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Are you ready to quit?
Have you been thinking about quitting smoking and wondering how to go about it? Maybe you are still on the fence? Here are some reasons to stop: No matter how long you have smoked your health will improve straightaway. After 20 minutes your pulse rate
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Stoptober 2018
The national STOPTOBER campaign is back for 2018! While we know that quitting smoking is not easy, Stoptober is a perfect time to try again. The best thing a smoker can do for their health is to stop smoking, and there is more help and support available now tha
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Health benefits from strength and balance exercises
We all know that we should be doing regular exercise but the results of a recent review by Public Health England showed that this shouldn’t just be aerobic exercise. Strengthening and balance exercise has also been shown to be beneficial to our health and we sho
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Live Well Stay Well Launch Event
Live Well Stay Well held a successful service launch event on the 24th May at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, presenting to over 120 delegates. On this page you will find all the resources from the day. Presentations slides from the day can be accessed here. This
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Focus on brisk walking, not just 10,000 steps, say health experts
With an estimated 3 million middle-aged adults physically inactive across the country,[1],[2] Public Health England (PHE) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) are encouraging adults to incorporate brisk walking into their days as a way to improve
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Dementia risk now included as part of NHS Health Check
Adding the dementia element to the NHS Health Check programme will enable healthcare professionals to talk to their patients about how they can reduce their dementia risk, such as by maintaining their social life, keeping mentally and physically active and stoppin
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Children consume more than a year’s worth of sugar in 6 months
Children in England have already consumed more than a year’s worth of sugar, according to figures from Public Health England (PHE). Children aged 4 to 10 years should have no more than the equivalent of 5 to 6 cubes of sugar each day, but are consuming on
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New PHE Heart Age App launches
New PHE Heart Age App launches Do you know your heart age? Get to know your heart age by taking a free online, ‘Heart Age Test’, which asks physical and lifestyle related information, as well as blood pressure and cholesterol, and determi
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