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Public health teams provide advice, information and services to the public and also to health and social care staff.

They work with their colleagues across the Health and Care Partnership.

Services include:

  • contraception and sexual health
  • drugs and alcohol support
  • emotional wellbeing support
  • health protection, for example coronavirus
  • stop smoking support

To access your local Public Health team and their public health reports, visit your council website:

Bedford Borough Council

Central Bedfordshire Council

Luton Council

Milton Keynes City Council

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Latest news and highlights

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…