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Dehydration means your body loses more fluids than you take in. If it's not treated, it can get worse and become a serious problem.

Welcome to the B Well website: the new health and wellbeing site for staff of Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

B Well is the Trust’s commitment to improving employee health and wellbeing by providing employees with support and information on a wide range of health and wellbeing issues.

Hand sanitation is a crucial part of infection control strategies, and regular handwashing, for at least 20 seconds is recommended. For handwashing instructions, please click here.

This book was a project developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC MHPSS RG). The project was supported by global, regional and country based experts from Member Agencies of the IASC MHPSS RG, in addition to parents, caregivers, teachers and children in 104 countries. A global survey was distributed in Arabic, English, Italian, French and Spanish to assess children’s mental health and psychosocial needs during the COVID-19 outbreak.

In the Intensive Care Society, we care about your experience of your everyday working life in critical care. We know that sustaining the wellbeing of our staff means that we can provide a better service for our patients, and we make safer decisions and fewer mistakes. We know that this is not just about how you as an individual manage the stress of your job; it is about how your job is designed (including how valued you feel at work, your autonomy and sense of control), the way your unit is managed and your team is led, and the support from your peers.

Difficult events and experiences can leave you in a low mood and can increase the risk of depression. Sometimes it's possible to feel down without there being an obvious reason.

This guide aims to help you: find out if you could have symptoms of depression, understand more about depression, find ways to manage or overcome depression. This guide is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT helps you to examine how you think about your life, and challenge negative automatic thoughts to free yourself from unhelpful thought and behaviour pattern

New Study: Sleep Is Literally a Deep Clean for Your BrainSleep washes away toxic gunk that builds up in your brain. Do you really want to leave it there?

A common barrier to sleep is having a hard time switching off from thoughts. If you find it hard to switch off from worries and negative thinking you might find our worry resources helpful.

In order for sleep to happen, there needs to be deep relaxation. Focus on this first. Deep relaxation is very restorative. Sleep should follow, but if it doesn't, try not to worry too much as this will make you feel even more wide awake. Here are some tips that might help improve your sleep.