Drop into Smallbridge Library for healthy living advice

We all know we need to live a more healthy lifestyle but where to start? We are having a healthy living drop-in session at Smallbridge Library on Thursday 5 August between 2pm and 4pm.

You can pop in and have a chat with a Health Trainer and have a free health check, including:

• Checking your Body Mass Index (BMI)
• Help with stopping smoking
• Advice on healthy eating and nutrition

And much more.


For more details call Smallbridge Library or Health Trainer Jill on 01706 510844

A cup of coffee at Langley Library

Langley Library is now having a regular coffee morning, held on the last Monday of every month between 10.30am and 11.30am.

At our first coffee morning on Monday 29 March 2010 you will be able to receive free health advice from local NHS Health Trainers. Or just come along to read a book or have a chat and meet new people in a cosy environment.

Everybody is welcome, we look forward to seeing you!

Books on Prescription

The Books on Prescription launch on Wednesday went extremely well with the scheme being introduced to a capacity audience.

Our first customer visited us this lunchtime. We hope that this will become a popular and useful service in the Borough.

Many of the titles in the Books on Prescription Collection are self-help books which many people will find useful. With this in mind there are copies in the Adult Non-fiction Collections of some of our libraries. These titles, plus a selection of other self-help books in the Non-Fiction Collection, are listed in "Prescribe Yourself A Book" on the Web Catalogue.

Books on Prescription

We've been working with Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust to set up a "Books on Prescription" service to provide help for people with emotional or psychological problems including stress, eating disorders, depression and bereavement, to be launched next month.

"Books on Prescription" is a health scheme used successfully in other parts of the UK that we hope will come to be used by all GP surgeries in the Borough. It provides a collection of "self help" books that doctors and health professionals can prescribe to their patients to help as part of the recovery process. Once somebody's been given a prescription they can come to any of our libraries and we'll lend them a copy of that book. All loans on the "Books on Prescription" scheme will be confidential.

Items in the Books on Prescription Collection are only available via prescription, though there may be other copies of these titles available in the Adult Lending collections.

The scheme will be launched on Wednesday 7 November at the Manchester Golf Club in Middleton.

World Heart Day

World Heart Day takes place on Sunday 30 September. It began in 1999 in an effort to create awareness and educate the public about preventative measures to reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Healthy living titles in our libraries include books on preventing heart disease; modifying your diet to reduce the risk of heart disease; and giving up smoking, which can be a major factor in heart disease.