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  Get the jab, get flu safe

  If you are pregnant, have a long term health condition or are over 65, you are more at risk of becoming severely ill from flu. However, if you fall into any of these groups, you are entitled to a free flu vaccination. Contact your GP to find out more.

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  Workforce Work Fit

  www.workforceworkfit.com We're looking to you for the best and brightest ideas to get our region involved in all kinds of physical activity at work. Check out our site and see if you and your workplace can take up the challenge. Inspired by London 2012, we're on a mission to help schools and businesses like yours bring exercise into their daily routine and we're looking for the most creative ideas! How could you get your workforce work fit?

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  Deciding right launch - March 2012

  Deciding right is the UK's very first attempt to establish a fully integrated approach to making care decisions in advance for people of all ages -- children, young people and adults. It is being rolled out not only across north east NHS hospitals, with paramedics and in other NHS care settings, but in hundreds of nursing homes, care homes and hospices across the region. Watch teh BBC's coverage of the launch in March...

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  NHS North East - flu campaign launch 2011 ITV coverage

  View ITV Tyne Tees coverage of our flu campaign launch last October - we will soon be gearing up for this year's campaign so make sure you know if you are in an at risk group - ask your GP about the flu vaccine

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  NHS North East - flu launch 2011 - BBC coverage

  View the BBC's coverage of our 2011/12 flu campaign and find out if you need the vaccine this year...

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  BBC Inside Out - March 2012

  The NHS in the north east of England is leading the way in giving people more choice over where and how they might want to die. A pilot scheme, called Deciding Right and the first of its kind in the UK, has been launched in the region. Patients in the north east will be able to record on a form their decisions about their treatment. Hospices, hospitals and health care organisations will then have to recognise these wishes. Presenter and actor Chris Connel looks at how the north east is leading the way in empowering patients to make choices about their own deaths. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17141958

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  National lung cancer awareness campaign

  A national campaign to promote the early signs and symptoms of lung cancer started on 8 May 2012. Nationally lung cancer is one of the biggest cancer killers and we know that there is considerable scope for improvement in outcomes. The aim of the campaign is to raise public awareness of the symptoms of lung cancer and to encourage those with persistent symptoms to present promptly. By catching the cancer earlier, it should be more treatable and the campaign is designed to; give simple information about lung cancer symptoms; provide a clear call to action to see the GP and give a reassuring message that earlier diagnosis improves the chances of successful treatment. This video shows North of England Cancer Network director Roy McLachlan explaining more about the campaign and its potential impact on NHS services across the North of England.

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  Summary Care Record - the pharmacist's perspective

  Laura Smith, senior clinical pharmacist at the University Hospital of North Durham, talks about the benefits that Summary Care Records have brought to pharmacists and how this has helped patients.

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  National bowel cancer awareness campaign

  A national campaign to promote the early signs and symptoms of bowel cancer will start on 30 January 2012. Nationally bowel cancer is one of the biggest cancer killers and we know that there is considerable scope for improvement in outcomes. The aim of the campaign is to raise public awareness of the symptoms of bowel cancer and to encourage those with persistent symptoms to present promptly. By catching the cancer earlier, it should be more treatable and the campaign is designed to; give simple information about bowel cancer symptoms; provide a clear call to action to see the GP and give a reassuring message that earlier diagnosis improves the chances of successful treatment. This video shows North of England Cancer Network director Roy McLachlan explaining more about the campaign and its potential impact on NHS services across the North of England.

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  The Northern Deanery is different

  Welcome to the Northern Deanery - a great place to live and a great place to train.

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  End of life care - Jim's story

  The north east is the first region in the UK to adopt a broad-based public health approach to end of life care issues. This video of Jim shows how doctors in Northumberland are working with residents of care homes to make sure all of their end of life care needs are planned for.... The first ever UK charter for 'A Good Death' was launched in the north east last year, setting out proposals for the kind of care and support which people who are dying, their families and carers, can expect to receive from local health and social care organisations. To find out more about A Good Death visit http://www.agooddeath.co.uk/

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  The March Marches 2011 - stamping out mental health stigma

  People across the north east have been on a March March to stamp out mental health stigma as part of the Time to Change campaign... One in four people in England are likely to experience a mental illness in their lives and Time to Change aims to break down stigma by getting people talking about mental health -- whether that's their own experiences or keeping in touch with family, friends and colleagues affected.

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  Your NHS is evolving...to make life better for you!

  The NHS in the north east is continually improving the quality and convenience of local health services. By putting patients at the very heart of everything we do and every decision we take, our focus is on continuously improving those things that really matter to patients - the outcome of their healthcare. Extensive work is underway across the region to empower people to take control of their own healthcare, to better manage their own long term conditions, to avoid being unnecessarily admitted to hospital and, most importantly to increase focus on prevention and avoid becoming ill in the first place. This work is also helping the NHS to save money and work more efficiently. By keeping people well and in control of their own healthcare, it means our hospitals -- which are big, expensive places to run - are better able to care for those who need emergency or specialist treatment -- the things which can only be done in hospital. This short film shows how some award winning services across the region are already evolving to make life better for patients by delivering more personalised, convenient, high quality care closer to, and often within, the patient's own home....

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  My Dad - www.justvisiting.com

  We're the first region in the country to support www.justvisiting.com -- a FREE not-for-profit website which aims to make life easier for people who have a loved one in hospital. This short, poignant film shows the sobering, but unfortunately commonplace, scenario of someone visiting and caring for a loved one in hospital and how www.justvisiting.com can help.

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  Dr Tricia Cresswell explains the importance of the flu vaccine

  Deputy medical director of NHS North East, Dr Tricia Cresswell, explains who is at risk from flu and why it is so important for them to get this year's winter flu vaccine

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  Seasonal flu vaccine - get protected

  Patients and frontline staff from across the north east explain the importance of getting vaccinated against seasonal flu.

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  Flu - protect yourself and others

  The NHS in the north east has launched a wide spread public awareness campaign to encourage people who are at risk from flu to get vaccinated and protect themselves against both seasonal flu and swine flu this winter.

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  Lord Howe visits north east to discuss NHS White Paper

  As part of a ministerial tour of England, Health Minister Lord Howe visited the north east on 15 September to hear first-hand the region's views on the NHS white paper 'Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS', which sets out plans to put patients at the heart of everything the NHS does, improve results and empower NHS staff.

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  Don't get flu, get vaccinated - ITV Tyne Tees 4 October

  The NHS in the north east has launched a widespread public awareness campaign to encourage people who are at risk from flu to get vaccinated and protect themselves against both seasonal flu and swine flu this winter. For more info visit: http://www.northeast.nhs.uk/news-centre/news-releases/release/?id=158

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  Time to Change roadshow

  It's Time to Change in the north east as England's most ambitious programme to end mental health prejudice launches in the region. Visit www.time-to-change.org.uk and make your pledge to end mental health discrimination today!

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  Time to Change - Stephen's story

  Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end the stigma and discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. The nationwide campaign is being led by mental health charities Mind and Rethink and funded by £16m from the Big Lottery Fund and £4m from Comic Relief. The campaign in the north east is being supported by NHS North East through the New Leaf New Life programme. Find out more and make your own personal pledge to end mental health discrimination at www.time-to-change.org.uk

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  Time to Change - Shiela's story

  Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end the stigma and discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. The nationwide campaign is being led by mental health charities Mind and Rethink and funded by £16m from the Big Lottery Fund and £4m from Comic Relief. The campaign in the north east is being supported by NHS North East through the New Leaf New Life programme. Find out more and make your own personal pledge to end mental health discrimination at www.time-to-change.org.uk

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  Protecting your NHS from fraud

  Who pays for NHS fraud? We all do. A short film

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  Careers - therapists

  Find out about the different therapy careers available in the NHS.

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  Careers - support roles

  Find out about some of the many support roles available in the NHS.