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Kirstie Baxter
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Workforce and Education Directorate
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Please note my new telephone number is;
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Sent: 26 November 2007 13:09
Cc: Amedea DeCataldis
Subject: NW Teaching Public Health Network E-Bulletin, Nov 07
NW Teaching Public Health Network – E Bulletin November 2007
This is the first E-Bulletin from the NW Teaching Public Health Network.
Bulletins will be circulated monthly in the future.
If you would like any further details about the Network, then please contact
Sue Powell, Co-ordinator ([log in to unmask] or by phone at
0161-217-4338).
Contents
1. What is the NW Teaching Public Health Network?
2. Website
3. Dairy Dates
4. News
5. Round up
1. What is the NW Teaching Public Health Network?
The North West Teaching Public Health Network (NWTPHN), part of a national
project funded by the Department of Health, to build public health
capability and capacity.
Key objectives of the Network are to:
· Increase the range and availability of learning
opportunities in public health
· Improve teaching capacity within the region in order to
develop a stronger public health workforce
· Encourage and support organisations and their staff to
understand there contribution to improving health and ensure that are
enables to play their part.
The Network takes a national lead in:
a.. Food, nutrition and physical activity
b.. Information and knowledge management
c.. Local government
d.. Physical regeneration and wellbeing
e.. Strategic Environmental Assessment/Health Impact Assessment
The Network is useful to public health practitioners and local government
employees in addition to those working in higher and further education.
Contact: For further details, please contact Sue Powell, Co-ordinator
[log in to unmask]
2. Web Site
The NWTPHN has a web site which holds the minutes of the Steering group and
all presentations and reports of workshops and meeting held.
Please go to:
http://www.nwph.net/NWPHTN/default.aspx
3. Diary Dates
5th December, EDUCATION FORUM, NWTPHN.
Foresight Centre, Liverpool University.
This Forum aims to review current course provision in the light of the
public health career framework and key skills and to explore how health
promoting universities can be achieved. All practitioners interested in
education and training and tutors working in higher and further education
are welcome. There is no charge for this forum. Please contact Amedea de
Cataldis if you wish to attend ([log in to unmask]).
1st and 2nd April 2007. UKPHA Conference, Liverpool
Details are available at: http://www.ukpha.org.uk
13th and 14th October 2007, NW Public Health Conference, Liverpool
This conference will focus upon arts and health and will incorporate the
CHAMPS annual conference.
Details available soon.
4. News
Health and Social Care Bill was introduced into Parliament on 15th November
2007. It contains measures to modernise and integrate health and social
care.
Details at: http://www.dh.gov.uk
Tackling Obesities-Future Choices Project
This report (Nov 07), was produced by Foresight, the Government’s science
based futures think tank. It provides challenging visions of the future to
help inform government strategies, policies and priorities responding to the
prevalence of obesity in the UK over the next 40 years.
Key findings include:
a.. The obesity epidemic cannot be prevented by individual action alone
and demands a societal approach
b.. Tackling obesity requires far greater change than anything tried so
far, and at multiple levels: personal, family, community and national
c.. Preventing obesity is a societal; challenge, similar to climate
change. It requires partnership between government, science, business and
civil society.
Details at: http://www.foresight.gov.uk
£50m for walking and cycling
£50m has been pledged by Big Lottery to revitalise walking and cycling in
communities. There are 4 projects being considered and you can vote for the
one you think will be most successful. Voting starts online on 29th Nov.
Vote at http://www.thepeoples50million.org.uk
Method Research Programme
The MRC has just launched the new method Research programme. Details found
at:
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/opportunities/index.htm
5. Public Health News Round up (with thanks to Marie McDevitt, Specialist
in Public Health, Stockport PCT) 21st November 2007
Health Service Journal 1 November
a.. The roll-out of the vaccine to guard against cervical cancer poses ‘a
big logistical challenge’ to PCTs, according to the Department of Health
immunisation director. Professor David Salisbury said immunising 325,000 12
years old girls each year against the human papilloma virus, which causes
cervical cancer, is unlike other school vaccination programmes as it is a
course of three injections. He said PCTs must ensure records are kept to
measure outcome. Professor Salisbury added PCTs should foster links between
the vaccine and cervical smear programmers to measure the impact of the
autumn 2008
roll-out.
British Medical Journal – 3 November
a.. Mental health care in prisons has improved but there are still too
many gaps in provision and demand for mental health services will continue
to outstrip the capacity of the NHS to meet the need, a report from the
Chief inspector of prisons has found. The Mental Health of Prisoners is
available at http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons.
a.. A new health watchdog could have the power to close English hospitals
in 24 hours to fight against infections acquired in health care settings,
the Department of Health has announced. The Care Quality Commission will be
able to shut down wards and hospitals; carry out inspections; and fine
underperforming healthcare providers. The government will also give the
regulator new powers that cover private hospitals and healthcare providers.
Health Service Journal – 8 November
a.. The government has been accused of failing to tackle health
inequalities fully because it is too ‘afraid’ of upsetting the electorate.
Nottingham University Professor of Medical Epidemiology, Richard Wilkinson
said politicians and economists were refusing to take on board research that
showed progressive tax reform was the only way to improve health outcomes.
He presented new findings in his report The Problems of Relative
Deprivation: Why some countries do better than others showing that the level
of income inequality in a society is the biggest factor in a number of
health and social problems such as, deaths from drug overdoses, obesity and
teenage pregnancies.
British Medical Journal – 10 November
a.. Three months after legislation banning smoking in workplaces and
public places in England, a Department of Health survey shows that not
having to breathe other people’s smoke and a better atmosphere in public
venues are the benefits the public most enjoys. Almost half of the smokers
surveyed said they supported the law.
a.. Tackling obesity with better nutrition information on food packaging
will be the focus of a BMA meeting later this month. Concerns about some
food producers’ and supermarket’s failure to introduce traffic-light FSA
(Food Standards Agency) labelling will be discussed. A drive to improve
food labelling was introduced by the FSA amid concerns over growing obesity.
The BMA supports the FSA front-of-pack system that uses a traffic-light logo
to warn consumers when products are high in fat, sugar or salt. Some
supermarkets have devised their own food labelling schemes, which the BMA
fears will confuse shoppers.
a.. Health services will come under closer public scrutiny after new
legislation was recently approved. The Local Government and Public
Involvement in Health Bill will begin a ‘fresh approach’ to giving people a
say, according to the Department of Health. From April 2008 existing
patient and public involvement forums will be replaced by 150 Local
Involvement Networks (LINks) which are designed to make it easier for
communities to influence key decisions about local health services.
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