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Health Education: Liverpool

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Question for Department of Health

UIN 210454, tabled on 14 October 2014

Question

Steve Rotheram
Labour
Liverpool, Walton
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase self-care education in public health campaigns in Liverpool.

Answer

Jane Ellison
Conservative
Battersea
Commons

Answered on

17 October 2014

Self Care Week 2014 will take place between 17 and 23 November, and is run by the Self Care Forum. This year’s campaign will focus on how many winter illnesses do not need to be treated with antibiotics, and informing people of the advice available from pharmacists. Both Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group and Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust supported last year’s Self Care Week.

There is a range of work underway in NHS England to support self care, including working with Age UK on advice on self care for older people with mild frailty.

All Public Health England campaigns do give advice to the public on actions they can take to improve their health for example quitting smoking, identifying the early signs and symptoms of cancer or eating more healthily and getting more active. All of these campaigns can be used locally to support local priorities. We are giving local authorities ring-fenced funding of £8.2 billion over three years, 2013-14 to 2015-16, to help tackle public health issues.

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