Health Promotion

The health promotion website for County Durham and Darlington provides information on healthy living, health improvement and health development programmes, and information about services and partnership work that aim to improve the health of the population. For more information about swine flu please click on the links to the right for the Health Protection Agency, NHS Direct and NHS Choices. The Swine Flu Information Line on 0800 1 513 513 will be updated regularly.

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Time to Change - Let's End Mental Health Discrimination

Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems.

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Get High Quality Evidence and National Guidance from HPAC

HPAC enables you to search for high quality evidence and national guidance and provides in most cases direct links to the original documents.

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Narrowing the Gap in County Durham and Darlington - Public Health Toolkits 2008

This section contains toolkits for local areas that are designed to provide a snapshot of health and assist organisations that are working to tackle health inequalities.

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Beyond Getting the Message Across

This is a toolkit for developing health information leaflets and posters. It embeds health literacy and social marketing principles in the process of developing health information publications and provides examples where new media may be more effective at reaching the intended audience. Includes guidance on using photographs and images (non clinical) and photo consent forms.

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Where to find help to quit smoking

If you would like help and support to quit smoking there are one to one, group and drop-in quit smoking sessions being held in community centres, libraries, pharmacies, GP surgeries, health clinics and many other places across County Durham and Darlington.

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Confidential sexual health advice and contraception

The places listed in this section can give you free, confidential sexual health advice, free condoms and emergency contraception (the morning after pill). The section also lists places where young people can sign up for and use a C-Card to get free condoms.

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Confidential sexual health advice direct to your mobile phone

Completely confidential mobile textback services are available for young people. You can ask a sexual health question and get an answer quickly and confidentially,

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