Health and Social Care

The majority of Council services relating to Health and Social Care are run and supported by Gloucestershire County Council. The information below provides information on services ranging from locating your local hospital to coping with illness and from healthy living advice to managing mental health.

Health Information

• Learning Disabilities - About learning disability
• Dementia/ Alzheimer's disease
• HIV and AIDS
• Heart Disease - Advice on Heart Disease and Keeping a Healthy Heart at Cardiac Matters (UK)
• Cancer - Cancer Research UK
• Epilepsy - Epilepsy information

Healthy Living

• Quit Smoking Information - Advice to help you stop smoking
• Having a balanced diet - Food Standards Agency - Nutrition
• Sexual health
• Alcohol issues
• Fitness - Fitness: Exercises, Fitness & Nutrition, and Fitness Articles
• Allergy UK

Mental Health

• Dealing with - Depression, Panic attacks, Phobias, Self –harming, Personality disorders, Anger

Life Events

• Pregnancy and after care
• Bereavement
• Marital issues - Marital Problems - Marital Problems That Often Lead to Divorce
• Redundancy

Medicines

• Medicine advice
• Prescription Information

Local Health Information

• Stroud Hospitals League of Friends
• Gloucestershire Carer's project
• GUIDE Information Service - Gloucestershire's Health, Social Care and Disability Information Service
• The Key - A special information service for any family in Gloucestershire with a disabled child