{"id":191238,"date":"2025-06-17T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191238\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:44:10","slug":"farmers-in-cirencester-encouraged-to-get-health-checkup-at-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191238\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers in Cirencester encouraged to get health checkup at market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Isolation and loneliness are phases often expressed by our farmers from all kinds of different farming backgrounds,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Farmers are telling us that they don&#8217;t have time to do their farm work if they take time out to seek help so that puts even more pressure on them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other checks will include checking body mass index, blood pressure and heart rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team will also check for signs of diabetes &#8220;if there is a clinical need&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jule Zatman-Symonds, deputy chief nurse for NHS Gloucestershire, said farmers often suffer because they are an &#8220;overlooked&#8221; group for health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Often the issues experienced in our local farming communities can be overlooked because as a group they may be reluctant to seek help or find the time to attend appointments, which can then lead to poorer health and wellbeing outcomes,&#8221; she explained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Isolation and loneliness are phases often expressed by our farmers from all kinds of different farming backgrounds,&#8221; she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114697828038788687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}