Cervical Screening Awareness Week is 15-21 June 2020

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https://youtu.be/2eroUjaIp_4 Cervical Screening Awareness Week is 15-21 June 2020. Cervical Screening Awareness Week is here! Coronavirus has changed lots of things, but Cervical Screening Awareness Week isn’t one of them. GP ambassador of Jo’s Trust, Dr Philippa Kaye explains that your GP’s role has not changed during the coronavirus crisis. If you are worried about […]

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Welcome to Virtual Chelsea 2020

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Sir Nicholas Bacon, President of the RHS, welcomes you to Virtual Chelsea. In Chelsea week enjoy highlights and features created by our garden designers, nurseries, ambassadors, Discovery zone exhibitors and florists as we seek to bring a taste of Chelsea 2020 to your homes. See more of Virtual Chelsea at https://www.rhs.org.uk/virtualchelsea […]

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Heart Failure & COVID-19

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World Heart Rhythm Week will be held from 1 – 7 June. Learn more in this video interview between Professor Cowie and Trudie Lobban MBE about the issues regarding Covid-19 and Heart Failure.  Martin Cowie is Professor of Cardiology (Health Services Research) and is an Honorary  Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation […]

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Kindness for Mental Health Awareness Week 2020

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Did you know that kindness can be beneficial for our mental health? Kindness Matters – Mental Health Foundation – Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 […]

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Spotlight on adolescent health

Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being presents key findings from 227,441 young people aged 11, 13 and 15 years in 45 countries who took part in the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 provides an overview of the key findings highlighting important […]

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Covid-19 detection dogs

Medical Detection Dogs have proved that dogs can detect #Parkinsons, #malaria, #cancer .  They are now training them to join the fight against #Coronavirus. Together with their collaborators London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Graduate Studies and Durham University they believe they can make this happen, and if you can support this work please […]

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The Duchess of Cambridge speaks with midwives about mental health

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https://youtu.be/rRYrGsBKKk8 The Duchess of Cambridge speaks with midwives and parents at Kingston Hospital in London via video chat about the importance of mental health. […]

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Make May Purple for the Stroke Association

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Make May Purple is the Stroke Association fundraising and awareness campaign that coincides with National Stroke Awareness month. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is a difficult and worrying time for everyone. It suddenly turned our lives upside down and has affected people emotionally. Isolation can be especially difficult for stroke survivors and their families.  The Stroke […]

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VE day celebrations in the streets

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What a day it must have been!  75 years on and hopefully we will once more be celebrating victory together in the streets over a very different kind of war. Watch this show reel from Imperial War Museum – VE Day, 8 May 1945 was a day to celebrate. Victory in Europe Day marked the […]

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Remembering the courageous nurses of ANZAC

As Australians and New Zealanders come together, exercising social distancing measures on their doorsteps this Saturday at dawn, we remember the harrowing and dramatic stories of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War this Anzac Day. An introduction by Peter Rees to his book The Other Anzacs: Nurses at war […]

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