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  1. Local charity invites LGBTQIA community to shape exciting new peer support group

    'Exciting news' accompanied by a graphic of a rainbow kite

    Lambeth and Southwark have a thriving LGBTQ+ community. But many people who identify as LGBTQIA+ report feeling isolated, misunderstood, and unsupported, leading to increased levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.

    A local mental health charity has recognised this urgent need and has taken urgent action by successfully securing funding for a new wellbeing group: Queer Minds.

  2. Talking to people in Lambeth about cancer

    visitors to cancer awareness raising event sit at table and talk to stall holders

    On Thursday, 12 September 105 people attended an event at Brixton Library organised by GP practices from the Hills, Brook and Dales Primary Care Network to raise awareness about the importance of cancer screening.

    people attending cancer awareness event at library are sitting down at a table and talking to cancer experts about prevention and NHS screening programmes

    Signposting people to local cancer services

    At the third of their cancer screening awareness raising event, Hills, Brooks and Dales PCN outreach team supported people who attended to speak to organisations including ovarian cancer charity Ovacome , Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing, Macmillan, Carers’ Hub Lambeth, Cancer Don’t Let It Win, Prostate Cancer UK and Carers4carers on topics like breast, bowel, prostate and cervical cancer screening, as well as smoking cessation and lung health.

  4. 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).