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Issue 1 December 2020

Launch of the HSE Healthy Ireland Progress Report

  You are invited to the launch of the: HSE Healthy Ireland Progress Report 2015 – 2020 on November 2nd 2021 from 2 – 3.30pm  Also speaking at the launch we are delighted to welcome our guest speaker Prof Cíaran O’Boyle, Founding Director at RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health who will share his expertise […]

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Issue 1 December 2020

International Men’s Day – 19th November

HSE Health & Wellbeing hosted a webinar ‘Men’s Mental Health in these Challenging Times’ to mark International Men’s Day. The webinar was chaired by Fergal Fox, General Manager, Communications & Stakeholder Engagement, Health & Wellbeing. As part of the national #KeepWell resilience campaign, presentations were given and a panel of speakers discussed the impact of […]

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Issue 1 December 2020

FREE stop smoking service and FREE stop smoking medication for HSE Staff

Through the staff  HSE Health & Health wellbeing budget we are delighted that from January 1st 2020 the staff health and wellbeing initiative has now secured funding for staff to access free stop smoking medications (i.e. a free GP visit and a prescription for a drug called Varenicline (Champix) and or combination nicotine replacement therapy). […]

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Issue 1 December 2020

START – making the most of family time

Spending more time together as a family has been one of the positives from Covid-19 restrictions, understandably parents and guardians are finding it difficult to manage screen-time, treat consumption and physical activity at home. The START campaign from the HSE, safefood and Healthy Ireland is encouraging parents to increased family time as an opportunity to […]

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Issue 1 December 2020

Good parent/child relationships are protective when it comes to sexual health

On the 10th of November, Minister Frank Feighan launched the report Talking about sex and sexual behaviour of young people in Ireland. This is the latest publication from the ESRI/HSE Health and Wellbeing joint research programme which is investigating health data from the Growing up in Ireland national study. Talking about sex and sexual behaviour […]