What's New

February 2012

• Somerset Primary Care Trust Public Board Meeting - The Board of Somerset Primary Care Trust will be holding its next Board meeting at 10.00 am on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at Wynford House, Lufton Way, Yeovil,
  Somerset - 7 February 2012
  
• Can you "be clear on cancer" and help save a life? The Care Forum is looking for volunteer champions in Somerset to help raise awareness of the early signs of bladder and kidney cancer. The volunteers will go out visiting community organisations, clubs and groups to alert people to get checked out by their GP if they spot blood in their urine - 7 February 2012
  
• Smokefree campaign family fun day - NHS Somerset‟s Smokefree Homes and Cars campaign comes to Taunton with a FREE fun day for all the family. The event takes place on Monday 13th February 2012 from 10am until 2pm at The YMCA, Lisieux Way, Taunton - 3 February 2012
  
• Tummy upset? Diarrhoea? Then think twice before visiting relatives in hospital - Somerset’s Director of Public Health is asking local people to think carefully before visiting friends and family in hospital if they or anyone in their family has had even mild symptoms of diarrhoea or vomiting in the last 48 hours - 1 February 2012
  

January 2012

• Somerset's doctors hope new advertising campaign will help cut county's bowel cancer deaths - General Practitioners and hospital specialists in Somerset were welcoming a new national advertising campaign warning people to look out for the symptoms of bowel cancer - 30 January 2012
  
• Somerset doctor welcomes new child mealtime guidelines - Menus for ‘pint-sized’ tummies needed if county is to head-off obesity epidemic - Dr Caroline Gamlin, Somerset’s Director of Public Health has welcomed new
  nutrition guidelines for pre-school children - 24 January 2012
• Somerset GP joins NHS future leadership event - A Somerset GP joined hundreds of colleagues from across the South of England last week to discuss their key role in modernising the NHS - 23 January 2012
• Somerset's Stop Smoking Service supports call for plain tobacco packaging - Stop Smoking campaigners in Somerset are adding their support to a new South West campaign to take the glamour out of tobacco packaging - 17 January 2012
  
• Young people's attitudes to sex 'changed' by internet - New research provides evidence that young adults are using social media technology to post photos of themselves to meet online partners and set up dates for
  casual sex according to new research from The University of Plymouth - 17 January 2012
• Fee goes that extra mile to go smokefree - A woman from Glastonbury who was desperate to give up smoking because she felt it was controlling her life will soon be celebrating her first smoke free year and not
  only that she is now a keen runner and spinning fanatic at her local leisure centre - 16 January 2012
  
• Public health advisors say 'love your liver' and break that daily drink habit - Public health advisors in Somerset have welcomed a recommendation by MPs that national guidance should be issued recommending that the public stop drinking alcohol for at least two days within each week - 11 January 2012
• Minister commends trail-blazing independence scheme - A pioneering Somerset scheme to help people regain their independence after illness has been praised by the Minister of State for Care Services. Paul Burstow MP visited the St James Medical Practice in Taunton today (4 Jan) to see the pilot 'Reablement' Service first-hand and speak to people who have benefitted from it - 4 January 2012
• Somerset's advisers urge smokers to try the ultimate fitness detox ... and quit - Somerset’s stop smoking advisers are urging smokers to take part in a life saving fitness challenge this year, treating their body to the ultimate ‘detox’ programme by giving up cigarettes for good - 3 January 2012
  

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