Healthy Living Pharmacy: Holding an awareness event/campaign on women’s health

• ‘Women’s health’ refers to conditions that most commonly affect women. Therefore, there is no female-health specific tool containing local data; information will need to be sought for each separate condition
• Common female health issues can often relate to sexual health and contraception, breast and ovarian cancer, menstrual problems and pregnancy

• Community Pharmacy England Briefing 011/17: Healthy Living Pharmacy – Holding a health promotion event/campaign.

• Community Pharmacy England Briefing 010/17: Updated NHS Identity Guidelines – NHS logo use by pharmacies.

• Healthy Living Pharmacies page on the Community Pharmacy England website. 

• Social media guide for community pharmacy teams and LPCs.

• Drinkaware – Alcohol facts

• Public Health England – Healthmatters: harmful drinking and alcohol dependence

• Community Pharmacy England – Essential facts, stats and quotes page relating to alcohol use  

• The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education has a number of programmes available on alcohol misuse

• PHE Alcohol Learning Resources – Alcohol IBA in Community Pharmacy e-learning course

• e-Learning for Healthcare – Alcohol

• e-Learning for Healthcare – West Midlands Making Every Contact Count e-learning 

Source: https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/alcohol-facts/

• To keep health risks from alcohol to a low level it is safest not to drink more than 14 units a week on a regular basis

• If you regularly drink as much as 14 units per week, it’s best to spread your drinking evenly over three or more days. If you have one or two heavy drinking episodes a week, you increase your risk of death from long-term illness and injuries

• The risk of developing a range of health problems (including cancers of the mouth, throat and breast) increases the more you drink on a regular basis

• If you wish to cut down the amount you drink, a good way to help achieve this is to have several drink-free days a week

• Drinkaware has many tools and resources that can be ordered from their website

• Consider displaying  AUDIT-C cards in the Health Promotion Zone as conversation starters

• Consider using unit measure cups and ask customers to pour a unit to help them learn what constitutes one unit

• Use props such as beer or drunk goggles to stimulate the effects of drinking

• East Sussex county Council – Alcohol and sensible drinking – health promotion resources

• PHE – Alcohol Learning Resources

• NHS Choices – Drinking and alcohol and alcohol misuse

• Health Education England – Making Every Contact Count