Tag Archives: Blood pressure

Know your Numbers – Heart Health Day

29 November 2022 · by · in Councillor Federica Smith-Roberts, Events, health and wellbeing, Health Protection, Libraries, Press releases, Public Health

Following on from the successful ‘Know Your Numbers’ Week in September (5-11 September), Yeovil Library will be hosting encouraging residents to ‘know their numbers’ and will be running a Heart Health Day in their Wellbeing Zone. The event, which will be held on Tuesday December 13from 9.30am to 12.30pm, will encourage the public to check […]

Knowing your numbers can reduce the risk of serious illness 

22 August 2022 · by · in Councillor Adam Dance, covid-19, health and wellbeing, Health Protection, Libraries, Press releases, Public Health, Trudi Grant

Somerset County Council’s Public Health Team is encouraging Somerset residents to get their blood pressure checked for ‘Know Your Numbers’ week.   The national campaign from Blood Pressure UK, aims to raise awareness of high blood pressure (hypertension), encouraging all UK adults to check their blood pressure at home over a week. In Somerset we estimate […]

Over two hundred blood pressure monitors available in Somerset Libraries

17 May 2022 · by · in Coronavirus, health and wellbeing, Health Protection, Press releases, Public Health

More than two hundred blood pressure monitor kits are available for loan from libraries in the county to raise awareness of high blood pressure and to coincide with World Hypertension Day on 17 May. About 3 in 10 adults in Somerset have high blood pressure but 1 in 10 don’t know it. It is a […]