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Your health

Staying healthy

Encouraging healthy lifestyles is important to improving the overall health and wellbeing of the Leeds population.Enabling and supporting people to improve their own health is the most important thing we can do to change this. Eating healthier food, taking more exercise, not drinking alcohol to excess and stopping smoking can make a real difference to how long we live and how well we feel and we are working hard on all these fronts to make an impact.

NHS Leeds has put together various programmes to support people in making healthier lifestyle choices. Use these pages to learn more about how you can help yourself to be healthier.

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Choose Well

A&E is not anything and everything

Remember A&E is not always the most appropriate place to go especially if you do not have life-threatening problems, find out how you can Choose well to get the right treatment at the right time.