HSE Health and Wellbeing
The Minding Your Wellbeing programme is an evidenced based programme for the public focusing on the promotion of mental wellbeing. It has been adapted from a face-to-face programme into a series of free to view online videos to make it more accessible to the public at this time. Over 800 viewers tuned into the Webinar in November to […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]