Health and wellbeing awareness days

Urology Awareness Month - September 2025

Urology Awareness Month is an annual campaign running in September to raise awareness of urology diseases.

Urology Awareness Month

East and South East Asian Heritage Month - September 2025

A chance to celebrate, acknowledge and learn about the incredible ways in which these communities have helped shape the UK.

ESEA Heritage

Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month - September 2025

A month raising awareness of the symptoms and need for more research into pulmonary fibrosis.

Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness

National Pensions Awareness Week - 15 to September 2025

A week for raising awareness on the importance of preparing and saving for retirement.

Pension Awareness Week

Know Your Numbers Week - September 2025

Encouraging adults to know their blood pressure numbers and take the necessary action to reach and maintain a healthy blood pressure.

Know your numbers

World Suicide Prevention Day - 10 September 2025

Promoting worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides.

International Association of Suicide Prevention

Suicide prevention

World Sepsis Day - 13 September 2025

An opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against sepsis.

World Sepsis Day

World Patient Safety Day - 17 September 2025

Increasing public awareness and engagement, enhance global understanding, and spurring global solidarity and action to promote patient safety.

World Patient Safety Day

International Day of Sign Languages - 23 September

Celebrated annually across the world on 23 September every year along with International Week of the Deaf.

The UN

Organ Donation Week - 22 to 27 September 2025

Encouraging people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register and encourage people to share their donation decision.

Organ Donation Week

World Pharmacists Day - 25 September 2025

A day to recognise and celebrate the crucial role that pharmacists play in building healthier communities everywhere.

World Pharmacists Day

ICON week - 25 to 29 September

Raising awareness of infant crying and supporting carers to cope

ICON week

World's Biggest Coffee Morning - 26 September 2025

Support Macmillian by hosting your own coffee morning to raise awareness.

Macmillan

UK National Inclusion Week - 29 September to 5 October 2025

Designed to celebrate everyday inclusion in all its forms.

Inclusive Employers

Speak Up Month - October

A national campaign to illustrate the part which we all play in fostering a culture where people can speak up and be confident they will be listened to.

National Guardian's Office

Stoptober - October

Encouraging the nation’s smokers to make a quit attempt for the month of October and beyond.

Quit smoking - NHS

Sober October

Get involved in Sober October by going alcohol-free in October to raise money for people with cancer.

Sober October

National Cholesterol Month - October

Devoted to raising funds for HEART UK and raising awareness of the dangers of high cholesterol.

Heart UK

Black History Month - October

A nationwide celebration of Black History, Arts and Culture throughout the UK.

Black History Month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month - October

To raise awareness for the disease and to raise funds for research. Information and free resources to help you with local campaigns.

Breast Cancer Now

Back Care Awareness Week - 7 to 11 October 2025

Raise awareness of the problems back pain can cause, as well as prevention and treatments.

Musculoskeletal guidance

National Work Life Week - October 2025

For employers to show employees, and potential candidates your organisation has a flexible working culture and appreciates work life balance.

Working Families

National Pharmacy Week - October 2025

Acknowledges the contributions pharmacists and technicians make to patient care in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and other healthcare settings

National Pharmacy Week

Allied Healthcare Professional Day - October 2025

Celebrating the AHP profession across England

AHP day

Baby Loss Awareness Week 9 to 15 October 2025

Give anyone touched by pregnancy and baby loss a safe and supportive space to share their experiences and feel that they are not alone.

Babyloss Awareness

World Mental Health Day - 10 October 2025

An opportunity to raise awareness and advocacy against mental health stigma.

World Mental Health Day

Coming Out Day - 11 October

An awareness day for LGBTQ+ people to celebrate being their authentic selves.

International Pronouns Day - 15 October 2025

Seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace.

Pronouns Day

Infection Prevention Control Week - 19 October to 25 October 2025

Infection prevention control week is about raising awareness for the important role we all play in keeping patients safe from infection.

Infection Prevention Control Week

Developmental Language Disorder Day - 17 October 2025

Developmental Language Disorder affects 1 in 14 people causing difficulties understanding and using language for no known reason.

DLD Day

World Menopause Awareness Day - 18 October 2025

Raising awareness for women who are feeling lost and going through Menopause and need support.

International Menopause Society

Menopause and the workplace

Pharmacy Technician Day - 21 October 2025

Recognising the extraordinary contributions of pharmacy technicians to patient care and their essential role within the healthcare team.

Pharmacy Technician Day

International Stammering Awareness Day - 22 October

Stammering associations, individuals and groups around the world organise events to raise awareness of stuttering.

Islamophobia Awareness Month - November

Raising awareness of Islamophobia and highlighting the positive contributions of Muslims to society.

Movember - Men's Health Awareness Month - November

Responsible for thousands of moustaches on men’s faces. Aims to raise vital funds and awareness for men's health.

Movember UK

Mental health in the workplace

UK Malnutrition Awareness Week - November 2025

Raise awareness and understanding of preventable malnutrition in local communities and with health and social care professionals.

Malnutrition Awareness Week

National Self Care Week - 18 to 24 November

Self Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on embedding support for self care across communities, families and generations.

National Self Care Week

National Stress Awareness Week - 4to 8 November

Raise awareness, publicity and profile of stress and its impact, and reduce stigma while promoting the importance of wellbeing and stress reduction.

National Stress Awareness Week

Remembrance Sunday - 9 November 2025

Remembering the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms.

Remembrance Sunday

Armistice Day - 11 November 2025

To commemorate the end of hostilities of World War 1

Armistice Day

Inter Faith Week - November 2025

The aims of Inter Faith Week are to strengthen good inter faith relations at all levels.

Interfaith Week

Psychological Professions Week - 11 to 15 November

An annual opportunity for the psychological professions to come together to celebrate the impact

PP Week

Anti-bullying Week - 11 to 15 November

Anti Bullying Week is organised by the Anti Bullying Alliance (ABA). The ABA is made up of anti-bullying organisations from all over the UK.

Anti-bullying Alliance

Tackling bullying in the NHS infographic

Trans Awareness Week - 13 to 19 November

This week helps raise the visibility of transgender people and address issues members of the community face.

GLAAD

Disability History Month - November to December

A month of activity to raise awareness and support people with disabilities.

Disability History Month

International Men's Day - 19 November

Making a positive difference to the wellbeing and lives of men and boys.

UK Men's Day

Transgender Day of Remembrance - 20 November

An annual observance to remember those who have lost their lives to anti-transgender violence.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (GLAAD)

Carers Rights Day

A national day to make carers and the wider public aware of the rights and support available to carers.

Carers Rights Day

16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence

A time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls.

16 Days of Action
Domestic violence facts and support

World Aids Day - 1 December

An opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness.

World Aids Day

International Day of People with Disabilities - 3 December

Since 1992, the United Nations IDPD has been annually celebrated around the world.

UN IDPD