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Here's the papers for Friday's meeting. Look forward to seeing you all at the CLC, Keel Row, 1.00pm - 3.00pm.

Agenda, Word 43KB
Minutes, Word 34KB

This first of monthly bulletins contains information on new health improvement material available to those of you involved in public health improvement activities. Any comments on the bulletin including what you would like to see in future editions please do not hesitate to contact me with your comments. For all of you working to improve health in Sunderland, Gateshead and South Tyneside download edition 1 now!

Information Bulletin No. 1 July 2008

Check out this photostory using local photos and audio promoting Breastfeeding awareness.

This year’s campaign will be encouraging mothers from low-income backgrounds to initiate and continue to breastfeed their baby. The campaign focuses on encouraging women to access the support that will help them to breastfeed for longer, and the strapline, ‘Breastfeeding: every day makes a difference to your baby’, reflects the message that each day a women continues to breastfeed is another day the child receives important health benefits from its mother’s milk.

What’s going on in Gateshead!

Bosom Buddies celebration evening at Pelaw Social Club
Friday 16th May
7pm – 11pm with disco, buffet and raffle.
Tickets £4.00 available from Heather Stone at Felling Children’s Centre
Tel: 433 5639

“Buddies at Saltwell Park” – Saltwell Towers
Saturday 17th May
10 am – 4 pm
Information stands, colouring activities, craft, raffle, music and movement, face painting, raffles.
Contact Felling Children’s Centre
Tel: 433 5646

Minutes from the last meeting to download

Minutes 25.04.08, Word 63KB

The National Library for Public Health (NLPH) is an online specialist library of the National Library for Health. It replaces the Public Health electronic Library (PHeL). The NLPH was made available in mid-November 2007 with an initial focus on three key areas: Obesity, Alcohol, and Tobacco. The library was relaunched in April 2008.

Here's the agenda, minutes of the last meeting and papers needed for Friday's meeting:

Look forward to seeing you all at the CLC, Keel Row, 1.00pm - 3.00pm.

Download Agenda, Word 44KB Download Minutes from 4th April, Word 65KB
Download Action Plan, Word 67KB Download RNIB Guidelines, PDF 185KB

Community Cohesion and Empowerment: Championing the social, cultural, economic and environmental determinants of health

The Annual Public Health Forum is the largest multi-disciplinary public health conference in the UK, attracting up to 1,000 delegates from all parts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland and overseas.

The 2006/07 Directors of Public Health Annual Reports is a combined report reflecting how public health teams are organised across Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland. The report highlights the similarities and differences between the health problems experienced by the three PCT areas.

National Knowledge Week on Tuberculosis (Infection Specialist Library)
http://www.neli.org.uk/IntegratedCRD.nsf/NeLI_Home1?OpenForm

The National electronic Library of Infection is hosting its next National Knowledge Week from 24th March. It highlights important developments in tuberculosis in the last year, and includes a collection of recent, peer-reviewed publications, expert commentaries and links to useful resources. This is hosted by the National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI-www.neli.org.uk) and the National Knowledge Service for TB, and has been timed to link in with World TB day on 24th March 2008.

http://www.nosmokingday.org.uk/smokers/nosmokingday.htm

Throughout 2008 South of Tyne and Wear NHS will be raising awareness of a range of health issues such as Smoking, Breastfeeding, Heart Health, Cancer Prevention, Mental Health, Flu Awareness, Aids/Sexual Health and Alcohol. Anyone working to improve health in Gateshead, South Tyneside or Sunderland can get support and awareness material from the Public Health Improvement Information Service.

The Governments of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, through each country’s policy documents, have committed themselves to a comprehensive programme of action for protecting and improving the health of the UK population, and reducing health inequalities. The UK countries recognise that in order to meet their ambitious health improvement targets they need a well-informed and dynamic, multi-disciplinary public health workforce. To this end, a coherent, flexible public health skills and career framework has been developed for use across the UK. Click below for further details:

Public Health Skills Career Framework, Pdf 153KB

The North East Teaching Public Health Network (NETPHN) invite you to attend their Inaugural Conference “NETPHN: Helping Bridge the Health Inequalities Gap”

Wednesday 30th January 2008 at the Sunderland Marriott Hotel

No Conference Fee

Download further information and a conference booking form now:

NETPHN: Helping Bridge the Health Inequalities Gap Invite, MS Word 959KB

You may be interested to know that the Indicies of Deprivation 2007 is now available for download. The Indices are used widely to analyse patterns of deprivation, identify areas that would benefit from special initiatives or programmes and as a tool to determine eligibility for specific funding streams.

To download go to:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/neighbourhoodrenewal/deprivation/deprivation07/

Our friends at Gateshead City Learning Centre are hosting a Xmas Craft Fair on Saturday and Sunday 1st/2nd December, 9.30-4.00pm at Gateshead CLC, Unit 13, The Watermark.

That's just along from Tyne Tees TV and close to the MetroCentre.

There's over 40 stalls of goodies and gift ideas - glass, wood, art/photos on canvas, jewellery, embroidery, confectionery, cards and papercrafts and lots more. Bring your purse/wallet!

Special appearances from Sam and Zozo (African Master Drummers) and maybe, just maybe, Santa Claus...

Free Entry. Free Parking. See you there!

Have you heard of a new national campaign called ‘Creature Discomforts’, which features characters made by Aardman Animations.

This consultation period has now closed.

Health inequalities can exist in many dimensions including ethnicity, age, gender, geography and socioeconomic status. The causes and definitions of such health inequalities are complex. Inequalities in health or outcomes such as life expectancy and ill health can be investigated along four broad themes:

• wider determinants of health such as employment, education, housing and environment;
• lifestyles or health behaviours such as smoking, drinking and sexual behaviour;
• secondary prevention e.g. screening, early treatment of conditions to prevent deterioration;
• access to services such as health and social care. Equity of access means equal access,
equal need, where need relates to the level of illness.

This monthly bulletin covers national, regional and local (St Helens & Halton) news, events and other relevant information which relate to the six key areas of the 'Choosing Health' white paper, and some wider public health information.
Read the August issue here

The bulletin is produced collaboratively by the Health Improvement Library, the Primary Care Library, St Helens Health Partnership and Halton Health Promotion Service.

From the Health Informatics Community news web page (14 August):

City & Hackney GPs use Text Messaging to Engage with Smokers
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2446

The new Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Specialist Library - managed by the King's Fund for the National Library for Health was officially launched today.

The library aims to support the implementation of patient, user, carer and public involvement in health care by providing access, in one location, to the best information which is available on the Web. Go to the PPI home page

This monthly bulletin covers national, regional and local (St Helens & Halton) news, events and other relevant information which relate to the six key areas of the 'Choosing Health' white paper, and some wider public health information.
Read the July 2007 issue here

The bulletin is produced collaboratively by the Health Improvement Library, the Primary Care Library, St Helens Health Partnership and Halton Health Promotion Service.

Just some ideas hitting us this afternoon....

why is the blog important - in line with working trends...cross organisations...accessible...accessing the content is learning itself...

need to work on the top tabs...separate pct tabs...?
Resources??????
popup suvey of users, what, when...was it useful and why?
review of the editors....role of the admin
use of the messageboards
meet in september instead of monthly
but meetings still useful...more to discuss....lot to share...
Adobe Connect video conference meeting...for next time
initial terms of ref have been covered...time to experiment with new techs (vle/soc networking etc)
new marketing strategy needed...broad approach
incorporation of Sunderland and ST PCTs
a yourspace page to open more off the wall conversations...
using bc seminar to produce video and exercise online....
the wider workforce - need to look beyond silos

There's a new kid on the block - HILS (Health Information and Library Service for Gateshead and South Tyneside PCTs) blog. Aimed at slaking your thirst for Health info this newly launched site will be a first port of call for those needing to access expert library services across the PCTs.

www.cehi-hils.org.uk

England goes smoke free on July 1st 2007. Peter Wright, Environmental Health and Trading Standards Manager for Gateshead Council discusses the benefits and implications for businesses and employers on this podcast....

Peter Wright discusses Smoke Free Gateshead (6.0MB mp3)

The “Gateshead Health Group�? is a group of people in Gateshead with Learning Disabilities. They meet regularly to talk about how they can improve their health and the health of others with learning disabilities.

Patricia Hewitt: Secretary of State for Health

In February 2007 members of the group visited London to meet the Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt. They wanted to talk about the work of their group and ask if the health of people with learning disabilities is a priority for the NHS.

Click on the link below to view a 20 minute video following them on their journey to London.

Watch the video (wmv: 22m.15s)

Watch LoFi version (Windows Media)

Watch HiFi version (Windows Media)

Gateshead Grid for Learning wishes the CEHI community a Happy Healthy Christmas....we look forward to working with you in the New Year.

Have Fun!

More video clips have been added to the site this afternoon....with more to follow.

Now, who's going to be brave and add some podcast audio?

Commissioning is an important element of securing effective services. This new guide by Jackie Gray and Mark Lambert offers structured guidance on 'how to do it'. Please use, comment and improve!

Download file

As you can see we've been busy bunnies revamping the CEHI site....with a new winter graphic theme and lots more...

preview of spring theme to follow in april07

We hope you'll enjoy the new video and podcast areas and the tagging of new posts to aid in information retrieval.

In particular we've spent some time re-thinking the category structure of the site - this is not quite complete yet. Have we missed anything? Is it logical and easy to use? You can feedback your opinions and suggestions by using the comments feature below.

Thanks!

Baby bites, a wishing well garden, a breast feeding directory, a men’s health group – just a taster of over fifty community development activities revealed in the Gateshead 2006 community development census.

The census collates community development work undertaken in more than twenty different statutory and voluntary groups. How developed is your community?

Out Now
A census of community development activities in Gateshead 2006: A report for Gateshead Public Health Partnership by Jackie Gray, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Directorate, Gateshead PCT, September 2006

Download Report (Word:73KB)
Download results of community development census (Excel:69KB)

For this year’s World Mental Health Day (10th October) in Gateshead we are aiming to “promote positive steps towards protecting mental well-being for everyone�?.

This is in line with the international theme of WMHD which focuses around building awareness of mental health issues.

In order to promote positive steps towards protecting mental well-being we would like to offer a ‘market stall’ event and a selection of tasters for anyone to try on 10th October.

Download Event Flyer (PDF:625KB)

TAKE PART IN THE GATESHEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENSUS
– WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND THE BOROUGH

Gateshead Public Health Partnership is undertaking a census of community development activities across Gateshead. Many groups and individuals have already been approached directly and have returned their completed forms. But, we haven’t been able to personally contact everyone out there.

If you haven’t been approached then please help us to make sure your work is recognised in the census. You can help by downloading and completing the census form below and then return it to the address on the form by the end of August.

Time is running out – don’t delay.!! Please post any questions, queries or comments on the weblog or contact jackie.gray@ghpct.nhs.uk

Download community development census form (Word: 44KB)

Choosing Health - Getting it going in Gateshead

an hour to walk, talk and be informed

- Health walk in your area

- Talk to the Director of Public Health

- Get information about health to support you in your work

18th July 10.00 – 11.00 Drop in Centre, Hookergate School Conference Room

18th July 12.30 – 13.30 Kibblesworth Millenium Centre

18th July 14.30 – 15.30 Whickham Library

19th July 10.00 – 11.00 Walk in Centre, Bensham

19th July 14.00 – 15.00 Pelaw Surgery

These events launch the 2005 DPH Annual Report

Download DPH Annual Report 2005 (PDF: 1.5MB)

Check out the new Gateshead Healthy Schools weblog to get a flavour of health initiatives, events and successes across this sector in Gateshead.

Dr John Rees – Director of Public Health – West Norfolk PCT will be visiting Gateshead today.
On his itinerary: a visit to Gateshead City Learning Centre and a discusssion with CEHI touching upon blogs, the conversational web and much else.

Find out about West Norfolk PCT

Just a reminder that the CEHI RSS feed URL changed when the site relocated to a new domain name.
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If you have subscribed to the feed in the past please revisit your newsreader and amend the feed URL to:
http://www.cehi.org.uk/index.xml

Thanks

Please Note:
the weblog training for site editors scheduled for Friday 31st March at 9.30 has now been cancelled.

If you're reading this...check to see if LIveHelp is enabled (top left).
Why not click the icon and have a chat with me...about blogs, cehi online, the weather, the novels of Anthony Powell, anything, in fact?

You'd be helping us assess the utility of a LiveHelp service for CEHI.

Thanks...

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Visitors are currently unable to leave comments as our authentication token is not being recognised by TypeKey.
We have submitted a support request on this.
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Just a thank you to those colleagues who attended this morning's blog session at Gateshead CLC. Your positive attitude was much appreciated. Hope you get to grips with the blog - please do post.

Download Annual Report (PDF: 1MB)

In the spirit of CEHI we have approached this Annual Report slightly differently - in terms of style, design and content. What do you think...?
Your comments and feedback are welcomed - just click the comments link below

We have installed new discussion boards for the site. Please note that it will take us a day or two to make them operational.

The URL for the CEHI website has changed to:
www.cehi.org.uk
Please amend your bookmarks - www.gatesheadgrid.org/cehi will automatically redirect to the new address.

NB - CEHI Blog Editors
You will shortly receive an email with new logon details for the publishing area. From today, please do not publish to the site until you have received these new instructions.

If you do not receive the email or if you have any problems please email: support@cehi.org.uk

FPH bulletin December 2005: Download file
This is a copy of the bulletin produced by the Faculty of Public Health

CEHI weblog will be temporarily unavailable this morning between 9-11am as we relocate our hosting servers.
We apologise for any inconvenience this downtime may cause.

Following the relocation of GGfL to new premises at The Watermark, essential maintenance will be carried out to the site servers.

As a result, this site will be temporarily down on Monday September 5th. Precise timings unknown. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Launch date:
20 June 2005

Closing date:
5 September 2005

Gateway Ref: 5063

In the White Paper Choosing Health - Making healthy choices easier, there is a commitment to consult widely on the process of drawing up the detailed legislation on smokefree public places.

The key areas covered in this consultation document, where comments and responses would be particularly welcomed, are:

* the definition of enclosed public place/workplace
* the definition of prepare and serve food
* exemptions in general
* placing of signage
* the offences, penalties and defences
* enforcement; and
* timetable.

Department of Health: Consultation webpage (and downloads)

Fresh aims to give you all the information you might need about tobacco issues in the North East.

Individuals as well as local authorities, public sector organizations, private businesses and others will find tobacco facts and information; details about smoke free environments - how to go smoke free, the benefits of effective smoke free policies and available support; stop smoking information and details of local stop smoking services; tobacco resources, and up to date news stories.

Regional action on tobacco is being driven by Fresh - Smoke Free North East. Fresh is funded by local primary care trusts and supported by voluntary and statutory organizations and aims to deliver a comprehensive and coordinated tobacco control programme across the region.

Check out the Gateshead section on Fresh: Smoke Free North East

Dame Yve Buckland blogs with us...

We're here in Manchester at the Healthy Communities Beacon Learning Event. There's a great buzz going on in the room...People are learning from each other, talking excitedly about how they are making a difference in improving health in their own communities. I don't think anyone is going to walk away from today without some ideas on how they can improve what they're doing locally - even the Beacon sites themselves!

Best wishes
Dame Yve Buckland

Over 50 people attended this multi agency event at the Media Centre, Stonehills, to explore next how we can work together to tackle obesity, improve nutrition and increase levels of physical activity.

Thank you to all those who attended and feedback from the event (attached) will assist with planning future events.

Our next events on Sexual Health, June 21st and Smoking, July 11th are currently being planned. Details of these events will be posted on the weblog.

Download Evaluation

Work began yesterday on building CEHI's satellite HILS (Health Information and Library Service) weblog with a collaborative content push from Health Library North partners.

They were attending a Blog Workshop hosted by Gateshead Grid for Learning and found themselves bogging to www.gatesheadgrid.org/hils.

Hi All

The next CEHI weblog meetings will be held at the Dryden Road
Professional Development Centre on the following dates:-

Tuesday 15th February 1.00 - 3.30
Tuesday 15th March 1.00 - 3.00
Tuesday 19th April 1.00 - 3.00
Wednesday 18th May 1.00 - 3.00
Tuesday 14th June 1.00 - 3.00
Wednesday 13th July 1.00 - 3.00
Wednesday 17th August 1.00 - 3.00

A Summary of the event to launch Gateshead Centre for Enabling Health Improvement.

Gateshead Centre for Enabling Health Improvement (CEHI) will support all those people who are responsible for improving public health and reducing inequalities for the Gateshead population and it will recognise and develop the contribution those individuals and groups can make.

This report provides an overview of the Networking event held in July 2004 and the findings from the workshops and also sets out how CEHI will be using the findings.

Download file (PDF: 250K)

Apologies for the short notice and probable inconvenience but the meeting planned for Tuesday January 18th at Dryden PDC has been cancelled. New details to follow.

Government White Paper On Public Health�

What it means for Gateshead�

What it means for me�

Come along to a seminar on Wednesday 2nd February 2005
at the Civic Centre, Gateshead: 9:00am - 12:30pm
Lunch is provided.

If you would like to attend please email your details to Clare Cockburn clare.cockburn@ghpct.nhs.uk
Or contact the Health Promotion Team, 14 Regent Terrace, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8 1LU Tel: 4789061 Fax: 4900621