What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
People in the Muslim community who live with diabetes are being offered help and advice from Diabetes UK to stay healthy during Ramadan – and to mark the occasion safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ramadan will run from 11/ 12 April for 29 or 30 days. The exact dates will
Today (14 November 2019) is World Diabetes Day (WDD) and health leaders in Leeds are urging residents to be more aware of the condition and learn how they can prevent or manage it. Diabetes is a condition in which the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood is too high
One in ten Leeds residents will be affected by diabetes – either because they have it already or are at high risk of developing it. Tens of thousands more know someone with the condition. Yet despite it becoming increasingly common, the condition can be hard to understand and difficult to
A Beeston woman has taken the bold step of taking on a running challenge each month until Christmas, in order to raise money to support Diabetes UK. Mel Arendt, 42, was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2015 after a routine health check. She’s taking on the running challenge after
A Leeds GP has put together a short video offering advice to people with Type 2 diabetes who are gearing up for Ramadan which is expected to start on 5 May*. Dr Mohammed (Mo) Sattar, a GP at Woodhouse Medical Practice, has been working with Leeds GP Confederation to run
Sponsored content A slimming Consultant who supports people in Belle Isle to lose weight each week says men shouldn’t be shy about joining a slimming group. Slimming World and the Men’s Health Forum are calling for men to get support to lose weight. Tace, who runs the Belle Isle Slimming
The NHS in Leeds is asking people what they’d like to see in a new diabetes strategy for the city. The strategy will outline plans to reduce the number of people in Leeds who develop the condition and identify everyone who has it, while also looking at how we can
Leeds City Council is encouraging people across Leeds, who are eligible, to take up the opportunity to receive their free NHS health check. In Leeds, there are over 200,000 people aged between 40 -74 without a pre-existing cardiovascular condition who are eligible to receive one. While uptake of the NHS
For quite some time now it has been clear that there is a North-South divide when it comes to Government funding for infrastructure. The facts speak for themselves. Public capital spending per person in the North is only half that in London, according to the think-tank the Institute for Public
This is the story of Aidan, Julie and Chris Holmes’ son who recently was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. As written by Aidan’s Mum Julie Holmes, top volunteer at BITMO GATE. Julies husband Chris is also a Volunteer at BITMO GATE and like Julie volunteers elsewhere. On Saturday 27 September 2015