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Posts for August 2025

Aug 26 2025

International Overdose Awareness Day: Free Support is Available

Posted by Lizz Reay, CEO

This Sunday, 31 August, is International Overdose Awareness Day. This campaign began in Australia in 2001 as a small gathering of people affected by overdose and is now the largest annual event of its kind.

Related tags: Alcohol & other Drugs (AOD), Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Lithgow, Penrith

Aug 03 2025

Shining a light on local connector programs this Loneliness Awareness Week

Posted by Lizz Reay, CEO

Loneliness Awareness Week, which runs from 4 to 10 August, is a timely reminder of the profound impact loneliness and social isolation can have on our health and wellbeing.

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Lizz Reay is the CEO of Wentworth Healthcare, provider of the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network. Previously Deputy CEO of Nepean Blue Mountains Medicare Local & Nepean Division of General Practice, she has an extensive background in public health.

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