Oxfordshire’s first Autism Alert Card Scheme is being provided by Autism Oxford.  Free to anyone on the Autism spectrum in Oxfordshire, this alert card can be used in case of an emergency.  It carries simple information about Autism, a telephone number for people to call for autism-specific advice and the name and number of a
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It was a tough race until the end, but we can now name Challenge Oxfordshire’s Health Practitioner of the Year 2011! It was a busy month for all of our nominees and us here at Challenge Oxfordshire, but the public have voted and decided that with 31% of the vote, Pippa Shay will be Challenge
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The Oxford Mindfulness Centre (OMC) is going to be running its first mindfulness course open to the general public in October 2011. This course is going to be very similar to the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) course that the OMC provides for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust for people with depression and anxiety related
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Oxfordshire Mind has announced the launch of their new Wellbeing Service across Oxfordshire from the Spring of 2011. The Wellbeing Service provides a range of new services to help people understand mental ill-health, help them identify what keeps them well and offer practical support to help them along a pathway to recovery. It is open
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The Prime Minister officially opened a new £7million care campus in Chipping Norton on Friday. David Cameron, MP for Witney, toured the facility, which comprises the Chipping Norton War Memorial Community Hospital and the Henry Cornish Care Centre, before unveiling a commemorative plaque. Henry Cornish Care Centre and the Chipping Norton War Memorial Community Hospital
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Fit families is a program run by Go Active. GO Active (Get Oxfordshire Active) is a not for profit project that aims to help people do more physical activity. Whatever your age, fitness levels or cost constraints Go Active can people to get fit and active. An important part of the work that Go Active
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In line with national smile month, NHS Oxfordshire is launching an on-line campaign encouraging patients to have ‘regular check-ups’ with their local NHS dentist. The campaign centres on a new micro-site: www.localnhsdentist.com featuring three short videos highlighting patient concerns: Scaredy Kat – scared of going to the dentist Toothy Tony – not having regular check-ups
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For the past year, Oxfordshire has been the home to a new Natural Therapy Practice, Higher Health and Healing, in the beautiful and serene grounds of Cornbury Park, near Charlbury. Lisanne Davidson Dip.ION MBANT NTC CNHC, one of the UK’s leading Nutrition Consultants, has brought together highly qualified practitioners to enable clients to have the
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We all want to be happy and lead richer lives but the frantic pace of modern living means that for many of us this is always just out of reach. We need a way to recapture our joie de vivre and break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness and exhaustion that many of us find
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West Oxfordshire based yoga teacher Sue Baldwin has opened a new yoga studio in Hexagon House Business Centre, which is in Station Lane, Witney. Sue offers both group classes and one-to-one sessions, for adults, teenagers & children. The mother-of-two said that her new business venture, “The Yoga Room, is going from strength-to-strength”. She added: “Finding
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NHS Oxfordshire (PCT) is asking patients for the views and comments on the future of the Kendall Crescent Health Centre, Cuttleslowe and its branch surgery in Wolvercote. Currently an interim arrangement is in place for Summertown Health Centre to provide GP services from the premises at Kendall Crescent and Wolvercote. This ends in November 2011. 
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With parts of UK experiencing the coldest November and December in 25 years, and energy bills increasing a free phone helpline has been set up to advise residents in Oxfordshire how to cut their fuel bills. The Affordable Warmth helpline has been operating across Oxfordshire since April 2010 to advise residents how to keep their
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From 7 March 2011 there will be new day-time services for mental health in Oxfordshire to help keep people well. ‘Keeping People Well’ is a programme designed to prevent people becoming unwell and also can help people who are experiencing mental ill-health progress towards recovery. It consists of two new day-time services: the Well-being service
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If everyone in the UK ate their ‘five a day’ and kept to recommended levels of salt and unhealthy fats, 33,000 deaths could be prevented or delayed every year, an Oxford University study has found. The research, co-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), highlights the difference getting your five a day could make to
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GPs in Oxfordshire have agreed to move ahead with an Oxfordshire wide GP-led commissioning consortium model with strong localities commissioning local health services for the public in response to the Government’s White Paper, Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS. Oxfordshire GPs have also been chosen to lead the way in implementing new government changes to
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With winter well and truly here the message from NHS Oxfordshire is to think twice about where they should get medical help if needed on cold and icy days. Severe weather always puts a strain on emergency services so the public is being urged to ‘Choose Well’ when it comes to selecting their care. James
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Don’t be blind to diabetes – that’s the message following World Diabetes day this weekend. Do you suffer from diabetes? If so then NHS Oxfordshire is offering free eye screening tests to all oxfordshire residents. Their message is mainly aimed at those who are over the age of 12 to make sure that they get
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