Health Matters

How to find an NHS dentist

The NHS website can help you find an NHS dentist for yourself or your children, including emergency dentists.

Healthy Start card and vitamins

What is Healthy Start?

If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

If you’re eligible, you’ll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. Payments will be added to your card every 4 weeks. 

You can use your card to buy: 

• plain liquid cow’s milk
• fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables
• fresh, dried, and tinned pulses
• infant formula milk based on cow’s milk

You can also use your card to collect:

• Healthy Start vitamins – these support you during pregnancy and breastfeeding
• vitamin drops for babies and young children – these are suitable from birth to 4 years old

If you’re receiving a qualifying benefit and are pregnant or have parental responsibility for at least one child under the age of 4, you can apply online now for the NHS Healthy Start card.

Support with Substance use

Change, Grow Live - The Place provide support to  young people up to the age of 25 with anything related to drugs and alcohol. They also provide a safe, confidential space for children and young people who are affected by someone else’s substance use (sometimes called ‘hidden harm’). 

Their goal is to help you build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to spot risks and respond in the best way possible.

Quit smoking

Want to stop smoking but don’t know where to start?

People choose to stop smoking for a number of reasons. Whatever your reason it's worth remembering that smoking remains the single largest preventable cause of early death in the UK. You are making a good choice. Not only will stopping smoking improve your health, but you’ll feel more rested, energetic and have more money too! 

For advice, support and more information on how to quit smoking, please click on link below.

Help with Gambling

Gambling-related harms are all of the ways that gambling can have a negative impact on a child or young person’s physical and mental health, their relationships with family and friends, how much money they have, or their school/college work or their job.

Nott Alone

Nott Alone is a dedicated website providing information and support for young people’s mental health across Nottingham city and Nottinghamshire. It includes information for young people aged under 25, parents and carer, and professionals.

For information and advice on gambling related harm in children and young people, its impact on mental health, and to find out where to go to get help in Nottingham, visit https://nottalone.org.uk/browse/gambling. Use the tabs at the top right of the webpage to toggle between information for children and young people, parents, and professionals.  

GamCare

GamCare is the leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling harms. They aim to create awareness about safer gambling and treatment, and encourage an effective approach to safer gambling within the gambling industry.

For more information visit: https://www.gamcare.org.uk/

The National Gambling Helpline 0808 8020 133, provides structured support for anyone who is harmed by gambling.