Awareness Days & Events

Awareness Days 2023 

January

• Dry January
• National Obesity Week (10th - 16th)
• Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (23th - 29th)

February

• LGBT+ History Month 
• Time to Talk (2nd)
• World Cancer Day (4th)
• International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th)

March

• Endometriosis Awareness Month
• Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
• Healthcare Science Week (14th - 20th)
• Careers Week (6th - 11th)
• International Women's Day (8th)
• No Smoking Day (8th)
• Safer Sleeper Week (13th - 19th)
• National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Day (15th)
• National Dieticians Week (20th - 26th)
• Mother's Day (19th)

April

• International Caesarean Awareness Month

May

• Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week (2nd-8th)
• National Weaning Week (4th-10th)
• International Day of the Midwife (5th)
• Hand Hygiene Day (5th)
• World Ovarian Cancer Day (8th)
• Mental Health Awareness Week (15th-21st)
• Nurses Week (6th-12th)
• International Nurses Day (12th)
• ODP Day (14)
• Clinical Trials Day (20th)
• HR Day (20th)

June

• PRIDE Month 
• SANDS Awareness Month
• Volunteers Week (1st-7th)
• BNF Healthy Eating Week (13th-17th)
• National Clean Air Day (15th)
• Clinical Audit Awareness Week (19th-23rd)
• Cervical Cancer Screening Week (19th 24th)
• Healthcare Estates and Facilities Day (21st)
• Father's Day (18th)

July

• NHS Birthday (5th)
• World Embryologist Day (25th)
• PRIDE Liverpool (30th)

August

• Ectopic Pregnancy Awareness Day (1st)
• Breastfeeding Awareness Week (1st-7th)
• Surrogacy Awareness Week (1st-7th)

September 

• Gynaecology/ Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
• Neonatal Intensive Care Awareness Month
• Urology Awareness Month
• Know your Numbers Week (4th-10th)
• Remember us in your Will Week (11th-17th)
• World Sepsis Day (LA)
• Jeans for Genes (13th-19th)
• World Patient Safety Day (17th)
• Annual Members Meeting (21st)
• Macmillan Coffee Morning (29th)

October

• Black History Month
• Speak up Month
• Stoptober
• Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Baby Loss Awareness Week (9th-15th)
• World Mental Health Day (10th)
• Allied Health Professional Day (14th)
• Infection Control Week (15th-21st)
• Global Hand Washing Day (15)
• World Anaesthesia Day (16th)
• World Menopause Day (18th)

November

• Fertility Awareness Week (31st-4th)
• Patient Safety Week (4th-10th)
• LWH Birthday (7th)
• Stop the Pressure Day (16th)
• World Prematurity Day (17th)
• Safeguarding Adults Week (20th-26th)

December

• Christmas Day (25th)
• New Years Eve  (31st)
• New Years Day (1st)