Health and Wellbeing: Cervical screening saves lives | Healthier takeaways | Health for Kids website | Local offer for care leavers | FREE cycle and walking guides

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We're supporting the cervical screening saves lives campaign

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The NHS Cervical Screening Programme saving an estimated 5,000 lives a year, however coverage is at a 20-year low. To help address this issue, Public Health England is running a national multimedia cervical screening campaign to:

  • highlight the risks of cervical cancer,
  • highlight the preventative benefits of the often misunderstood screening test,
  • encourage women of all ages to respond to their screening invitation,
  • encourage women to consider booking an appointment if they have missed previous invitations,
  • aim to tackle barriers to screening highlighted by research, issues such as fear and embarrassment.

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Healthier options takeaways

Takeaways that qualify as HOT are making positive changes to how they prepare, serve and display their food to help customers make healthier choices. 

The HOT merit scheme is run by Nottinghamshire County Council and our District and Borough Council partners. Together we're aiming to increase the amount and variety of healthier options in takeaways across Nottinghamshire to help consumers to maintain a more balanced diet. 

Use our online directory to find your nearest Healthy Options Takeaway. You can search by town using the search box or browse through the list.

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New website to help young children access health services

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We’ve launched a new fun and interactive website called Health for Kids, to help primary school children think about how they can stay healthy and be more aware of issues including exercise, sun protection, healthy eating, puberty and sleep.

The website was developed with children to focus on the type of information, support and advice they would find most useful when thinking about health. Health for Kids has quizzes, games and engaging information aimed at children to help them learn about and understand a number of health issues.

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Get active with Travel Choice as better weather hits the county

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It's that time of year when the days are longer and the sun has decided to shine across the county (albeit not all the time!).

Did you know active modes of travel like cycling and walking can have an amazing impact on you and those around you? They can:

  • help you live longer by halving your risk of heart disease and cancer
  • help you burn 100 calories per mile, getting fitter and healthier for free
  • help look after the planet and improve the air we breathe by reducing your carbon emissions

If you would like to get out in the fresh air in Nottinghamshire, why not take a look at the Travel Choice website where you could download or request a physical copy of Routes and Rides, which has a number of walks, cycle routes and horse rides across the county?

Travel Choice can also provide free bus and cycle maps for the Newark and Mansfield areas as part of a project to help residents, jobseekers, school leavers and employees with free transport information, advice and services to help them explore sustainable travel options.

Download Routes and Rides  Find out more about Travel Choice


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