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Self care

Helping you to help yourself or someone you care for.

There's lots of information online about how everyone can use self care to improve their health and wellbeing or manage long-term conditions such as diabetes and asthma. 

To help you find the best information more easily, we have highlighted some of the best self care information available online.

We will regularly feature top tips and useful information covering a wide range of topics, to help you manage and live with your condition more comfortably.


Living well with COPD - Free DVD

Living well with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a DVD produced by the British Lung Foundation. It gives practical advice on managing your condition. 

It lasts for 53 minutes and contains 5 chapters:

  1. breathlessness

  2. staying active

  3. living everyday with COPD

  4. good and bad days

  5. Keeping well and managing your condition

The free DVD can be ordered either by:


NHS Choices is a great place to get detailed information on specific long-term conditions. Look for your condition in Health A-Z. Many long-term conditions are covered on the site, including detailed information about the condition, useful tools and links to helpful websites.

The most common long-term conditions are:

 

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How to check your pulse

 

Ellen Mason, Senior Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation shows you how to check if your pulse is regular or irregular.

Top 10 tools from NHS Choices

Below are 10 simple, interactive tools  to help you live a healthier lifestyle.

5 A DAY meal planner
This meal planner makes it easy to get your five a day. It's packed with tasty recipes and compiles your weekly shopping list for you.

Check your drinking
Use this tool to find out if you are drinking too much and to check if the amount that you are drinking could be damaging your health.

Are you a healthy weight?
Calculate your BMI (body mass index) to check your weight and get tailored advice on how to reach your ideal size.

Check your fitness
Take this simple fitness test to find out how fit you are and whether your activity levels need a boost.

Put your diet to the test
Could your diet be putting your health at risk? Find out if you are eating healthily with this short test.

Find out which tests you should be having
Use this interactive timeline to check which NHS tests you should have and when.

Add up what smoking is costing you
This tool works out the financial and health costs of your habit and shows you how stopping will improve your prospects.

Get fitness tips every day

Get useful fitness tips and information about local events sent to your computer each day.

Get support to help you stop smoking
Receive daily stop smoking support to your computer with this 30-day course. It will help keep your willpower high and tell you how much money you're saving.

Health choices video wall
From planning for long-term care to changing to a healthier lifestyle, see how people are making active choices about their health and wellbeing.

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