The next meeting of the CEHI Weblog Working Group will take place on Friday 16th July between 1pm and 3pm at the City Learning Centre, 6 Keel Row, Metro Riverside Business Park, Gateshead, NE11 9SZ. 

Download the agenda and the  minutes of the May meeting.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Gateshead Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Workshop on 22nd June at the City Learning Centre.  The 2010 Gateshead JSNA Report and all the supporting evidence can be found at www.gateshead.gov.uk/jsna. There were some technical problems on the day downloading some of the larger documents.  All documents are now downloading successfully. Other materials used on the day can be downloaded below:

Gateshead JSNA index

Gateshead JSNA USeful Websites

Dementia Service Review Exercise

Weight Management Intervention Exercise

The next meeting of the CEHI Weblog Working Group will take place on Friday 21st May between 1pm and 3pm at the offices of the City Learning Centre, Unit 6, Keel Row, Metro Riverside Business Park, Gateshead.  Follow the links to download a location map, the agenda and the minutes of the last meeting.

Youth workers visiting us at Clarendon for health information.

Go to link to see the minutes of the latest Weblog Working Group

Cehi minutes Friday 19th March 2010.doc

Give your suggestions for a new project name for appropriate Mental Health Services for younger people aged (18-35) in Sunderland

See below for details

Innovations Flyer HT.pdf

Thank you to everyone who supported No Smoking Day 2010!

Enter your activity/event for the No Smoking Day Organiser of the Year Awards 2010.  It doesnt matter how large or small your event/activity was, all these events are important in helping to raise awareness of the importance of giving up smoking.  See below for details.

Healthy Highfield Week is an opportunity for everyone to see what is going on in Highfield, in the West of Gateshead, and to get involved in healthy activities and sessions.

The Primary Care Trust is an NHS organisation responsible for improving the health of the local community and providing health services to the population.

The Public Involvement Team is committed to involving patients and the public in the work of the Primary Care Trust.

If you would like to be involved in designing and developing health services you contact us on 0800 783 2556 or e-mail getinvolved@sotw.nhs.uk

Blog training session at Gateshead City Learning Centre on Monday March 15th and Friday March 19th, 9.30-12.00. The session will take place in Unit 6 diagonally opposite and across the carpark from the CLC main building.

This is a hands-on session and you will get experience of multimedia web-publishing.

Please feel free to bring along "real" content, text, images or multimedia that you wish to publish, either on a memory stick or disc.

Please note: if arriving by car please ensure that you park in a Gateshead CLC tagged space.

Directions and location information can be found at the ictGateshead website

Training Materials
Basic User Guide to Blogging with CEHI

Five a day for Health and Hapiness - Five Ways to Well Being

A briefing/planning session is being held on Wednesday 28th April at the Media Centre, Stonehills, Shields Road, Gateshead, NE10 0HW starting at 12 noon until 2pm.

Our Alcohol IBA course is free to all NHS staff across Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland.

Identification and Brief Advice (IBA) is effective in helping people who drink in a harmful way to reduce their alcohol consumption and our IBA course will enable you to:

• Develop a "prompt" tool to help you "Think Drink" for common presentations


• Raise the issue of alcohol related harm using a simple and non-confrontational "opening"


• Calculate "Units" confidently


• Assess a clients readiness to change and modify your response accordingly


• Deliver advice in a short, personalised and structured way

The training can be delivered as an "open" group session, where participants may come from one or more of these services, or as a "closed" session, which will be restricted to members of your team. Our course is in two parts:

1. An on-line pre-learning programme (max of 60 mins). This gives the theory behind IBA and describes the effects of drinking at a higher than recommended level.

2. A practical skills workshop (90 to 120 mins). This will equip you with the practical skills and confidence to identify the early signs of harmful drinking and to raise the issue of alcohol with the patient. You will be able to accurately assess their risk and learn how to say the right things that will help the patient.

Visit www.alcoholfirstcontact.co.uk to find out more.

...to all those who attended and particpated during the CEHI blog training session on Friday. Lots of interest and pertinent questions...I hope you all left feeling encouraged to begin posting to the site. Apologies for the tech problems half way through - it happens.

Thanks again...and if you have any problems, let me know either via email or through the commenting link below.

Please come to the lanch of the Health-Check Drop-In at Gateshead Central Library, with Gateshead Health Trainers peter bell and Darren Taylor, on Monday 15th of February from 11:30AM-13:30PM. Get your Mini-MOT Health-Check or Sign-Posting Public Health Information.

At the CEHI training session I learnt :

• CEHI as an information sharing resource across South of Tyne and Wear.


• The simple way in which we as an organisation can share information with everyone.


• How we can all interact with each other on the topics within the site.

Is your hubby a couch potatoe? Get him signed up now for a new weight management course at the Lyndhurst Centre, Wednesdays 6-8pm. Enrol now!

Self Care for You is a 9 hour free course funded by the Department of Health. Covering 6 activities designed to support you to improve your health and change your lifestyle, this course will make your life sing!!
improve your confidence levels, learn about nutrition & exercise, manage stress and more!

Every fortnight at the Elgin Centre in Deckham Gateshead there will be a chance to get a FREE Health Check including Blood Pressure, Height, Weight and Cholestral test.

Why not pop along on a Wednesday (next session 27th Jan) between 9am and 12noon for a free health check and information around healthly lifestyles

Join National Wear Red Day on Friday 26 Feb or choose your own event - anything goes as long as it's red! For further information go to the British Heart Foundation's link below. There is also a free fundraising kit that has lots of posters, stickers, games, ideas and a little collection box. Send them your details below and they will send out your kit straight away.

Thank you to all those people who attended the Health Impact Assessment training sessions this week. If you came along, why not leave a comment and let us know how you found them useful.

Visit the health impact assessment page on CEHI for more resources.

Obesity is on the rise. Do you want advice on how to lose weight.
email Gail@neas.nhs.uk

The forum's next meeting is Feb 5th 10am till 12 at St Judes Church Laygate, South Shields

Agenda: Council Funding (see below)

Please note that Friday's training session will take place at Gateshead City Learning Centre UNIT 13, Keel Row, The Watermark, Gateshead NE11 9SZ

Free car-parking outside the building is available. Please ensure that you park in one of our signed spaces otherwise you risk being clamped. Directions to Gateshead CLC can be found at ictgateshead.org

Coffee and tea is available. Lunch will be provided from mid-day. The session starts at 9.30am.

We look forward to meeting you tomorrow and hope you have a useful and enjoyable session.

ictGateshead are hosting a training session for new CEHI blog editors on Friday, January 22 from 9.30am.

Those attending will get a hands-on shot at publishing text and multimedia to this website and an understanding of blogs and other Web 2.0 techs. There may even be time for some podcasting.

Attendees are welcome to bring pre-prepared text or images on memory sticks. No technical expertise is required for this session.

Bring a sense of humour.

If you are interested in supporting health campaigns during 2010, please complete the Health Campaign Form, and return to the Public Health Improvement Information Team based at Clarendon.

No Smoking Day Briefing Session

We would like to invite you to a No Smoking Day Briefing Session . This year we are running two briefing sessions.

November is Mouth Cancer Action Month and South of Tyne and Wear Primary Care Trust (PCT) have organised a number of events across the area.

The Oral Health Promotion Team in conjunction with the Head and Neck Macmillan Nurses will be at various locations to provide information, advice and guidance to members of the public.

Mouth Cancer Action Month is organised by the British Dental Health Foundation to raise awareness of the causes, signs and symptoms of mouth cancer. The disease kills one person every five hours and early detection improves survival chances to more than 90 percent.

In the last decade the number of mouth cancer cases increased by 41 percent and over 1,800 people die of the disease every year.

The Department of Health and Du service design invite you to a Learning Event which will focus on Reducing Health Inequalities and the role that third sector organisations can play.The event at the Sage on 25th November will be the culmination of four months of activity on this site - on the online exhibition, the bulletin board and, for the studious, the knowledge repository, other wise known as the pre-event reading.

For Further Details go to: Hi3

Telephone: 0845 4501251

Please come along to our drop-in event on:

• You will have the chance to view the finalised plans for the building and contribute to the next stage of the project.


• Representatives from Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust will be there to give updates, listen to your views and answer any questions you may have.
  
• Staff from Sunderland City Council will also be available during the session to discuss leisure facilities.

All welcome

Download poster with details by using this link
Final Houghton Poster Oct 09.pdf.

We are holding a briefing session at the Quality Hotel, Boldon on Monday 28th September, 12 noon until 1.30 pm.
Please note lunch will be provided 12 noon until 12.30 pm, the briefing will begin after this.
This will be your opportunity to find out about the background to this year's campiagn, and how you can successfully promote awareness of this important health issue.
You must register for this event, please contact yvonne.hudson@sotw.nhs.uk or telephone 283 1122

The Falls Prevention Team are hosting a falls event day in line with National Falls Awareness. The event is being held in South Shields Market place. A similar event is being held in Sunderland on the same day.

For further details download this poster National Falls Awareness Day

Please come and meet the team and celebrate the opening of the new and improved SMART service at our launch in June.

SMART - (Substance Misuse Awareness Raising and Treatment) has moved to new premises and grown in size to improve service delivery to young people in Gateshead.

We are holding two informative and fun open days. You will have the chance to learn more about our service, meet the team, see how we work with young people and the resources we use, and be able to network with colleagues as you enjoy light refreshments and a drink from our SMART non - alcoholic cocktail bar!

GATESHEAD THUNDER WILL BE HERE TO OFFICIALLY OPEN PROCEEDINGS ON JUNE 11TH 10am.

Please let us know the day and session you would like to come to.

If you think appropriate please pass this invite onto other interested parties. Look forward to seeing you in June....

World Mental Health Day 2009

We would like to invite you to a briefing session being held on Wednesday 10th June at the Quality Hotel, Boldon starting at 12 noon until 1.30pm. Lunch will be provided. This session will be an opportunity for you to find out about the background to this year's campaign, and will enable you to liase with colleagues and other interested individuals/organisations in your area.

This year we have arranged to have the briefing session much earlier in the year, to enable you to start planning your activities and events now. We hope this will also assist you in getting any support you need, and will ensure a well coordinated approach in Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland. It will also be an opportunity for you to give your views and help shape this year's plan of activities etc.

Please note lunch will be provided 12 noon until 12.30 pm, the briefing session will begin after this.
If you would like to come along please contact the:-
Public Health Improvement Information Team on 283 1124 / 283 1125 / 283 1126
to book a place.
or email healthinfo@sotw.nhs.uk

You will already be acutely aware of alcohol's influence on health, crime and disorder and the economy. As a region we are sleep-walking into problems with alcohol and there is a serious price to pay, for all of us:

• The North East is home to 12 of the top 20 areas for binge drinking in England
• Alcohol misuse costs the region more than £1billion a year
• The North East has the second highest number of incapacity benefit claimants in England due to alcohol
• It has the highest number of teenage conceptions
• 46% of all crime is alcohol related
• We have some of the highest rates of alcohol-related hospital admissions in the country.

To do this successfully we need your help.

To give you a flavour of Balance's aims and to identify how we can work in partnership to start a regional debate on alcohol, we would like to invite you to join us at one of our exclusive preview events taking place in June 2009.

The 3rd Edition of 'Limits' is now available for download by following this link:

Limits Newsletter April 2009, PDF, 608KB

The Dental Health Foundation runs National Smile Month every year and this year's theme is: "Brush for Health".

The Oral Health Team is holding events over the next few weeks to promote National Smile Month 17th May - 16th June 2009. Promotional events have been organised at 4 locations at Gateshead College and City of Sunderland College where the Oral Health Team will be distributing toothbrushes, toothpaste, leaflets and lots of oral health related information.

• Monday 18th May - Shiney Row College, Sunderland
• Thursday 21st May - Stadium Campus, Gateshead College
• Monday 1st June - Baltic Campus, Gateshead College
• Tuesday 2nd June - Hylton College, Sunderland

Everyone needs to play their part to protect and prepare themselves and their families. There are simple steps that everyone can take to help prevent catching colds and flu based on good respiratory and hand hygiene.

"Flu viruses can live for hours on hard surfaces such as telephone buttons and hand sets. The best way to protect your health is to wash your hands regularly." "Catch it in a clean tissue, Bin it and Kill it by washing your hands as soon as you can. Catch it, Bin it, Kill it."

Households across the UK will soon be receiving a Swine Flu Information leaflet. This leaflet includes information about what swine flu is and how it could spread, what UK governments have done to prepare for a wider outbreak of flu, how you can protect yourself against flu and what to do if you have flu symptoms. To read the leaflet, please click on the link below.

Department of Health Swine Flu Leaflet 119KB, PDF

NHS Evidence has been launched today (as planned!)

Provided by NICE, it is now the portal for authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practices. It provides access to a range of information, including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents - and incorporates the former National Library for Health with all its resources and the Specialist Libraries collections.

For more information about the background to NHS Evidence, see About us.
For access to NLH resources, see the 'Conduct a Specialist Search' tab on the NHS Evidence home page.

More to follow on NLH when I've had a closer look .......

A diversity training day for multi-agency staff will be held on Thursday 28 May 2009 at the Athletics Training Hall / Sports Academy of Gateshead International Stadium between 10.00 am and 3.00 pm on Thursday 28 May 2009.

For details on how to register please download flyer for contact details and further information:

Diversity Day Flyer, 172KB, PDF

Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust would like to invite you to a drop-in session to view the progress to date on the new Houghton Primary Care Centre.

The public drop-in session will take place at Houghton Library, Newbottle Street, DH4 4AF on Friday 8 May 2009, 2pm - 7pm.

For further details please download either of the following:

Houghton Flyer (flyer).pdf:

Houghton poster (final).pdf

This year our Cancer Prevention Campaign will focus on lifestyle and cancer.
More than one in three people in the UK will develop cancer during their lifetime.
Making positive changes to lifestyle choices and attending screening tests can all help to reduce your risk of cancer.

How can you Reduce your Risk

Dont smoke
Keep a healthy body weight
Know the risks of alcohol
Be active
Eat healthily
Be SunSmart
Take part in screening such as breast screening, cervical screening and bowel screening
Practice safe sex

If you would like to raise awareness of lifestyle and cancer, please contact the Public Health Improvement Information Team for a free awareness pack on 283 1124/ 283 1125/ 283 1126 or email healthinfo@sotw.nhs.uk

for further information on lifestyle and cancer go to:-

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/

National Breastfeeding Awareness Week
11th - 17th May 2009

Please help us in promoting breastfeeding!
National Breastfeeding Awareness week is fast approaching and we want to encourage you to highlight that breastfeeding is the healthiest feeding option for babies and mothers.

There will be national materials available to help you put up a display, hold an event or plan an activity around the benefits of breastfeeding. We need more individuals to help us in raising awareness of this week.

If you have not signed up to receive free materials please get in contact with the Public Health Improvement Information Team on:-

283 1124 / 283 1125 /283 1126
or email healthinfo@sotw.nhs.uk

Thank you for your support

For further information on National Breastfeeding Awareness Week go to:-

www.breastfeeding.nhs.uk

Success in achieving current national targets for reducing health inequalities will be evaluated in 2010. 2010 is almost upon us and the Government has recently announced a major review of health inequalities.

Tobacco Control Action Plans have been developed for Gateshead PCT, South Tyneside PCT and Sunderland PCT. Each plan contains smoking rates, impact of smoking on life expectancy, tobacco planning and co-ordination, a local tobacco action plan.

Gateshead Tobacco Alliance Action Plan 2008-09. PDF, 74KB

South Tyneside Tobacco Action Plan 2008 - 2009 _Updated October 2008. PDF, 85KB

Sunderland Tobacco Action Plan Draft v4 Dec 08. PDF, 61KB

Hi from the South Tyneside Cehi Drop in session

What is CEHI?

The Centre for Enabling Health Improvement, or CEHI, is a network of people in Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland with an interest in improving health. Some work in the NHS, some work for Local Authorities, some work in the voluntary sector and some are members of the public who have an interest in health issues.

Want to find out more?

The February 2009 newsletter is now available on the NLH Public Health Specialist Library website
or you can download it here

Archived newsletters are now at:
http://www.library.nhs.uk/PUBLICHEALTH/ViewResource.aspx?resID=313467

There is a statutory duty under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act (2007) for local authorities and primary care trusts to undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). A JSNA will identify current and future health and well-being needs of a local population. It will inform the priorities and targets set within Local Area Agreements and lead to agreed commissioning priorities that will improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

Download details of stop smoking support for PCT staff.

Quit Support for Gateshead PCT Staff

Quit Support for South Tyneside PCT Staff

Quit Support for Sunderland PCT Staff

To contact the Stop Smoking Service please call:-

Gateshead and South Tyneside:- 08005316317

Sunderland:- 08005874865

Follow the link below to download the national health campaigns calendar for 2009

National Health Campaigns Calendar 2009

These reports presents a local perspective on health issues which have a strong national profile.

Annual Reports of the Directors of Public Health for South of Tyne and Wear 2007/08 (pdf 4.3MB)

Annual Report of the Director of Public Health for Gateshead 2007-08 (pdf 4.2MB)

Annual Report of the Director of Public Health for South Tyneside 2007-08 (pdf 1.4MB)

Annual Report of the Director of Public Health for Sunderland 2007-08 (pdf 2.8MB)

Health Improvement Monitor 2007-08 (pdf 3.5MB)

Please note that these are large files and may take some time to download, particularly if you are not using a broadband connection.

Significant new investment is being made in new and expanded alcohol treatment services by three local health primary care trusts.

NHS South of Tyne and Wear, which incorporates the primary care trusts serving Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland, has announced plans to invest £5.7m annually in additional services to help those with alcohol related health problems in its area.

Gateshead has had a Healthy Communities Collaborative (HCC) since 2001, working to reduce falls and promote access to a healthy and affordable diet. In June 2007, Gateshead was invited to take part as one of ten, first wave sites in England in the promotion of earlier presentation of the symptoms of breast, bowel and lung cancer. Their findings are now available in an interim report.

Download Interim Report: HCC Interim Report July 08. Word: 4,453KB

December 1st is World AIDS Day. Building on the huge success of last year's event marking the occasion in the North East, a number of organisations have come together to plan what we hope will be another exciting march and event to celebrate the day and challenge the stigma and discrimination suffered by the millions of people worldwide whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS.

The November 2008 newsletter is now available on the NLH Public Health Specialist Library website at:

http://www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/page.aspx?pagename=NEWSLETTER

The October 2008 newsletter is now available on the NLH Public Health Specialist Library website at:

http://www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/page.aspx?pagename=NEWSLETTER

The September 2008 newsletter is now available on the NLH Public Health Specialist Library website at:

http://www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/page.aspx?pagename=NEWSLETTER

The newsletter highlights new additions to the library, any special pieces of work and upcoming events.

This report intends to highlight Healthy Communities Collaborative community activity over the last twelve months.

The Sunderland HCC is targeting three wards across the City (St. Chads ward, St. Peters ward & the Hetton ward) encouraging earlier recognition and presentation of breast, bowel lung cancer in the identified local communities. These sites were chosen due to the combined high prevalence and mortality rates of bowel, breast & lung cancer in the areas. Three HCC teams of volunteers and health professionals are working at grassroots level in order to encourage local people to access their GP sooner with potential signs and symptoms of the three cancers in addition to advocating the importance of breast and bowel screening.

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

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

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

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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