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  1. New NHS blood donor centre opens in Brixton to inspire the local community to give lifesaving blood

    A blood donor sits in chair ready to give blood. She smiles at member of staff who is helping her get set up. Test says Sit back and give blood

    London’s newest blood donor centre has opened in the heart of Brixton, encouraging more south east London donors, especially from Black African and Caribbean backgrounds, to come forward.

    Shop front in Brixton with sign above reading Blood Donor Centre

    Developed by NHS Blood and Transplant in collaboration with community leaders, local businesses and residents, and located on the main shopping artery, Brixton’s first-ever permanent blood donor centre has been designed to welcome the local community and make donating as easy as possible.

  2. 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. Lambeth highlighted patient advocacy in Chronic Pain Month

    Patients sitting in a circle talking with a doctor who is taking notes.

    Patients sitting in a circle talking with a doctor who is taking notes.

    Supporting people with chronic pain is one of our priorities within Lambeth Together. Our Neighbourhood and Wellbeing Delivery Alliance (NWDA) has been working with Centric to set up a Chronic Pain Patient Advisory Group (PAG).

    As September has been Pain Awareness Month we wanted to wrap it up by highlighting how this group strengthens the voice of people living with chronic pain and how it feed into our work in Lambeth.