Equip: Events

This event is for parents-to-be due up until the end of June. Speed Bumps is an evening spent chatting to other parents and hearing a little more about what the NCT offers in our area. Come along as a couple, alone or with a friend. Please book in advance. For more information or to book your £3.00 ticket (ADMITS 2) Call Nikki 01384 349263 Email: halesowen-stourbridge-nct@hotmail.co.uk. This was very popular last time and was a great evening.

Promote awareness as to how to help prevent infection in babies before birth.

A day when Samaritans tries to raise as much money as possible to enable us to continue to help people in need of emotional support, no matter what the size of their problems. A campaign that aims to raise awareness of the effects of stress in the workplace and encourages people to take better care of their emotional well-being.

National Libraries Day is one day devoted to all libraries - public libraries, school and university libraries, prison, national, law, business and commercial libraries. A nation-wide celebration of libraries, librarians and library staff in all sectors.

Safer Internet Day (SID) has a theme of ‘Connecting generations and educating each other’, and the slogan "Discover the digital World together…safely!"

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details. Men Get Eating Disorders Too want to further increase awareness of eating disorders in men and challenge the stereotypical assumptions often made. For more info and for ways in which you can get involved go to their website: http://mengetedstoo.co.uk/support-us/raising-awareness/eating-disorders-...

This one-day national conference will consider how investment in sport and physical activity can open up budget options across the public sector and deliver best value for investment. It will explore sport’s potential to help generate efficiency savings, act as a primary conduit for preventative spending and integrate with existing programmes to help develop innovative delivery models for outsourcing and sharing services. Through a series of case studies, delegates will be encouraged to consider how they can use sport as an important strategic tool to cope with the uncertainties of the current public spending environment and the challenges created as a result.

Your chance to help the British Heart Foundation fight heart disease. Join in at work, school or with friends and family. Order your free fundraising kit at bhf.org.uk/red or call 0300 3300645.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

National Doodle Day is all about doodling to help raise funds to support people affected by epilepsy. Since the very first National Doodle Day in 2004, over £200,000 has been raised. Over 1,000 celebrities have taken part in the event since it began.

A Beat Conference Supported by the Royal College of Nursing. Beat are holding a one-day Conference on Eating Disorders in Adults on Friday 2nd March 2012. This event will be held at London South Bank University. Planning for this event is in the early stages however a provisional programme plan is posted below for reference. This page will be continuously updated as and when speakers and topics are confirmed. In the meantime please register your interest in this event by emailing Jaye at professionalservices@b-eat.co.uk.
Booking Form: To book your place at this conference please fill in the booking form, which can be found on our website. If your form and payment is received by January 2nd 2012 this conference will cost £99, that's a £51 saving!!! This costs includes registration, delegate packs, lunch & refreshements and certificates of attendance. Please complete this booking form and return it with payment to Jaye Valori, Beat, Wensum House, 103 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, NR1 1DW to secure your place. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK.

Raising awareness events across the world. Visit the website for more details.

This one day conference will examine how to involve all patients and service users in their own care and how to engage with people who are often excluded. The conference will discuss the notion of meaningful participation which will include how to engage with people who are often excluded. The morning continues with a presentation on widening the net of patient and public involvement with a focus on national and local systems currently in place to capture all patient voices and feedback, offering a, offering a practical guide to develop your knowledge on meaningful participation, patient and public involvement. Our conferences offer Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) certificates and accreditation for your CPD and CME modules.

World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), is on 21 March. On this day, Down syndrome organisations throughout the world organise and participate in events to raise public awareness of Down syndrome.

Sexual Health 2012 brings together leading experts in the fields of genitourinary medicine, infectious diseases, virology and microbiology, to discuss the central issues and current challenges facing the management and treatment of patients with sexually transmitted infections(STIs).

Tick Bite Prevention Week is an annual event run by Lyme disease charity BADA-UK to raise awareness of tick borne disease and bite prevention. Coinciding with the spring onset of tick season Tick Bite Prevention Week 2012 is supported by Mosi-guard Natural insect repellent. Further information and awareness leaflets for public and health professionals are available to download at www.tickpreventionweek.org. Please contact for further information: badauk@imagenuk.com or Press Office: 01943 468010

Time: 0930 - 1630
Venue: London South Bank University, The Keyworth Centre, Keyworth Street, SE1 6NG
Normal Cost: £150
If your form and payment is received by February 27th 2012 this conference will cost £99.
Booking Closes Thursday 15th March 2012.
Early Bird Booking closes Monday 27th February 2012.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Another mix of education & fun.Learn by day and laugh at night. 12 keynote speakers, 12 workshops, 4 exercise and movement programmes in good hotel. Meet like minded people,make new friends and get your questions answered by experts. At Chichester Park Hotel, West Sussex, this is a weekend to remember.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Celebrate World Day for Safety and Health at Work on the 28 April to promote the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases globally. It is an awareness-raising campaign intended to focus international attention on emerging trends in the field of occupational safety and health and on the magnitude of work-related injuries, diseases and fatalities worldwide.

MS Week is a chance for the MS Society to get loud about multiple sclerosis (MS), raising awareness of it by reaching out to people who don't know much about the condition. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

International ME Awareness Month is a worldwide collaboration of ME charities and organisations aiming to raise awareness of the neurological illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).  

May is National Walking Month and Living Streets, the national charity that works to create safe, attractive and enjoyable streets, will be encouraging people to walk with their successful annual initiatives - Walk to Work Week (14-18May) and Walk to School Week (21-25 May). Through these events, they hope to show children and adults how easy, enjoyable and rewarding walking is and how it can lead to real changes in people's habits and lifestyles. To get involved and create your own personal walking log during May, visit www.livingstreets.org.uk

A WHO Patient Safety Initiative. Register your support at http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html

The aim of the day is to celebrate midwifery and to bring awareness of the importance of midwives' work to as many people as possible. This is done in many different ways according to what works best in each country.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Awareness events throughout the UK. Visit the website for more information.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK.

Walk to Work Week is a national challenge run by the charity Living Streets. The Week aims to encourage employees to walk more as part of their commute and working day, and to help workplaces encourage and promote walking to their workforce. Living Streets provides a free online tool to help workplaces and people keep a track of how much walking they do. Walk to Work Week will run as part of the UK’s National Walking Month this May.

Health professionals are being encouraged to think about death and end of life care. The coalition's role is to support changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards dying, death and bereavement.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

The UK’s only awareness and fundraising week for children’s hospices. Visit the website for more details.

World Hepatitis Awareness Day aims to increase awareness about hepatitis B and C.

Awareness-raising events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

May is National Walking Month and school kids all over the country will be snubbing the school run and finding their feet! We all know walking to school is safe, cheap, green and healthy, but did you know it also boosts children's confidence, road safety skills and performance at school? The event is run by Living Streets, the national charity that works to create safe, attractive and enjoyable streets. Get your children walking this May – you can order stickers, walking charts and download free Walk to School Week materials at www.walktoschool.org.uk

AAAW is a national event which gives anyone with an interest in heart rhythm disorders the opportunity to raise awareness and promote better understanding of arrhythmic conditions. For free, Department of Health endorsed information, contact joanna@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk or visit www.aaaw.org.uk

An annual event which celebrates the fantastic contribution that millions of volunteers make across the UK. The Week plays a huge part in raising the profile of the millions of volunteers who regularly contribute to society, while inspiring others to get involved too.

World Awareness Day - patients campaign in the UK and around the world. Please visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details or email enquiries@tamponalert.org.uk

Diabetes Week aims to dispell some of the myths around diabetes and raise awareness of healthy lifestyles. To get involved in Diabetes Week please visit www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetesweek or ring 0207 424 1000.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Bike Week is an annual opportunity to promote cycling and show how cycling can easily be part of everyday life. Demonstrating the social, health and environmental benefits of cycling, the week aims to get people to give cycling a go all over the UK.  Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Organised by 10 national charities: Carers UK, Counsel Care, Crossroads Caring for Carers, Help the Hospices, Macmillan Cancer Support, MS Society, Parkinson's Disease Society, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Vitalise and WRVS. Events and activities every day of the week; over 7,000 in total. Visit the website for more details.

The Week focuses on raising awareness of myeloma in the political, medical and media communities as well as raising awareness through fundraising.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Increasing awareness and prevention of group B strep disease in babies before birth through early infancy by providing downloadable materials and resources for parents, medical professionals, and students. Group B Strep is the leading cause of meningitis and sepsis in newborns. Please visit our website for more details. www.groupbstrepinternational.org

Health Information Week is a campaign throughout the West Midlands to improve access to health information. In the West Midlands region staff from local authorities, public libraries, NHS, voluntary sector, independent information and advice centres have all been working together to make their health resources more available to the public. In most areas your local libraries and information centres will have extra health information available, leaflets for you to take away or sessions to show you how to use the computer to find good quality health information. Look out for posters in your area or visit your local library to find out more. There is more information available on the EQUIP area on NHS local - http://nhslocal.nhs.uk/workforce/equip-information/health-information-week ;including a diary of the large number of events and displays going on in your local area - http://nhslocal.nhs.uk/story/events-health-information-week-4th-10th-july . Contact sarah.greening@westmidlands.nhs.uk for more information.

Raising awareness of donation, and encouraging more people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register. Visit the website for more details.

To raise awareness of Samaritans 24-hour service across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Events to raise awareness worldwide - see website for more information.

Every year on 21 September Alzheimer associations across the globe unite to recognise World Alzheimer's Day. Raising awareness events across the world. Visit the website for more details.

Raising awareness events across the UK. Visit the website for more details.

Promoting recognition of the term "prenatal-onset GBS disease" and the strategies that can help prevent GBS infections duirng pregnancy. Visit website for more details. www.groupbstrepinternational.org

World Psoriasis Day is an annual day specially dedicated to people with psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis. Conceived by patients for patients, World Psoriasis Day is a truly global event that sets out to give an international voice to the 125 million people with psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis. Visit the website for more information.

Movember is the month formerly known as November, where men and women across the globe join together to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues.