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Falls Awareness Week 2023

Falls Awareness Week 2023

Join our Falls Education Services at events across the county, starting on Monday 18 September,...

Sexual Health Week: 11-17 September

Sexual Health Week: 11-17 September

Today marks the start of Sexual Health Week. Being safe means feeling empowered to access contraception, testing and treatment. It means understanding consent, healthy relationships and pleasure. It also means providing relationships and sex education (RSE) that gives young people the tools to navigate the world safely – both online and offline – and delivering safe, accessible sexual health services, wherever people need them. That’s why for #SHW23 we’re #PlayingItSafe!

Veterans Moving Forwards recovery course

Veterans Moving Forwards recovery course

The autumn programme of recovery course Veterans Moving Forwards starts next month. The course has been co-produced with veterans and is offered by Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College.

Cervical Screening Awareness Week: 19-24 June

Cervical Screening Awareness Week: 19-24 June

This week (19-24) June is Cervical Screening Awareness Week – a campaign launched in 2021 to encourage those eligible for screening to respond to their cervical screening invitation letters and book an appointment at their GP practice or sexual health clinic if they missed their last one.

Community Health Checks

Community Health Checks

Our Outreach Vaccination team are currently out and about offering simple health checks at community venues across Gloucestershire.

Heart Failure Awareness Week 2023

Heart Failure Awareness Week 2023

Heart Failure Awareness Week, held every year in May, is an opportunity for us to shine a light on heart failure and to raise awareness about our fantastic Heart Failure Service at GHC. Led by the British Society for Heart Failure (BSH), the campaign aims to raise awareness of the importance of recognising heart failure symptoms early, getting an accurate diagnosis and receiving optimal treatment.

Arts Psychotherapies

Arts Psychotherapies

'Arts Psychotherapies' is an umbrella term for the four professions working psychologically and...

World Occupational Therapy Day

World Occupational Therapy Day

World OT Day was first launched on 27 October 2010 by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT). Since then it has become an important date in the occupational therapy calendar to promote and celebrate the profession internationally.

NHS campaign to support survivors of sexual assault & abuse

NHS campaign to support survivors of sexual assault & abuse

The NHS has today launched a new campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault referral centres (SARCs) – specialist NHS services that offer specialist practical, medical and emotional support 24/7 to anyone who has been raped, sexually assaulted or abused.

Legs Matter Week 2021

Legs Matter Week 2021

Legs Matter Week – an annual celebration which aims to highlight best practice in leg care and early detection, as well as promote the ‘well leg’.

AHPs Day 2021

AHPs Day 2021

Celebrating our Allied Health Professionals October 14th marks national AHPs Day - a day to...

MBE for Jane Melton

A senior allied health professional from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has...

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