Cardiac Rehabilitation at UHCW NHS Trust

Loneliness awareness week is about inspiring conversations about loneliness and promote connection activities happening across the world.

Around 23% to 27% of adults in Great Britain report feeling lonely "always, often, or some of the time". This means that up to one in four people experience some degree of loneliness on a regular basis, with approximately 7% suffering from chronic loneliness (feeling lonely always or often)

Here you can find a link to the NHS website with information for getting health with loneliness.

Get help with loneliness Read practical tips and advice on what to do if you're struggling with loneliness.

As mentioned in our post on Sunday this week is also cervical screening awareness week.

Cervical screening (which used to be called a smear test) is a free health test on the NHS to help prevent cervical cancer.

It checks for a virus called high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV). If high-risk HPV is present, then the sample will be checked for cervical cell changes. It is not a test to diagnose cervical cancer. Cervical screening is estimated to save around 5000 lives a year in the UK.

Follow this link for more information

Cervical screening Find out about the NHS cervical screening programme (previously called a smear test), including when it's offered, how to book, what happens and getting your results.

We start our week off by looking at Men's Health Week - focusing on this year on men and pharmacy - how to improve this relationship to improve men's health.

Your pharmacist is a highly trained health professional who can assist or point you in the right direction.

Ask them rather than your computer

This coming week sees the start of three awareness weeks namely
Men's Health Week
Cervical Screening Awareness Week
Loneliness Awareness week

Three things that are so important for our wellbeing. Please see our posts during the coming week.

Let's take care of ourselves and others.

Following on from our post about Cholesterol and heart healthy foods.

Click on the link for six cholesterol busting foods, from our colleagues as Heart UK, the cholesterol charity.

Six cholesterol-busting foods There are several foods which actively help to lower your cholesterol too. Try to eat some of these every day.

Cholesterol is one of the risk factors for coronary heart disease.

With a focus on healthy eating this week.

Here is a link to the Heart UK, the cholesterol charity, about foods that affect your cholesterol and heart health.

Eating for lower cholesterol What we eat can make a huge difference to our cholesterol and triglyceride levels and our heart health. Find out which foods will lower or raise your cholesterol.

This week sees the start of British Heart Foundations Healthy Eating week.

The BHF is a great source of healthy recipes which can be explored via the following link. Why not give a few a go.

Recipe search Our recipe finder contains hundreds of heart healthy recipes with full nutritional analysis. You can filter your search by dietary requirements and conditions.

This week is Volunteers Week.

We just wanted to express our thanks for all the work our amazing volunteers do for us.

Never under estimate the impact that you all have on our patients journey to recovery.

Thank you from all of us to all of you

With the current hot temps please ensure that you stay hydrated and safe.

AS we head into the summer months and potentially hotter, we come towards the end of Skin Cancer Awareness month. It is a good time for us all to be aware of key prevention tips:

Spend time in the shade between 11am and 3pm and never burn

Use sunscreen - a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 30 to protect against UVB and at least 4 star UVA protection.

Cover up with suitable clothing and sunglasses