Arif Rajpura

A team from a range of local health organisations will be handing out leaflets with information Photo: Blackpool FC Community Trust

Blackpool FC Community Trust: Healthy heart advice on Valentine’s Day

Blackpool comes together for Alcohol Recovery Conference

Blackpool comes together for Alcohol Recovery Conference

Blackpool Victoria Hospital is among the trusts facing financial measures

Savings of £350m mean there will be "some really difficult decisions"

The MMR vaccine has protected children

Successful vaccine programme has protected Blackpool's children

Fluoride helps reduce dental decay (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty)

Doctor dispels fluoridation myth after online claims about school milk

Blackpool’s annual health report says many people have been diagnosed with depression

Report says one in five people in Blackpool are suffering depression

A walk round the park is enough to get active

Blackpool bidding for share of £250m Sport England cash

Could Fluoride in the water help improve dental health?

Top doctor says this simple measure could help combat dental crisis

The club has announced new shirt sponsors this year

Council welcomes change of shirt sponsor at Blackpool FC

Smoking is now responsible for an estimated 2,700 cancer cases a year in the North East.

6000 cigarettes and vapes seized as Blackpool shop shut down

Local Choice Mini Market, on Lytham Road in Blackpool (image: Google)

Blackpool corner shop closed by court over 'tobacco sales to youths'

Fast food is causing obesity

Healthy food awards helping to tackle high rates of obesity

Vaping carries health risks, say doctors

Top doctor backs government plans to crack down on youth vaping

Smoking causes many poor health outcomes

How health chiefs hope to improve life expectancy in Blackpool

Traffic is one of the main causes of air pollution

Decision already made over low emission zones in Blackpool

The new shirts on sale in the club shop

Blackpool FC's shirt sponsorship deal slammed as 'wrong decision'
Blackpool Football Club has come under fire for choosing a betting company as its main shirt sponsor for the new season amid concerns over gambling addiction issues.
Shelagh Parkinson

Young people are at risk from vaping

Under-age vaping putting Blackpool youngsters at risk

Town hall chief officers pay has been highlighted

Blackpool Council's highest paid officers earnings total more than £1.2m

Families can benefit from the Healthy Start scheme

Blackpool families urged to claim healthy start payments

The Lighthouse

New alcohol support service will have clinics across Blackpool

Members of the Blackpool Together Team

£500,000 to help Blackpool's most vulnerable residents get through winter

The latest health report paints a bleak picture of health in Blackpool

Deprivation continues to claim lives in Blackpool says latest health report

National statistics show vaping among 11-17 year olds on the increase.

Blackpool health director's concern over increase in vaping among under-18s

Energy bills are a concern for many people

Blackpool Winter Gardens to host cost of living advice day

Blackpool Tower will light up blue (pictured alongside Star Flyer ride)

Why Blackpool Tower will light blue (spoiler, it's a micro reason)

Alcohol abuse leads to hospital admissions

New strategy to tackle alcohol abuse in Blackpool

The new food recycling pledge initiative has been launched by Blackpool Food Bank

Blackpool Food Bank's Big Food Pledge recycling scheme to help those in need
A new initiative to help needy families has been launched in Blackpool.
Tony Durkin

There is a need to reduce hospital admissions

Moves to take pressure off Blackpool Victoria Hospital admissions

Blackpool FC's shirts will feature the logos of VisitBlackpool and GET VOCAL

Blackpool tourism businesses score a boost with football sponsorship deal

Blackpool Town Hall on Talbot Road

£1.1m cost of Blackpool Council's top earners revealed as council tax bills go u...

Dr Arif Rajpura

Blackpool's high Covid death figures 'don’t tell the whole story'

Dr Sakthi Karunanithi, Director of Public Health for Lancashire County Council

Lancashire public health chiefs welcome Covid Plan B move

Mouth ulcers are a telltale sign of hand, foot, and mouth disease

Outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth in Blackpool

Dr Arif Rajpura

Blackpool medics Covid advice as cases rise

Blackpool has some of the worst life expectancy rates in England

27-year life expectancy gap between men living in Blackpool and Chelsea, new rep...

Asylum seekers are being accommodated in the Metropole Hotel

Asylum seekers offered vaccines as part of Blackpool health checks

Director of public health Dr Arif Rajpura is among those objecting to the application

Booze fears could block Blackpool off-licence plan

Blackpool Council's director of Public Health Dr Arif Rajpura said he welcomed the announcement that children would be offered their first dose of a Covid vaccine.

Plans to vaccinate pupils aged 12 to 15 from Monday welcomed by Blackpool's heal...

Blackpool defender Reece James in the new kit

Blackpool FC backing council's Get Vocal mental health campaign

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Age and poverty main risk factors in Blackpool during Covid pandemic says new re...

Blackpool FC striker Gary Madine gets the Covid-19 vaccine. A vaccine van will be at Bloomfield Road ahead of the Seasiders’ match with Cardiff City, so supporters can get their jabs

Vaccine van offers Blackpool fans the chance to get Covid jab ahead of Bloomfiel...

People say the problems faced by Blackpool can be found all over the country

Blackpool hits back at 'sensational' tabloid claims of drug users cooking heroin...

Blackpool ranked fourth in a recent study of mental health investment in the UK

Blackpool ranks among top in UK for investment in mental health counselling

The vaccination van team

Blackpool's travelling vaccination van hands out 3,000th Covid-19 jab

According to the analysis, Blackpool is the most deprived local authority in England, and also experiences the lowest life expectancy in England for both males and females.

Chief Medical Officer seeks national strategy to improve health of coastal commu...

Blackpool over the weekend

The Covid situation in Blackpool on 'Freedom Day'

The vaccine van is back in Blackpool this week

Blackpool Covid-19 vaccine van heads around resort again

People waiting for their vaccine

Fylde coast Covid-19 vaccine van making its way around Blackpool, Fleetwood and ...

The Covid-19 vaccine van will be coming to the Fylde coast next week

Covid-19 vaccine van heading to Blackpool, Fleetwood and St Annes for mobile app...

Mereside Primary Academy in Langdale Road warned parents in a letter it was "not safe" to call their children out of school instead of waiting patiently.

Headteacher's warning to parents amid playground safety concerns at Mereside Pri...

Anchorsholme Academy headteacher Graeme Dow said the recent number of pupils being sent home from Blackpool schools was "far worse" than at any other point during the pandemic.

Blackpool headteacher's fears for education disruption as Covid cases and school...

800 resort homes had doors knocked by council workers

Just 19 Covid vaccine appointments set up in Blackpool after door knocking on 80...

Tourists enjoying the seafront at Blackpool on June 12, 2021 (Picture: Neil Cross)

'Older children and young adults' behind Covid surge in Blackpool and not touris...

Blackpool now has the "enhanced response area" status that was given to the rest of Lancashire last week

'No ban on coming to Blackpool', says council leader as town becomes "enhanced r...

Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus on July 14. Pic: PA

Blackpool gets enhanced support as Covid rates rise

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