Improving health on Rose Hill
Glad to see that our Oxford estates are getting “health trainers” - local people employed to help their neighbours lead more healthy lives. Sometimes when you read these ideas in government announcements, you wonder whether you’ll ever see them in your area, don’t you? Well, this is one initiative that will hopefully help Rose Hill residents make healthier decisions.
Our local health trainers are Samantha Curran and Michelle Thomas. You can contact them on 07867 668 177 (Sam) and 07876 475 023 (Michelle), and they will be based at the SureStart children’s centre on The Oval. According to the article in the Oxford Mail, they’re both raring to go:
Ms Curran, who has nine years’ experience in mental health, hopes to act as a role model.
She said: “There are all sorts of problems which people might not want to bother a doctor about, such as smoking and being overweight.”
Ms Thomas, who has worked as a personal fitness trainer, said: “We will offer a new type of service and if this contributes to helping keep people out of hospital in the long run, so much the better.”
