Making sense of slimming

Over the past year, the whole nation has heard about the government’s plans create smoke free public places and workplaces.

Scotland has been smoke free since 26 March 2006. Wales joined in the party on 2 April and Northern Ireland went smoke free on 30 April. Finally, England will go smoke free on 1 July.

If you’re in charge of premises or vehicles covered by the new law you will have a legal responsibility to ensure they become smoke free.

If you’re a smoker, could the countdown to the new law be a perfect time for you to halt the habit for good?

The NHS Direct website is now speech enabled. This means that all of our content is now available in audio form.

All you have to do to is to download the free software from the Browsealoud website. Then you can hear the words on the screen by hovering your mouse cursor over the text you want to hear.

The software is easy to install, and theres lots of different ways of customising the software to suit you.

Once you have it, its easy to use and will really help you get the most out of the NHS Direct website.

Over the past couple of weeks many of us have noticed a distinct sense of summer in the air. The temperatures are slowly rising, the days are lasting longer, and rays of sunshine appear almost daily. 

Apart from the changing weather conditions and the lighter evenings, there are other telltale signs that have made thousands of people in the UK aware that hay fever season is upon us.

Sneezy season