When you want to quit smoking, nothing is more effective than your local NHS Stop Smoking Service, and it's closer than you may have realised. Around the East Midlands there are hundreds of locations equipped in just the way that suits you.
The 'Hand in Hand, Fighting Infection Together' campaign emphasises the importance of effective hand washing to help tackle hospital associated infections like MRSA and C-Difficile - but getting into the habit of washing hands regularly could lower the risk of infections spreading at home, work and other public places.
Same-sex accommodation is important to patients, their family and friends and NHS staff in the East Midlands. Across the region we’re committed to providing same-sex accommodation for those patients being treated in our hospitals. Same-sex accommodation means that patients shouldn’t expect to share sleeping, washing or toilet facilities with a member of the opposite sex.
'Catch It, Bin It, Kill It' is the main message in the Department of Health's Respiratory and Hand Hygiene Campaign, which aims to make us use tissues to help stop the spread of germs.
Many of us have been brought up to cough or sneeze into our hands, but while this is better than nothing, it's really not a good idea. The germs we cough or sneeze out will stay on our hands and we leave them on everything we touch afterwards. They will survive long enough to infect the next person who makes contact with the same spot.
So coughing or sneezing into a tissue that you immediately throw away significantly lowers the chances of you passing your germs on. If you also wash your hands frequently to clean away the germs you've picked up from infected surfaces (and that proably almost everything you touch) you can see how the spread of germs and the chances of you picking up colds or flu could be dramatically reduced.
