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Health and Wellbeing Centre Open Day

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Local people are invited to attend the Paignton Health and Wellbeing Centre community open day between 10am and 2pm on Saturday, 7 September.

The event is being hosted by frontline staff teams and voluntary & community sector partners from across Torbay, who will be showcasing the broad range of services and community support that is available from the health and wellbeing centre. These include:

· Free health check using the health pod ( height, weight, blood pressure, hearing and body fat measurements)

· Fun craft activities for children

· Strength and balance class – free taster session

· Healthy lifestyle advice service (no smoking, exercise and weight control)

· Meet staff and volunteers

· Contraception Services

· Fun, health-related activities for children

· Physiotherapy

· Podiatry

· Abdominal Aortic Aneurism (AAA ) Screening

· Depression & anxiety service

Also find out more information about the HOPE programme, wellbeing coordinators, technology-enabled care, benefits and debt advice and much more.

For information on Paignton Health and Wellbeing Centre follow the link below.

https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk/visiting-us/paignton-health-and-wellbeing-centre/

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Apart from five years studying in Oxford I’ve lived most of my life in London where for many years I was Head of English in a prestigious girls’ school, but since taking early retirement and heading West to be nearer to my two daughters - settling in Torbay with my wife, Anna, in 2011 - I’ve worked in the voluntary sector. I took on the role of Service Provider, for example, promoting the Red Cross Torbay Navigators Project, while now I’m a Trustee and part of the Media Team for our local Healthwatch. I’m a governor at Torquay Academy, too, giving me the chance to stay up to date with what’s happening in the world of education. Other interests, aside from friends and family, include art and art history, reading - from contemporary fiction and poetry to Elizabethan/Jacobean literature - history, politics, cooking, walking, and music, in particular Bob Dylan, the blues, and early Elvis. I love writing, too, with one novel published so far – Elvis in Wonderland – and another, Who’s There?, that still needs plenty of work!