External Links
- County Durham and Darlington Community Health Services
- Health Protection Agency
- NHS Direct
- NHS Choices
- North East Public Health Observatory
Downloads
Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS - White Paper (719kb) - Adobe Reader required.
County Durham JSNA (Joint Strategic Needs Assessment) 2008-2009 (18.4Mb) - Adobe Reader required.
Darlington JSNA (Joint Strategic Needs Assessment) 2008 (2.6Mb) - Adobe Reader required.
The Health Improvement Service
The Health Improvement Service is part of County Durham and Darlington Community Health Services. The Health Improvement website provides information about healthy living, our programmes and services and partnership work that aims to improve the health of the local population.
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Health Profiles 2010
The Health Profiles for 2010 are produced by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) and provide a snapshot of health in County Durham and Darlington.
Stop Smoking Service
Welcome to the County Durham and Darlington NHS Stop Smoking Service. We are a friendly, experienced team of Stop Smoking Advisers and Specialists who support local people like you to stop smoking. Our team has helped 45,000 local people to stop smoking over the last 11 years. People who get help from the Stop Smoking Service are 4 times more likely to succeed than those who try without support.
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.
Go to: Time to Change - Let's End Mental Health Discrimination
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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.
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.
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.
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,
Go to: Confidential sexual health advice direct to your mobile phone