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Blue Light Together is the place for UK emergency services staff, volunteers, retirees and friends and family to find information, ideas and support to help look after your mental health.

It’s all in confidence.

Supporting Health and Social Care leaders and teams through Covid-19 Home Courses

The health service is offering the COVID-19 vaccine to all eligible children. This leaflet tells you what to expect after your child has had their vaccination.

People aged 16 years and over, and those aged 12 years and over who are at risk (including health and social care workers) will be offered a booster dose of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. Find out how to get your booster vaccination at www.nidirect.gov.uk/ covid-vaccine

To access information on Menopause please click on the link below

Menopause - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Click on the link below to access this website

What Is Menopause? | National Institute on Aging (nih.gov)

Healthy workplace, healthy you supports employers and RCN representatives to work in partnership to improve working environments. It also supports nursing professionals to lead healthy lifestyles so they can maintain both physical and mental wellbeing.

These five directories list the names, numbers and web addresses (where applicable) of organisations that offer services to help improve mental health and emotional wellbeing. Where possible, additional information has also been provided, such as email addresses and contact details within each Health and Social Care Trust area.

Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke (NICHS) recently held an online blood pressure advise session. The advise session included clinicians and health professionals who answered questions about blood pressure, how to measure blood pressure at home and how to keep blood pressure at a healthy level. Those delivering the session included Dr. Carol Wilson (Consultant Cardiologist), Dr. Grainne Bonnar (General Practitioner), Sophie Boyle (Dietitian) and Hannah Williamson (Health Promotion Manager.)

Please share recording of session below for any staff that may be concerned with their blood pressure or as a helpful reminder on the importance of having it checked.

Blood Pressure Advice Session Recording - YouTube

Welcome to the online Stress Control class

As the HSCNI can’t deliver our Stress Control classes in the community just now, Dr Jim White will, instead, live-stream the classes, free-of-charge. Click here to get all the dates. To find out more about Stress Control click here. 

All you need to successfully complete this class is to watch each of the six sessions, read the booklets and use the relaxation and mindfulness. You can find the sessions on YouTube.

The next class will begin in Northern Ireland on 14th November

https://ni.stresscontrol.org/