As we move into 2024, Your Health Notts can support you in achieving your goals.

The New Year doesn’t have to mean a ‘new you’, but if you want to lose weight, reduce your alcohol consumption, quit smoking or move more, they can provide tailored support with a variety of programmes designed to help you make life long healthy behaviour changes.

Vitamin D is needed to keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy. But between October and early March, we do not make enough vitamin D from sunlight.

Government advice is that everyone should consider taking a daily 10 microgram dose of vitamin D during the autumn and winter.

It’s never too late to quit smoking. You will notice immediate improvements to your health when you stop. Make 2024 the year you quit smoking for good!

Support to give up smoking is available through Your Health Notts, who offer a friendly, tailored and free service to help you on your quit journey.

Time to Talk Day on 1 February is all about creating supportive communities by having conversations with your family, friends or colleagues about mental health. We all have mental health and by talking about it we can support ourselves and others.

It can feel a bit daunting to start a conversation about mental health, so check out these tips. 

We need your help to develop a new service offer for our short breaks service with a clearer focus, more flexibility and better outcomes for carers and people who use the service. 

Please share your thoughts and suggestions in our online questionnaire before 29 February.

For Children’s Mental Health Week, 5 – 11 February, NottAlone is hosting two exciting events for invited schools to bring children and young people to get stuck in to workshops and activities around mental health and wellbeing.

NottAlone supports children and young people in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire to access local, tailored mental health support and advice. If you’re a parent, carer, or professional working with young people, there are dedicated sections of the website with tailored information for your role in a young person’s life.

Search for @NottAlone1 on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram to see snapshots from the events as well as mental health and wellbeing tips for young people on Instagram, and advice for parents, carers and professionals on X.