Get Healthy Online At Your Local Library!

Your local Cambridgeshire County Council Library could be the place to find the answer

Whatever their health query, local people are being challenged to get the answers they need by going online with a little help from the UK Online Centres run by the County Council’s Library, Archives and Information Service

The Library Service is the local NHS Choices Community Champion, and has teamed up with the national NHS Choices website to offer those without IT or surfing skills the chance to get to grips with computers and to find their way around the site

Cambourne Library and Health Centre is the ‘flagship centre’ for NHS Choices in Cambridgeshire and sessions to help people make the most of the new website, are being run on Monday’s at 10.00 am, 11.00 am and midday. To book people should call on 0845 045 5225 or come into the library

NHS Choices is the single most reliable source of health care information for the public online. It brings together information and services from sites such as NHS Direct and Healthspace, as well as details of over 700 conditions and treatments, lifestyle tips and directories of local services

Beverley Bryant, Programme Director for NHS Choices, added: “NHS Choices makes choice and personalised healthcare for all a reality. The aim is to empower individuals to seize control of their health, improving the health and well-being of the community as a whole.”

For more information on NHS Choices, go to www.nhs.uk