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  1. Lambeth residents celebrate healthy ageing at the Age Well Festival 2024

    Cllr Windle has blood pressure check

    More than 400 residents from across the borough attended the Age Well Festival at the Oval cricket ground on Saturday 5 October 2024, hosted by Lambeth Council’s  Age Friendly team. 

    A key priority for Lambeth Together is to improve health and care to our older residents.

  3. Workplace health checks coming to Lambeth in new national pilot programme

    Lambeth Health Champions standing in front of Lambeth Health and Wellbeing bus, smiling with thumbs up

    Lambeth is one of the first local authorities chosen to pilot health checks in workplaces and online that will protect more than 130,000 people across the country from diseases such as heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes.

    Lambeth secures heart and circulatory system disease prevention pilots

    Lambeth Council has been selected to run two new pilot programmes that aim to cut the risk of diseases of the heart and circulatory system (cardiovascular disease).

  4. Big health boost for Black communities

    Photo of Lambeth Together and Inspire staff at the Black Communities Health and Wellbeing event

    More than 400 local people joined a special health and wellbeing day on Saturday for the borough’s Black communities. It combined culture, entertainment, stalls, health screening, sports and expert support to highlight and improve health issues.

    Lambeth: Big health boost for Black communities

     

    It was organised by Lambeth Together – a partnership between Lambeth Council, the NHS and the voluntary sector – alongside the inspire programme which was set up after the Covid-19 pandemic to tackle the big health inequalities faced by Black people in London.