Winter Vaccinations
September/October 2024 With winter around the corner, it’s important to be protected against winter illnesses by getting vaccinated against flu and COVID-19. People who are at high risk from these…
Breastfeeding Awareness Week
September/October 2024 National Breastfeeding Week is this week (18-24 September) and focuses on the theme: ‘Everyone has a part to play in helping mums to breastfeed’. If you work with…
Project tackling loneliness in Newham
September/October 2023 To tackle loneliness and social isolation in Newham, our colleagues in the Community Neighbourhood Link Worker team have launched three fantastic pilot projects this month: Chatty Benches, Chatty…
Suicide prevention activities
September/October 2023 During the week leading up to this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day (Sunday 10 September), we worked with partners to host a number of workshops and coffee mornings…
50 Steps strategy refresh
September/October 2024 50 Steps to a Healthier Newham is our Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2020-2023 and, as we are coming to the end of its three-year remit, it is…
Stoptober 2023 activities
September/October 2024 Stoptober takes place during the month of October each year and offers a fantastic opportunity to encourage smokers to quit with the help of specialist support. Following Stoptober…
Our work towards a smoke-free Newham
September/October 2023 As part of our commitment to making Newham tobacco-free by 2030 (step 41), we are pleased to announce that Newham Council has recently signed the Local Government Declaration…
Well Newham Challenge cohort 1 summaries
The Council’s Public Health Team is working with Newham Hospital to run the Well Newham Challenge programme in the hospital. The programme funds and supports hospital staff to pilot new…
Well Newham Challenge project wins WeImprove award for equity
Barts Health NHS Trust held the first ever WeImprove awards this week to celebrate outstanding examples of quality improvement across the Trust’s hospitals. After receiving over 100 nominations from all…