TPHN Newsletter November 2009 - PHORCaST - Public Health ...

ISSUE 4
November 2009
Welcome to the fourth issue of the East Midlands Teaching
Public Health Network newsletter, we hope you find the
content both interesting and useful. Please forward on any
items you would like to see in the next newsletter to
Claire.Croal@nottingham.ac.uk
Contents
Date for your diary – The East Midlands Teaching Public
Health Network Stakeholder Conference
Regional fund to support innovations in the East Midlands
Hands on!
‘Get Healthy Nottingham’
Health Trainer Services in offender settings
PHORCaST
One East Midlands
The Boorman review: NHS Health and Wellbeing
East Midlands Speciality Team
Learning beyond registration
Visit of Robert Madelin, Director General of DG SANCO
(EU Directorate General for Health and Consumer Affairs)
to the East Midlands
Future events
East Midlands Teaching Public Health Network Support Team
Dr Isabel Perez, TPHN Co-ordinator
(isabel.perez@eastmidlands.nhs.uk)
Liz Robinson, TPHN Administrator
(liz.robinson@eastmidlands.nhs.uk)
Claire Croal, Public Health Administrator
(claire.croal@eastmidlands.nhs.uk)
East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery, King’s Meadow
Campus, Lenton Lane, Nottingham NG7 2NA
0115 846 8531
Date for your diary
The East Midlands Teaching Public Health Network (EMTPHN)
Stakeholder Conference
“Building the capacity and capability of the East
Midlands Public Health Workforce”
27th January 2010 at Trent Vineyard, Easter Park, Nottingham
The conference will provide a unique forum for public health and
educational professionals to come together to explore examples of
excellence and innovative ways of building public health capacity
and capability across the East Midlands.
The event will showcase examples of excellence, workshops,
PHORCaST and the Healthy Ageing Initiative.
To register your interest please contact Liz Robinson (EMTPHN
administrator) at liz.robinson@eastmidlands.nhs.uk or visit our
website www.emphasisnetwork.org.uk/tphn/events.htm
Regional fund to support innovations in
the East Midlands
NHS East Midlands has launched a dedicated Regional Innovation
Fund offering our local NHS organisations and their partners the
chance to apply for a share of £1.94 million to make great ideas a
reality.
By establishing this, new regional fund money will be invested in
projects that will result in more creative solutions: involving closer
partnership working across different organisations and disciplines,
speeding up the rate of implementation of evidence based practice
and ensuring that clinical service delivery is at the leading edge.
Trusts are encouraged to apply against a number of key allocations
that support the priorities of their NHS organisation, address areas
of clinical need or specific challenges suggested by frontline staff
that could be solved through innovative thinking.
Each strategic health authority in England is receiving £1.93 million
this year with a further £5 million in each of the next four years as
part of the government’s commitment to creating a more innovative
and high quality health service. They will work with innovation
experts to assess and develop the proposals submitted and ensure
that the ideas get off the ground and are adopted and spread across
the NHS. More information is available here:
www.tin.nhs.uk/east-midlands-regional-innovation-fund
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‘Get Healthy Nottingham’
HANDS ON!
As the met office issued a severe weather warning, the public
health team kitted out in wellingtons and cagoules drove in
convoy through St Ann’s allotments. Armed with our
gardening gloves and packed lunch we were ready for the
public health team away day 2009.
After a nice hot cuppa Robin our ecoworks leader issued us
with tools and we set to work happily digging up leeks and
planting them away ready for winter. Easy working on an
allotment we thought so much easier than the daily routine of
an office. How wrong we were!
After another nice hot cuppa and a piece of Maxine’s famous
chocolate brownies the hard work really began. We set to
work clearing an area of wasteland, building a bonfire and
digging trenches that I’m sure were secretly made of concrete.
Isabel on the other hand somehow managed to bag the job of
picking salad leaves!
Come 1.00 we were all ready for a well deserved break, after
some lunch and another piece of chocolate brownie the public
health team were raring to go again, working hard into the
late afternoon clearing weeds and turning soil. After a few
more hours of hard work exhausted and muddy we laid down
our tools and surveyed our work. Gone were the weeds and
hard soil, it was now a clear area of wasteland all set for
winter.
All in all a fantastic team day out, we made a contribution to
the local community and built on our team skills – what a way
to introduce our new apprentice Kory to the team!
Armed with our leeks, peppers and beetroot we set off home
already thinking of Public Health challenge 2010!
For more information about booking your team away day at
ecoworks please visit their website at www.ecoworks.org.uk
In partnership with the Improvement and Development Agency
(IDeA) Healthier Communities Workforce Development strand,
Nottingham is developing the ‘Get Healthy Nottingham’ project.
This project aims to increase understanding of health
improvement and behavioural change, particularly amongst
those who may be able to influence positive behaviour change in
others.
We intend to increase public health capacity in Nottingham
through training both workers and residents resulting in:
Increased awareness and understanding of local health
issues and healthy lifestyle choices
300 people achieving the Royal Society for Public
Health’s Level 1 ‘Health Awareness’ or Level 2
‘Understanding Health Improvement’ qualifications.
Increased health improvement capacity across Nottingham
should result in reductions in smoking, increased physical activity
and healthier diets. In addition, there will be a raised level of
awareness and signposting to services such as sexual health.
Workforce ‘Motivators’ will be better equipped to pass on
positive health messages and those whose work influences the
wider determinants of health will have a greater understanding
of local health inequalities and the importance and benefits of
promoting behaviour change.
For more information on the ‘Get Healthy Nottingham’ project
please contact Sharan Jones on
Sharan.Jones@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Health Trainer Services in offender
settings
Health Trainer Services are now being extended to offender
settings across the East Midlands, with Health Trainers
employed as part of broader Health & Well-Being Services in
both Nottingham City, South Notts and Lincolnshire. Leicester
City is also in the process of setting up a Health Trainer Service
and planning is also underway for probation-based services in
Derbyshire and Northamptonshire.
Health Champions are being rolled out to an increasing number
of prisons including HMP Stocken, HMP Morton Hall and
HMP/YOI Onley.
Tony Connell, the Health Support Service Manager for
Lincolnshire Probation Area, is developing a training package for
Health Trainers and Champions in probation settings which will
form part of their induction. He is also working with the East
Midlands Hub Manager, Elaine Varley, to see how this package
could be developed for wider use.
For further information on please contact Lisa Hoole
(Lisa.Hoole@nottinghamshire.probation.gsi.gov.uk).
For further information on the induction training package, please
contact Tony Connell
(Tony.Connell@lincolnshire.probation.gsi.gov.uk).
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One East Midlands has been working with the Department of
Health to develop a regional network of Voluntary and
Community Sector Organisations that work in health and social
care.
The Health Network working in consultation with the wider
sector to define its role and objectives. But its primary role will
be to promote engagement and learning with community groups
and provide a range of opportunities for a continuing dialogue
about health priorities and programmes for the East Midlands.
If you would like to be involved in helping shape a Health
Network for the East Midlands please contact Sophia Skyers
(sophia@skyers-morris.co.uk) or Janet Poorman
(janet@janetpoorman.co.uk). Telephone: 0208 311 4347
(office) or 07956 572983 (mobile).
The Boorman review: NHS Health
and Wellbeing
Health Professionals from across the East Midlands got together
at a regional event recently to offer their comments on an
interim report into a review of the health and wellbeing of NHS
staff in the region.
Staff shared local examples of good practice and looked at the
next steps for continued improvements to the health and
wellbeing of NHS employees.
Commissioned by the Department of Health, the interim report
is part of the independent review led by occupational health
expert Dr Steve Boorman, who is renowned for the
improvements he has made at Royal Mail.
The report reveals that more than 80 per cent of NHS staff
surveyed believed their health and wellbeing affected the quality
of patient care they provided, highlighting the importance of
investing in staff. It also offers recommendations for
improvements.
The event showcased projects which are enhancing health and
wellbeing services for NHS staff in the region.
Workshops were provided for participants to share the details of
findings and recommendations, allowing the opportunity to give
feedback to the review team and determine possible actions at a
local, regional and national level. The three areas that were
focused on were
Prevention – public health and staff health
NHS staff health and wellbeing
Prevention
For more information on the NHS Health and Wellbeing review
or to give your views about the Interim Report, visit
www.nhshealthandwellbeing.org
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East Midlands Speciality Team
The East Midlands Specialty team are once again co-ordinating
the national Public Health specialty training recruitment in
2010. Applications will open on 4 December and close on 18
December and we hope to long list candidates before
Christmas. As in previous years, all candidates meeting the
eligibility criteria will be invited to sit assessment tests in
January. Short listing will follow the results of these tests and
will take place between 27 January and 5 February. The final
stage selection centres will be in the week of 22 February. We
will shortly be asking for East Midlands representatives to
shortlist and sit on selection panels so please have diaries
ready!
The East Midlands team also attended the recent University of
Nottingham Medical School careers fair. This was a great
opportunity to talk to final year medical students and to gain
an insight into their thoughts on Public Health both in general
terms and as an option at Foundation Level and Specialty
Training. We have a lot of work to do with medical students
but their interest in Public Health was really encouraging.
Finally, the promotional materials that we produced earlier
this year to promote PH careers in the East Midlands will now
be used by the Faculty of Public Health at the BMJ careers
event in London in October.
Learning beyond registration
Learning Beyond Registration (LBR) is a vital part of developing
competent, capable practitioners appropriately prepared to
deliver a dynamic, flexible, quality, client-focused service. To
this end East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery
(EMHWD) aims to commission a suite of
modules/programmes from a range of universities that are:
Flexible and dynamic
Interprofessional and/or multi-professional
Modular
Accessible
Clear and understandable
Responsive
Fit for purpose
EMHWD contracts with eleven universities for the provision of
a wide range of professional healthcare education. Funding for
these courses/modules is free of charge to non-medical,
professional healthcare staff working in the NHS. For more
information please use the following link
www.eastmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk/lbr/
Visit of Robert Madelin, Director General of DG
SANCO (EU Directorate General for Health and
Consumer Affairs) to the East Midlands
Robert Madelin visited the East Midlands on 23 September 2009.
This visit was planned to support the launch of several
new initiatives – all of which show the East Midlands
taking a leading role in identifying innovative ways to
tackle health inequalities.
Robert Madelin is keen to show his support for the work
being done here, and to commit DGSANCO to supporting
this work, both in person, and financially through
potential EU funding options.
Mr Madelin spent approximately 6 hours in the region, during
which time there was:
The launch of the ‘The East Midlands’ Declaration –
Change4Life, and the East Midlands Platform - Food,
Physical Activity and Health
The introduction of Councillor David Parsons as Public
Health Ambassador for the east Midlands
The launch of the Social Determinants of Health network
A presentation on the Teaching Public Health Network
and it’s role on building capacity and capability of the
public health workforce across the region
Other presentations around the Healthy Weight/ Healthy
Lives programme.
There was interest from local and professional press, and the
launch event was covered by television crews from both the BBC
and independent regional news. Robert Madelin and David
Walker were interviewed and the event was covered on regional
news bulletins throughout the day.
Future Events
26th November 2009, Aim Higher Event, Public Health
Careers Event
27th January 2010, East Midlands Teaching Public Health
Network Stakeholder event
24th – 25th March, UKPHA Annual Public Health
conference, Bournemouth
15th – 17th, The Faculty of Public Health Annual
Conference, Telford
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