Lanarkshire Healthy Lifestyle & Weight Management Service
Being physically active and eating a healthy balanced diet are important for not only our physical health, but also our emotional and mental health. Lanarkshire’s Weight Management Service offers expert and practical advice to anyone who requires support to lead a healthier lifestyle.
NHS Lanarkshire’s Healthy Lifestyle & Weight Management Service offers free support for people, by helping them to design their own healthier lifestyle. We can help you to access the different types of free physical activity and healthy weight services available in Lanarkshire.
There are many physical and mental wellbeing benefits linked to a healthier weight and being more active, we can have better mobility and energy, more restful sleep and improved mood.
A healthier weight will also reduce the risk of Type II diabetes and can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, which helps reduce our risks of heart disease and strokes.
How can Lanarkshire Healthy Lifestyle & Weight Management Services support me?
We have a variety of health and wellbeing resources and support to empower you to lead a healthier lifestyle:
Generic health and wellbeing support:
Stop Smoking Support
Giving up smoking is not something you have to do on your own, Quit Your Way is a free NHS stop smoking service available in Lanarkshire to help you succeed.
For more information, call 0800 84 84 84 or visit NHS Inform’s Quit Your Way website.
You can now use our ‘Click to be Contacted’ service, select your local or nearest area, leave your name, preferred contact method, and we will in touch with you.
You can also receive free stop smoking support from your local pharmacy, find your nearest community pharmacy.
Well Connected App
Well Connected is an app that makes it easier for us to take part in & benefit from activities & services we know to improve our wellbeing.
The Well Connected programme has been shown to help people by:
- Improving self-confidence & self-esteem
- Reducing low mood
- Reduce feelings of stress
- Helping people deal with some of the problems that are causing low moods such as money worries, loneliness & unemployment
- Helping people develop positive ways of coping with the challenges of life
- Increasing opportunities for social contact
- Learning new & useful skills
- Improving community spirit
- Increasing the number of people taking part in arts, leisure, education, volunteering, sports & other activities
Our newly updated Well Connected App is free to download on the App Store & Google Play, or search for Well Connected Lanarkshire.
Sexual Health
For more information on sexual health visit:
- Lanarkshire Sexual Health – for information on free condoms by post, key information on sexually transmitted infections and how to access sexual health services.
- NHS Inform – Sexual Health Advice during Coronavisus Pandemic.
- The Blood Borne Virus and Sexual Health Promotion Team offers a range of workforce focused and non clinical online training/information opportunities on such topics as Blood Borne viruses, school based relationships, sexual health and parenthood education, sexual health and relationships education and LGBT identities. For more info on these, please email jude.irwin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Mental Wellbeing
If you are struggling with your mental wellbeing, help and support is out there.
It’s ok to feel this way, and talking can help. For tips on how to look after your mental health and wellbeing visit:
