Tag: Telford
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How many calories are there in your alcoholic drink?
There are more calories in your alcoholic drinks that you might think. And they soon add up.
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How volunteering to help others can help you
Volunteering can be good for your health and wellbeing. Studies show that volunteering makes people healthier, happier and more employable.
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How I quit smoking after 22 years so I could ride my motorbikes again
Help from a Healthy Lifestyles Advisor and the desire to to ride my motorbikes again allowed me to make a major change to my lifestyle
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What I learnt after spending a week with the Public Health team
Ella Foster spent a week’s work experience with the Public Health team at Telford & Wrekin Council and found out how varied the work can be.
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Helping to set up an alcohol and drug recovery project turned my life around
Steph is in recovery from substance misuse and is now helping others to do the same with the help of music in Brookside, Telford.
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Walking football and healthy eating helped me lose over 7 stone
After a chance meeting with hero John Aldridge, Telford resident Les Pointer decided to take up walking football and healthy eating to lose over 7 stone.
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Do you know someone who is lonely or social isolated?
We need your help to match some of our Feed the Birds volunteers to people in the community who are lonely or socially isolated.
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Become a Health Champion in Telford & Wrekin
Health Champions are members of the community who volunteer their time to promote health and wellbeing.
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Meet the Telford women making cycling a breeze!
Jacqui had’t ridden a bike for 20 years. Now she’s a member of a women-only bike group that’s helped her in more ways than one.
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10 things you only know if you are a Public Health Practitioner
What do Public Health Practitioners know? Well quite a lot actually…
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The one where we explain what Public Health is
By Jennifer Davies, Public Health Practitioner Many of you may have understood that ‘Healthy Telford’ is the name we have given to Public Health on social media (after all, who wants to follow ‘Telford and Wrekin Council’s Public Health Team’?) But if you have you ever wondered what Public Health…
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New LGBT+ peer support group set up in Telford
A local volunteer is looking to make Telford a more friendly place to be for LGBT+ people with a new peer support group
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Here’s why you should get tested for HIV
You might not want to be tested for HIV. But the sooner you find out whether you have HIV, the better it is for your health. Test negative and you end any worries or doubt.
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“It’s not about you, it’s about helping them”
Everyday Healthy Lifestyle Advisors are changing people’s lives in the Telford community. We asked Katie, one of our advisors, to talk about what they do and why she loves her job.
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Myth busting – the flu vaccination
Can you get the flu from the flu vaccine? One of our junior doctors looks to see if there is any truth behind some of the many flu vaccine myths.
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Fail 99 times, get back up 100 – how I stopped smoking
Hannah tried to stop smoking 4 times. Just because you failed once at stopping smoking doesn’t mean will fail the next time.
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Life-changing recovery service now open in Brookside
The service called Recharge, will support young people with their emotional wellbeing and recovery from potentially life-changing issues
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Becoming a dementia friendly community
Someone will be affected by dementia in your community. And your community has a part to play to help people with dementia to live well.