this year's No Smoking Day - Wednesday 11th March - we're celebrating 20 years of Stop Smoking Services in Rotherham. To celebrate the 20th anniversary, this year's local theme for No Smoking Day is 'We've not quit helping you quit!', highlight
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Sarah's Slimming World Success
Get Healthy Rotherham are working in partnership with Slimming World to help deliver a free 12 week weight management programme for people who wish to lose weight (subject to eligibility criteria), and since this partnership began many people have benefitted from having acc
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Get Healthy for FREE in 2020!
Get Healthy Rotherham can help Rotherham residents be more healthy in 2020 - and the service is already having a positive impact on people’s long term health. Our service offers FREE specialist support to anyone aged over 18 and who lives in Rotherham -
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BreathingSpace Open Day - World COPD Day November 20, 2019
Do you have or know someone who has COPD? Want to find out more about COPD and the support available? Come on down to Breathing Space’s Open Day this Wednesday 20 November 10am - 3pm - World COPD Day. The day includes information and various activiti
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Working in partnership to help people in need
Get Healthy Rotherham has joined forces with Rotherham Foodbank to provide important services to help people’s health and wellbeing. Rotherham Foodbank has been chosen by Parkwood Healthcare, who deliver Get Healthy Rotherham, as their chosen charitable cause. As a
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New town centre venue for Get Healthy Rotherham
Get Healthy Rotherham’s latest venue - the ‘Get Healthy Rotherham Hub’ inside Rotherham Indoor Market - was officially opened in the summer as part of World Wellbeing Week 2019. The Hub is the latest addition to Get Healthy Rotherham’s existing st
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Healthy Eating Week 2019
Earlier this summer the Get Healthy Rotherham team took part in the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) Healthy Eating Week. Each day we completed a new challenge: Have breakfast - helping to get the day off to a good start by providing some of the energy and nutrients th
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Love Your Heart This Valentine's Day
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 17.9 million deaths each year, 31% of all global deaths. Poor cardiovascular health can cause heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, peripheral arterial disease and
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Obesity - The Scale of the Problem
Obesity is a complex issue. In England, one in three children are overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school and this rises to two in three in adulthood. Not only does this impact on the individual and their health and wellbeing, it also impacts our society.
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Alcohol and Smoking
For many people who smoke, drinking alcohol and having a cigarette often go hand in hand. If we look back, alcohol and cigarettes have generally been sidekicks rooted in the pub culture where you could enjoy a cigarette and a drink without having to go outside into designat
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Alcohol and breast cancer
Every year over 55,100 people in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer with alcohol causing 1 in 13 cases. Alcohol increases the level of oestrogen in the bloodstream and long-term exposure to oestrogens increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Drinkaware and Pu
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Fancying a challenge this February?
Are you a chocoholic and fancying a challenge this February? Dechox is a nationwide challenge to give up chocolate throughout February by the British Heart Foundation. This means anything with cocoa in it is off limits - from the sprinkles on your cappuccino, to that 3pm
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Is your New Year's Resolution to be more healthy?
08 January 2019 Is your New Year’s Resolution to be more healthy? Whether it’s stopping smoking, losing weight, eating more healthily or being more active, then Get Healthy Rotherham could help you. Our service offers FREE, specialist support to anyone
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Have you had your FREE NHS Health Check?
Nearly 80,000 people in Rotherham aged 40-74 are eligible for a FREE NHS Health Check - the five yearly health assessment which can help people take steps to live a healthier lifestyle. The NHS Health Check offers an opportunity for people aged 40-74 years old to assess
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Dry January
Taking part in Dry January gives you a chance to ditch the hangover, reduce your waistline, and save some serious money by giving up alcohol for 31 days. Dry January is the annual movement run by the charity Alcohol Change UK which sees millions of people give up alcohol
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How Are You?
Christmas may be a time for overdoing things a little... But together we can make 2019 into the year you fight back to a healthier you. Find out how you really are and take the free health quiz... Over two million people already have... Visit https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/how-a
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