Your health

Information and factsheets on mental health conditions, cold weather planning, stopping smoking, winter wellbeing and more.

Help us help you

The help us help you campaign is designed to help people choose the best place to get treatment if they fall ill, freeing up emergency services to help those most in need.

Resources

• Dementia health check leaflet
• Preventing dementia leaflet

COVID-19 mental health factsheets

Informative factsheets from our mental health phone-ins:

• COVID-19 older people and carers
• Coping with COVID-19 advice for young people
• COVID-19 and mental illness
• Grief, loss and mourning in a pandemic (PDF, 259 KB)

5 ways to wellbeing

We’ve all heard that eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day can help maintain a healthy body. But did you know there is a 5-a-day that can help keep your mind healthy too?

Taking the renowned 5 ways to wellbeing developed by the new economics foundation into the digital world, the free app gives anyone with a smartphone a chance to reflect on their wellbeing, set activities to help improve their wellbeing and track their progress. The activities are not prescriptive. It has been built to be very flexible to give you a free and convenient way of reminding yourself to look after your wellbeing and take time to:

1. Connect.
2. Take notice.
3. Be active.
4. Keep learning
5. Give.

Download the 5 a day card.