Children and Young People’s Health

Children and Young People’s Health image

Home » Your Health and Care » Children and Young People’s Health

Across Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes we endeavour to look after you during your pregnancy and when your child is growing up.

Healthier Together logo | Improving the health and wellbeing of babies, children and young people in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

The BLMK Healthier Together is a website that provides consistent and easily accessible healthcare advice for parents, young people and pregnant women/people.  Information on the website can be translated into over 100 different languages enabling people to access the self-help support and information they need.

Visit our Healthier Together website: https://www.blmkhealthiertogether.nhs.uk/

View all news

Latest news and highlights

News

4 October 2024

NHS issues advice on symptoms and screening as Breast Cancer Awareness Month…

October marks the UK’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the UK and, although it…

News

3 October 2024

New RSV vaccine rolled out across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

A new vaccine to protect against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is being rolled out across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes to prevent serious infections this…

News

2 October 2024

Upgrades to Kempston and Ampthill Health Centres to offer more space for…

Building works have been completed at two health centres in Kempston and Ampthill, adding extra clinical space in time for more patients to be seen this winter. The new clinical…

News

2 October 2024

Coronation Street story leads to advice on sepsis symptoms

People in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes have been encouraged to be aware of the symptoms of sepsis, amid a storyline about the condition in Coronation Street. In the popular…

News

1 October 2024

Residents across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes urged to stop smoking this…

Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Board is encouraging residents across the region to stop smoking this Stoptober. In the last few years, 2.5 million people across England…

News

26 September 2024

Staff with 1,500 years of NHS service are celebrated at awards ceremony

NHS workers in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes have been thanked and celebrated for more than 1,500 years of dedication to their careers at a long-service awards ceremony earlier this…