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Somerset Health and Wellbeing Advisory Network
Helping you to help others
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Vaccination Clinics In Somerset
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Bridgwater Town Hall, High St, TA6 3BL
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Every Friday in April: 9am - 5pm (closing at 4pm on 15th April)
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Bridgwater Community Hospital, Bower Lane, Bridgwater, TA6 6JE
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Every Sunday in April: 9am - 7pm
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Auction / Market at Junction 24 Market Way, North Petherton TA6 6DF
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Sat 23rd April: 9am - 3pm
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Sydenham Pantry, Community Hub, Fairfax Road, Bridgwater, TA6 4HX
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Wed 27th April: 1pm - 6pm
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Hamp Pantry, Grenville House, Rhode Lane, Bridgwater, TA6 6JE
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Thurs 28th April: 1pm - 6pm
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Minehead Community Hospital, Luttrell Way, Minehead, TA24 6DF
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Every Tuesday April: 8:30am - 7pm
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Everyday Saturday April: 10am - 5pm
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Wellington Community Hospital, Bulford Lane, Wellington, TA21 8QQ
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Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm
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Priorswood Community Centre, 13-14 Priorswood Place, Taunton, TA2 7JW
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Sat 30th April & 14th/28th May:
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Wiveliscome Community Hall, West Street, Wiveliscombe, TA4 2JP
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Wed 27th April: 2pm - 6pm
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Mendip
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Cheese & Grain, Market Yard, Justice Lane, Frome, BA11 1BE
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Sunday 24th April: 9:30am - 5pm
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South Somerset
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Chard Leisure Centre, Fore Street, Chard, TA20 1GR
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Wed 20th April: 9:30am - 5pm
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ICON Campaign 18th - 28th April
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ICON aims to normalise infant crying and to promote the importance of utilising every interaction as an opportunity to generate conversations that include fathers and men during the maternity and transition into parenting journey; supporting their understanding of how comfort methods may help soothe their baby and how a discussion about coping, and making a personal coping with plan, may prevent incidence of non-accidental injury (NAI) and abusive head trauma (AHT)
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Abusive Head Trauma (AHT) causes catastrophic brain injuries, which can lead to death, or significant long-term health and learning disabilities. Most babies start to cry more frequently from two weeks of age, with a peak usually being seen around 6-8 weeks. Organisations coming together for ICON week aim to spread the messages to help normalise infant crying and share coping techniques to help parents to deal with the stress it can cause.
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- Infant crying is normal and it will stop! Babies start to cry more frequently from around 2 weeks of age
- Comforting methods can sometimes soothe the baby and the crying will stop. Is the baby hungry, tired or in need of a nappy change?
- OK to walk away, if you have checked the baby is safe and the crying is getting to you. After a few minutes when you are feeling calm, go back and check on the baby
- Never, ever shake or hurt a baby. It can cause lasting brain damage and death.
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Catch up Film
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This week Clinton draws attention to the ICON campaign, and offers simple advice on how to cope with a crying baby.
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National Healthy Start Scheme
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The NHS have launched a digital scheme, which offers a prepaid card to those applying for Healthy Start. This replaces the paper vouchers. This card will be automatically topped up every 4 weeks. This animation - explaining how to apply online.
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If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, the Healthy Start scheme can help you to buy healthy foods like milk or fruit and get free vitamins.
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Wellbeing Wanderers
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Starting Wednesday 27th April,
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17:00 –18:30 at 1610 Robert Blake, Bridgwater, TA6 6AW (3G Pitch) - £3 per session. You don't need to book you can just turn up on the day.
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Weekly football sessions for men, of all abilities welcome. Football can be a huge boost to your state of mind.
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Emotional Health & Wellbeing Resources Available
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Please share widely the below resources available for colleagues, staff, members of the public and of course yourselves
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Every Life Matters is at the heart of our approach to suicide prevention. It is the belief that suicide is everybody’s business and we can all have a part to play in suicide prevention. Over the last two years we know there has been a rising concern regarding suicide and we hope these courses will help build competence and confidence in addressing these concerns. Click here for more information on courses available.
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R;pple Suicide Prevention - R;pple is a new free interceptive tool designed to present a visual prompt when a person searches for harmful keywords or phrases relating to the topic of self-harm or suicides. It will intercept and provide the person with ideas for help and support. Please have a look at the website and download the tool. Somerset Library service have installed onto all public facing computers.
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Age 40-74? Get your free NHS Health Check
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Free NHS Health Checks are available for anyone between the age of 40 and 74 years, every five years, who does not have a pre-existing long-term condition.
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It can help lower people’s risk of developing heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and some types of dementia.
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NHS Health Checks are available at your GP surgery, at participating pharmacies or at a number of specialist clinics at Libraries and other community spaces – for a full list go to: https://bit.ly/freehcheck.
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Extended! Somerset Food Resilience Grant
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Another chance to apply for the new Somerset Food Resilience Grant! The deadline for applications has been extended to the 31st May 2022 - or when the fund runs out.
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The Food Resilience grant fund is being provided to help Somerset communities that support or directly work to develop food resilience. Any community group, charity, organisation, and agency in Somerset can apply for a maximum of £2,000.
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We want to hear from you
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Your feedback is valuable to us and we'd like to receive more from you and your communities. Ideas on different ways to engage and issues you are spotting locally will help us to reduce barriers to adopting measures that protect us all from Covid.
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Coronavirus Helpline
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If you require support please contact your local authority.
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Mendip District council call 0300 303 8588
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Sedgemoor District council call 0300 303 7800
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South Somerset district council call 01935 462462
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Somerset West and Taunton council call 0300 304 8000
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Somerset County Council on 0300 123 22224
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Resources and Further Information:
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The Somerset Local Outbreak Management Plan outlines how we, the council, will work with the NHS Test and Trace Service, PHE, the NHS and other partners to ensure a whole system approach to preventing and managing local outbreaks. This can be found here.
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