30 July 2024
 The NHS is hosting a series of walk-in clinics across north west London where you can get your child vaccinated against measles over the summer holidays.
Measles is highly contagious and there has been a rise in cases across north west London recently. The MMR vaccine is the most effective way to prevent the spread of infection.
The early symptoms of measles can cause your child a lot of discomfort, but the infection also puts them at risk of much more serious health challenges. If it spreads to the brain or lungs it can result in difficulty breathing, blindness, hearing loss or brain damage.
If you have any questions about the vaccine, talk to your GP or visit your local walk-in clinic.
Check out the full list of walk-in vaccine sites via the button below.
 The weather in London will be hot for most of this week. During this time, please take extra care of your own health and look out for others, especially older people and those who have long-term health conditions that make them more susceptible to the heat.
Read the Council's full guidance on how to stay well in hot weather by clicking the button below.
 It's not too late to join Team BP and take part in special Olympic-themed challenges with BetterPoints, all while getting fit and winning prizes.
There is a pool of prizes on offer between now and 11 August with a total value of over £500. To take part, download the BetterPoints app and register an account with a Hounslow postcode, or enter the code paris2024 if you commute to Hounslow regularly from another borough.
Once registered, you will start earning BetterPoints straight away for getting active and looking after your health and wellbeing. You can spend your rewards at participating local retailers or donate them to charity.
 Hounslow's Health Outreach Team (HOT) is back on the road and will be visiting venues across the borough in the coming weeks.
In the next fortnight you can meet the team on the following dates:
- 31 July - Cranford Community Hub, Cranford College - 10.30am to 2.30pm
- 3 August - Boston Manor Park - 10am to 4pm
- 5 August - Hounslow Community Hub, Hounslow House TW3 3EB - 10am to 1pm
- 6 August - Feltham Community Hub, Feltham Assembly Hall - 2pm to 5pm
- 9 August - Health is Wealth, Cranford Community College - 10am to 2pm
- 13 August - Clayponds Food Bank, 168 Clayponds Gardens, London W5 4RQ - 12.30pm to 3pm
- 16 August – Summer on the Green, Edensor Gardens, Chiswick, W4 2QY - 1pm to 5pm
You can also visit the team at their permanent home at the Treaty Centre, Unit 18, High Street, Hounslow, TW3 1ES.
Opening hours are 10am - 6pm from Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm on Saturdays.
 Mind Axis is currently designing The Teashop+, a new group-based mental wellbeing programme with a digital component, which will be launching in Hounslow this autumn. To ensure they are creating a programme for community members, they are running a series of workshops where they will co-design The Teashop+ with residents.
The workshops will take place in Holborn throughout the summer, and attendees will be paid for their time. The workshops are open to everyone, but Mind Axis would particularly like to hear from residents with lived experience of mental health issues and/or those close to someone who has experienced psychological distress.
For more information and to sign up, please click the button below.
 Brentford FC Community Sports Trust has released details of its 2024/25 On Your Side programme of sport and fitness sessions.
The free sessions are all open to adults under the care of the West London NHS Trust mental health integrated network teams (MINT) and forensic services, as well as adults seeking support with their mental health. People wishing to sign up can do so via the QR codes on the attached flyers below.
The programme consists of the following sessions:
 Hounslow Council’s Trading Standards team, in partnership with the Council’s Public Health team, held an event on Thursday, 18 July to raise awareness of illegal tobacco and vape products in the borough.
At the event, at Bell Square off Hounslow High Street, professionals from a range of Council teams spoke to residents about how to identify illegal products and the harm they can bring to communities via crime and health risks, especially for young people.
Members of Hounslow’s Health Outreach Team and other Public Health teams also offered advice on smoking, shisha and vaping cessation, oral health, drugs and alcohol, blood pressure checks, and sexual health awareness.
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Young Hounslow Sexual Health is hosting a drop-in session for parents and carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) on Wednesday, 7 August from 10am until 11am.
The session will be a chance for parents and carers to discuss any questions or concerns they have regarding the sexual health, behaviour and relationships of the people they care for.
To register, parents/carers need to email younghounslowrse@turning-point.co.uk when they will be sent the link for the online group.
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 DFN Project SEARCH is a life changing opportunity helping young people with learning disabilities and/or autism to move from education into full-time employment.
The partnership between London Borough of Hounslow, West Thames College and Kaleidoscope offers programmes at businesses including the Council, Thorpe Park, and the London Twickenham Stadium Hotel.
If you’re a parent/carer of a young person aged 17-24 with an open Education, Health and Care Plan and you think they may be suitable, click on our supported internship hub below to find out more and apply. You can also check out DFN Project SEARCH graduate Chris’s story about how his career is now flourishing.
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