If you live with pain you may have considered that making some changes to your diet could help. Losing or maintaining a healthy weight reduces inflammation and lessens the pressure on our joints. You can make tiny changes to your eating habits and behaviours that......
A vaccine to help protect against RSV will be available on the NHS from 1 September 2024. Symptoms of RSV usually start within a few days of getting infected. Most people only get cold like symptoms, such as: There’s no specific treatment for RSV, it......
If the Pandemic is over why aren’t GP practices open? The pandemic is not over. GP practices worked hard to provide a service throughout lockdown and continue to do so. To protect everyone, we must maintain safe infection control and minimise unnecessary physical contact. How......
About Carers Resource Carers Resource is a charitable organisation based in Shipley that supports the needs of unpaid carers i.e. those individuals who are looking after someone at home who is not well or has a disability or long term illness. Caring duties are not......
First Response crisis service offers support 24 hours a day, seven days a week to people of all ages living in Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale or Craven experiencing a mental health crisis, you do not have to have used any mental health services before to contact......
What is DEEP? DEEP stands for the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project – it is the UK network of dementia voices. DEEP consists of around 100 groups of people with dementia – groups that want to change things. DEEP is: For more information on services......
HALE (Health Action Local Engagement) is an award winning charity based in Bradford, who work with local people, enabling them to make lifestyle changes to improve their health through a variety of programmes and activities, focusing on Isolation, Self Care, Alcohol Awareness, Sexual Health and......
Causes of earwax You might have earwax build-up because: you just have more wax in your ears – some people do naturally you have hairy or narrow canals (the tubes that link the eardrum and outer ear) of your age – wax gets harder and......
The Better Health campaign will kick off by supporting individuals on their weight loss journey, but later down the line, the programme will also provide advice and support for quitting smoking, drinking less and looking after your mental health. Nearly two thirds (63%) of adults......
You are entitled to ask for a referral for specialist treatment on the NHS. However, whether you will get the referral depends on what your GP feels is clinically necessary in your case. If you wish to be referred to a specialist in a particular......