Population Health Academy Newsletter
Prevention and Inequalities Regional Updates
New South East Prevention and Inequalities Mailbox
There is a new team mailbox: southeast.preventionandinequalities@nhs.net
This replaces the previous standalone prevention mailbox. So if you’re not sure who to contact, please do use this. You may also start seeing calendar invites coming from here.
Improving ethnicity recording together: multi regional call for collaborative action
The North West Joint Intelligence Network is working with partners across the country, including the ADPH London, to arrange a workshop to foster collaboration and drive forward improvements in ethnicity recording in health and public sector services. All colleagues working to improve ethnicity recording, and address health inequalities, are invited to join us for " Improving ethnicity recording together: multi regional call for collaborative action." The collaborative workshop will be held 13:30-15:00 Thursday 16th January 2025 via zoom. The event will include a discussion on establishing a multiregional working group. Please share with your networks and anyone who may be interested in participating.
Announcing NHS England South East Region's EDI Skill Development Sessions
a learning and development package by NHS England South East Region. These sessions are open to all staff working in the NHS healthcare setting in the South East region. This includes but is not limited to NHS Trusts, Primary Care and ICBs. These sessions will increase your confidence in identifying non-inclusive practice. They will help foster good relations between NHS staff. They will help you create inclusive, compassionate workplace cultures and improve retention.
LGBT+: Definitions, minorities, minorities within minorities
We will explore the different terms we use in the LGBT+ space. We will learn about less visible groups within the LGBT+ communities. We will learn about research evidence on the experiences of LGBT+ people. We will finish by discussing current affairs and how they're impacting LGBT+ communities. There will also be a quiz to test your learning!
Inclusive communication (Disability and Language)
An introduction to the medical and social models of disability. We will reflect on the words we use to talk about disability. We'll explore how we can use more empowering language when talking about disability and disabled people. By watching engaging videos created by disabled people, we'll rethink our own biases and challenge stereotypes.
Digital accessibility
How to create accessible communications for disabled or neurodivergent people. How to write accessible emails, documents and messages when using Outlook, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Teams. These tools can also support the health and wellbeing of all colleagues who spend long hours in front of a computer.
Microaggressions and allyship
What do we mean by microaggressions? How do they show up in the workplace? Allyship, privilege and what allyship means to different people. This session includes guest speakers who work in the NHS who will share their lived experiences of microaggressions. How can we move from being a bystander to an ally? How do we increase our confidence in speaking up when we witness microaggressions? This session covers race, religion, sex and other marginalised communities too.
Red Tape Challenge – improving the interface between primary and secondary care
Sent on behalf of GP Implementation Team.
The ‘Red Tape Challenge’, which is jointly led by Claire Fuller and Stella Vig, Medical Directors for Primary Care and Secondary Care at NHS England respectively, builds on and accelerates existing activity to improve the interface between primary and secondary care, such as how referrals are made and managed, patient discharge and how different parts of the health service communicate with each other.
Over the next few weeks NHS England will be talking to a range of stakeholders, from mental health, to community, primary care and hospital teams, to hear what’s working well, what’s working less well and what tangible actions could help improve things.
- Colleagues can share their feedback and send examples of good practice to: england.redtapechallenge2024@nhs.net
- Please complete this short survey and share with others in your network
- Please spread the word on the Red Tape Challenge via your networks and share info on how people can feed into it (mailbox and survey)
- If you would like to discuss anything specific with the team please contact us at england.redtapechallenge2024@nhs.net
Feedback will be used to implement immediate, operational improvements – with information around longer-term, transformational change fed into wider engagement as part of the 10 Year Health Plan.
Vulnerable migrant families, children, and UASC: improving our health and cultural understanding to strengthen practice
This is the first South East regional shared learning event of its kind specifically for our 0-19 healthcare workforce. The event will be delivered in partnership with NHS England, International Organisation for Migration and the South East Councils Strategic Partnership for Migration. This in-person training will provide opportunity for you to embed and strengthen existing knowledge and understanding of both the health needs and cultural context for vulnerable migrant families and unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC).
Who is this event for?
This event is specifically for health visitors, school nurses, nurse practitioners and specialist midwives working in the South East region. Spaces are limited and we will operate a waiting list if we reach capacity. Please feel free to forward this email to relevant and interested colleagues within your own organisation.
What to expect on the day
- To be in the room with subject experts, exploring together practice for health visiting, school nursing and maternity through the lens of these vulnerable families and children.
- Time with health visitors, school nurses and specialist midwives from across the region to share practice, reflect on your own experiences and challenges, and to learn together and from each other.
- Deepened understanding of social norms and cultural context for vulnerable migrant families and children.
- Time to explore the legal frameworks and safeguarding systems that apply in your work.
Date: Thursday 6th February
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NQ
Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2024: Health in Cities
Professor Whitty’s report ‘Health in Cities’ (published 12th December), outlines a broad range of health opportunities and challenges for city populations, and includes case studies from core cities in England.
Analysis of inequalities in health outcomes within English cities and other built-up areas to support the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report has also been published.
National Planning Policy Framework
The revised National Planning Policy Framework was published on 12th December 2024.
This includes stronger and clearer powers for local authorities to block new fast food outlets near schools (paragraph 97), alongside a strengthened public health narrative (paragraph 96(c)).
It goes further than the ambition set out in the Child Health Action Plan in that
- it does not just focus on schools, but adds reference to other places where children and young people congregate,
- it addresses the impacts of a high concentration of hot food takeaways, and
- it introduces a specific reference to health inequalities
South East Diet Obesity and Physical Activity Workshop 15th January 2025
Following the recent discussions at the South East Prevention and Health Inequalities Board, and the insights shared through our South East ADPH Healthy Weight and Physical Activity Network Group and its subgroups, we are pleased to invite you to a regional workshop to bring together leaders across the system to further our collective efforts in promoting healthy weight and improving diet and physical activity in our region.
Workshop Details
Date and time: 15th January 2025, 10am-4pm, Online
Aim: To foster collaboration between obesity and physical activity system leaders across the South East to align and amplify our efforts to progress the agendas on diet, healthy weight and physical activity.
Objectives:
- To update on the latest national and regional evidence, data and guidance in the areas of diet, obesity and physical activity
- To gain a detailed account of current system activity in these areas of work
- To identify shared opportunities for progressing the agendas on healthy weight, diet, and physical activity across different organisation.
- To develop coordinated actions to support population health improvement through system-wide approaches within ICBs and as a region.
Your expertise and leadership in this area are vital to ensuring the success of this initiative. This workshop will be an opportunity to exchange ideas, explore synergies, and co-create solutions that will benefit our communities and reduce health inequalities.
Register by 10th January 2025.
Message from ONS re. Build a Custom Area Profile tool
We are currently in the process of re-designing Build a Custom Area Profile to allow users to select non-Census granular datasets alongside Census 2021 data in the interactive tool. In the second half of January we will be carrying out user research on the re-designed tool to gather feedback and validate the changes we intend to make to the live tool by the end of March 2025. We are looking to identify users who are willing to take part in user research in January. In particular, we are looking for both existing users of the interactive tool (stakeholders who have already used Build a Custom Area Profile in the past) and potential users (stakeholders who are not familiar with the tool but might have an interest in using an interactive tool which allows users to draw a customer defined areas and get data for this user-defined area). If you are interested in taking part, please send me the names and email addresses of those who would like to get involved to: natalie.shorten@ons.gov.uk / ONS.Local@ons.gov.uk
Latest Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP): Impact and Learning Report
Contains case studies on cancer, CVD and respiratory.
Healthy Homes in the East of England webinar January 22nd from 12-1:30pm
The webinar is to celebrate the Healthy Homes in the East of England report, launched 3rd December. This report, produced by EELGA, IMPOWER Consulting and Public Health East of England, is a self-improvement tool for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to help enhance collaboration between housing and health sectors to improve health outcomes.
At this webinar, we will share the key findings from our Healthy Homes in the East of England report published in December.
This joint report from the East of England LGA, IMPOWER consultancy and Public Health East of England sets out Key Guiding Principles and a Call to Action to support our Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in the region achieve a system wide approach to health and housing.
Inspired by the opportunities that ICSs bring for greater integration, this recent report draws on the strength of partnerships already joining up efforts on housing and health at a local and regional level to reduce health inequalities particularly in areas of deprivation across the East of England.
Alcohol deaths
Deaths from alcohol have continued to rise.
Tobacco and Alcohol Dependence PLD Collections Bulletin
The national team have released their new PLD bulletin.
In this Edition of the Bulletin...
- Tobacco Dependence: Resubmission windows open in January
- Alcohol and Tobacco NEW Submission Templates:
- What is happening and why.
- What actions you need to take.
- Tobacco Dependence 2025 webinar series
- Tobacco Dashboard Reporting Conventions (Activity Dates and Reporting Periods)
- The impact of Data Suppression and Aggregation Methods on Dashboard and Data
- Pack figures
- The methodology used to calculate the expected number of people who smoke
- Tobacco Dependence Dashboard and Data Packs: User Research
- Tobacco Dependence resources:
- Updated data guidance and specification
- Updated inpatient admissions methodology
- New Dashboard tab to check submitted data
- Re-organised Tobacco Dependence FutureNHS pages
- Further resources and how to get in touch can be found at the end of the bulletin
Please do share onwards.
Tobacco data/dashboard webinars
Webinar 1: Thurs 23rd January at 2.30 to 3.30. Tobacco Dashboard Reporting Conventions: the difference between activity date and reporting date figure and reporting time lags
Webinar 2: Weds 26th February at 1.30 to 2.30. The impact of Data Suppression and Aggregation Methods on Dashboard and Data Pack figures
Webinar 3: Weds 26th March at 1.30 to 2.30. The methodology used to calculate the expected number of people who smoke
The 1-page explainer for webinar 1 (Reporting conventions) is now available here.
Further documents will be shared in the same folder.
NCSCT briefing
This NCSCT briefing, Transfer of Care: a solution for everyone makes a distinction between spontaneous quitters and Transfer of Care clients from NHS Tobacco Dependency Service, prisons and treatment centres to Local Stop Smoking Services. It facilitates seamless, ongoing support for people quitting smoking and ensures that support and treatment can be recorded and reported. Use the NCSCT ‘sign me up’ link to join the NCSCT distribution list.
Guidance: Asylum mental health and wellbeing: workstreams, tools and case studies
The Workstreams, tools and case studies by the Home Office Asylum Mental Health and Wellbeing (MHW) team booklet is now available.
The Faculty of Public Health has launched a new suite of resources
This learning resource is for anyone working in health, social care and well-being wherever they work or study. The resource allows you to access a broad range of learning materials for personal use or for teaching purposes in order to help everyone expand their public health knowledge.
Recruitment: Research Fellow in Public Health, University of Southampton
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Public Health Intelligence team job opportunity.
New national health inequalities bulletin
Summary health inequalities workplan for NHSE SE
Engagement with the development of the 10 year plan
A reminder about 10 year plan development engagement. Please do share with your networks and anyone can submit their thoughts.
Digital Weight Management Programme (DWMP) – Lunch and Learn
The NHSE South East Public Health team is putting on a session for colleagues in general practice. Please do share with you colleagues in general practice within the South East region.
The NHS Digital Weight Management Programme (DWMP) is a 12 week programme aimed at patients with a BMI 30+ who have a diagnosis of diabetes, hypertension or both. It is an online platform providing a combination of GP provided advice and community intervention.
Join us for a Lunch and Learn Session where we will discuss DWMP across the South East and what can be done to increase referrals into this evidence-based effective programme to reduce harms associated with obesity.
This will be an opportunity to hear and share learning and ask questions to speakers and each other.
Date: 28th November 2024
Time: 12:30 – 13:30
If you have any questions please contact: ben.crawford1@nhs.net
Tobacco Data Pack
The data pack for the Tobacco Dependency Services in the South East has been released.
Tobacco Peak Quality Mark Scheme
The pilot of the Tobacco Peak Quality Mark Scheme is underway, with providers encouraged to sign up. This is going to be really helpful on an ongoing basis for ensuring services are evidencing their good work and improving on quality as we move from initial implementation to sustainable delivery.
Call for evidence on standardising packaging for all tobacco products
The recent government response to the consultation on mandating quit information messages inside tobacco packs announced its intention to introduce pack inserts to cigarette and hand rolled tobacco packaging. The Government will also look to extend pack inserts to cover all tobacco products, tobacco-related devices, cigarette papers and herbal smoking products. To do this, they will first consider introducing more stringent packaging requirements for the different product types. To inform this work there is a call for evidence on standardising packaging for all tobacco products. The deadline to respond to this call for evidence is 23:59 on 28 January 2025.
Reminder about Public Health Intelligence Online - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform
National Varenicline PGD update
“I am delighted to announce that we have published our national PGD template for varenicline: Varenicline for smoking cessation – SPS - Specialist Pharmacy Service – The first stop for professional medicines advice
A big thank you to you all for your time and contributions to this piece-without which, none of this would have been possible.
We will shortly communicate publication of the national varenicline PGD template on our X and LinkedIn profiles and would be grateful if you could communicate news of the PGD publication within your networks also.”
‘Act now’ campaign to improve patient experience and outcomes for those experiencing Sickle Cell crisis.
Please see below the campaign to ‘Act now’ for improving patient experience and clinical outcomes for adults and children experiencing Sickle Cell crisis. There is training and education material available in the link below.
ACT NOW aims to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes for adults and children experiencing a sickle cell crisis by supporting rapid clinical response in areas identified as crucial to patients. For further information access the ACT NOW training and education materials.
This work is also referenced in the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s sickle cell guidance.
Why is this work important?
NHS Race and Health Observatory (NHSRHO) highlight:
“Sickle cell disease predominantly affects people with African or Caribbean heritage. A report by the Sickle Cell Society and All-Party Parliamentary Group highlighted inequalities in healthcare experience and variability in treatment for people living with sickle cell. This report also exposed a worrying shortfall in adequate care and treatment for sickle cell patients. Health inequalities result in part from structural biases in the healthcare system. Comparative research can play a valuable role in evidencing these biases and their consequences as a basis for evidence-based policy recommendations”. (NHSRHO, 2024, Sickle Cell Comparative Research to Inform Policy - NHS – Race and Health Observatory).
The national Healthcare Inequalities Improvement team have a new newsletter. If you’re a member of their Future NHS workspace, you should be automatically added to the d-list.
As you may be aware, we came to the end of 6-month toolbox training programme in September. Similar sessions to the ones we have held previously will be offered nationally from later this month (staring with GBD Compare) and so we will no longer be delivering regional tools training in the same way. We are thinking of carrying on with PHI tools practice sessions, but would like to get a sense of demand before we start these up. If you are interested in attending such sessions, please could you complete the short survey to indicate which tools you’d be interested in. The deadline for responses is Friday 15 November, so, if you’re interested, please complete by then.
Please note that these proposed sessions will not include demonstrations of how the tools work, you will need to be already familiar with the tools.
Community champion schemes form part of a range of community centred approaches that can be used to build healthier communities and address health inequalities. Usually, “Community Champions” are members of the community who work with their peers and a range of organisations to share information and promote health and wellbeing.
This is the second webinar in our Healthy Communities series. It is supported by the OHID Healthy Communities network, in partnership with the Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team- PHIRST. This webinar will:
- Share the findings and learning from two PHIRST Community Champions Evaluations
- Recognise the value in investing in community centred approaches and ensuring learning from Covid-19 is not lost.
- Focus on the theme of evaluation.
- Continue to build evidence base and share impact of use of community champion approaches.
We will present two short case studies focused on the two different but complementary evaluation approaches. Those involved will share their insights and learning. This will be followed by discussion and Q&A session related to challenges of, and opportunities for, undertaking evaluations/demonstrating impact within this context.
Find out more here.
ACTION National ACT (Alcohol Care Team) Collaboration Day
Date: Tuesday 19th November 9:30-16:00
Venue: The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB
This year's Collaboration Day features a wide variety of keynote speakers and 'bitesize' presentations from specialists across the network and experts in the alcohol field. Draft programme for the National ACT Collaboration Day has now been published and can be viewed here.
The future of public health and population health leadership
Date: Friday, 15 November 2024, 10.45-12.00
Venue: Online event held on Zoom Webinar – accessible via PC, laptop and smartphone
In this webinar we will explore:
- learning from The King’s Fund recent report Public health and population health: Leading together supported by the Health Foundation
- how the distinctions between definitions of public and population health are presenting leadership challenges
- how roles have evolved over the past 5 years, particularly in light of the pandemic and integrated care systems, and what that means for the future
- what a framework of good practice and collaboration could look like for the future of public and population health leadership.
A message from Professor Bola Owolabi, Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England
Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to start by thanking you for your energy, commitment and hard work in reducing health inequalities amongst our people and communities.
As a critical partner for healthcare inequality improvement, you are already helping us deliver the change we want to see, using our CORE20PLUS5 approach and focusing on our five strategic priorities. We know further change is needed. But we also know that many of the solutions we need are already here, working somewhere in the NHS today. We want to do more to spread the best work so that this becomes the norm.
We need your help to do this. Whether you have a little to say or a lot, your views, experiences and ideas will shape immediate steps and long-term changes: a new 10-Year Health Plan for the NHS.
This work must represent everyone who uses and works in the NHS. We want as many different voices to be heard, especially the seldom heard so that we can understand specific issues relating to different communities.
This is a once in a generation opportunity to set the NHS on a path for the future. Together we can fix it. We need your voice. Go to change.nhs.uk to find out how you can take part.
Please also find here our communications toolkit including resources to help us spread the word with your networks.
Prof Bola Owolabi
Director – National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement, NHS England
Developing health services to meet the needs of people in inclusion health groups
Date: 5th November, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Venue: Online
Update on Cytisine and Varenicline
There are some exciting developments on stop smoking pharmacotherapy to share with you. The evidence shows that smokers are over 5 times more likely to quit successfully if they use a combination of Varenicline and NRT so getting the right help to smokers, especially highly dependent smokers, makes a huge difference.
- Cytisine Updated NICE Guidance is due for publication 4th February 2025. Consultation on draft guidance should start from 15th November and run to 29th November 2024.
- Varenicline We understand that TEVA, one of the two authorised providers of generic Varenicline anticipates that they will have their new initiation packs available in the next few weeks.
- Local blockages We are aware that in some localities Varenicline has come off the formulary while supply was suspended. Reinstating this cost-effective treatment would be timely. Many areas are renewing Patient Group Directions (PGD). NHS England Specialist Pharmacy Service are preparing a template varenicline PGD which is going through internal governance processes and is expected w/c 24th October. The cytisine PGD will be published following NICE Guidance. SPS Update.
- Medical management of inpatients with tobacco dependency The British Thoracic Society has updated their Clinical Statement to take into account the launch of cytisine and the return of varenicline including advice to “Initiate combination nicotine replacement therapy as soon as possible”. Medical management of inpatients with tobacco dependency | Thorax
- “Over 5 times more likely to quit” Research showing varenicline/nicotine combination therapy to be more than 5 times more effective than placebo was published in 2022 but not widely used while varenicline was unavailable. This figure is likely to be used increasingly over the coming months. Comparative clinical effectiveness and safety of tobacco cessation pharmacotherapies and electronic cigarettes: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials
Ask to system leads - Structure charts
As mentioned in the last prevention/ health inequalities leads meeting, please can system leads send over their updated organogram/ structure charts as we are aware there has been multiple changes in the region.
Please could these be sent to: se.publichealthbst@nhs.net
Ask to Core20PLUS5 Connectors Sites
If you have a Connector role description, job advert or activity list, please share it by sending it to scwcsu.healthimpandineq@nhs.net. When you send them, please let them know if they can be uploaded onto our FutureNHS site.
Outcome: Connector role descriptions, job adverts, and activity lists will be shared amongst all programmes via FutureNHS, allowing us to learn and observe best practices.
Tackling health inequalities: seven priorities for the NHS
Report by the Kings Fund on the priorities for the NHS
HSJ Partnership Awards - Extending the deadline
You now have until Friday 18 October to submit your entries for the HSJ Partnership Awards.
Teams and organisations from across the UK have started their submissions to show all the great collaboration between the NHS and its partners. Start your entries today to recognise and reward all your efforts, and get the chance to drive best practice at a national level.
Adult smoking habits in the UK: 2023
Cigarette smoking habits among adults in the UK, including how many people smoke, differences between population groups, changes over time and use of e-cigarettes. The ONS has released the 2023 statistics.
ACTION National ACT (Alcohol Care Team) Collaboration Day
Date: Tuesday 19th November 9:30-16:00
Venue: The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB
This year's Collaboration Day features a wide variety of keynote speakers and 'bitesize' presentations from specialists across the network and experts in the alcohol field. Draft programme for the National ACT Collaboration Day has now been published and can be viewed here.
The future of public health and population health leadership
Date: Friday, 15 November 2024, 10.45-12.00
Venue: Online event held on Zoom Webinar – accessible via PC, laptop and smartphone
In this webinar we will explore:
- learning from The King’s Fund recent report Public health and population health: Leading together supported by the Health Foundation
- how the distinctions between definitions of public and population health are presenting leadership challenges
- how roles have evolved over the past 5 years, particularly in light of the pandemic and integrated care systems, and what that means for the future
- what a framework of good practice and collaboration could look like for the future of public and population health leadership.
Smoking Book Launch Invitation
Date: Thursday 17th October, 3pm - 4.30pm
Venue: The Foundry 17 Oval Way London SE11 5RR
Book launch for Joe and Julie Stop Smoking
It aims to encourage a conversation around tobacco for those who not only have a learning disability but those with lower levels of health literacy. The event is free and will include a copy of the book!
Developing health services to meet the needs of people in inclusion health groups
Date: 5th November, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Venue: Online
Business Case Template for ACTs
A draft business case template has been uploaded on to FutureNHS. This is designed to provide guidance and share key information for adaptation into local sustainability business cases.
Tobacco and Alcohol Dependence Patient Level Data Collections bulletin - September 2024
The Prevention and Long Term Conditions Programme team have created this bulletin to provide information about patient level data from the collections to the submission stage, as well as information on the dashboards to visualise the data.
South East Tobacco Community of Practice
Date: 9 October, 11:00 – 12:30
Venue: MS Teams
Contact: courtney.bowman@nhs.net
NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN) - sustainability webinar
Date: 30 September, 12:00 – 13:00
Venue: Online
Join this national NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN) webinar focusing on the sustainability of innovations in healthcare, identifying factors that impact real-world implementation and exploring current frameworks.
Registration is now open for the Health Equity Network Second Annual National Conference!
Date: 8 October
Venue: The Eastside Rooms Birmingham, B7 4BL.
The Child Health Equity Framework for the Drivers of Health Inequalities
The Child Health Equity Framework sets out the social determinants of health for children and young people. Its main purpose is to underpin action for achieving greater health equity.
Five essential resources on addressing the risk factors for ill health
The Health Foundation have collated some essential resources that take a closer look at what is known about the big risk factors for health – including what policy action has been taken in the past, what bold action is needed now and how much public support there is.
Join The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health
Around one in eight children aged between two and 10 in England are obese, an NHS survey found.
Review of NHS Trust Strategies for Tackling Health Inequalities
As part of the health inequalities support offer for trusts, a review of NHS trust strategies for tackling health inequalities has been published. This review offers key insights into the organisational benefits of having a dedicated health inequalities strategy, the elements of a well-developed strategy, the barriers which are preventing trusts from making progress in taking strategic action, and a case study of a developed and successful strategy to target health inequalities.
The review makes reference to the key priorities shared by trusts in developing strategic action on health inequalities, including leveraging strong data, building system-wide partnerships, promoting cultural shifts and engaging with staff and patients.
Intercultural toolkit for those working with asylum seekers & migrants
Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre, Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex have published a new intercultural awareness toolkit to support those working with asylum seekers and migrants.
Translation and Interpretation Services Survey
NHS England are leading a piece of work to understand what is working well and what isn’t working well in translation and interpretation services across different healthcare organisations. If you have experience of working in this area, your insights would be valuable to inform the outputs of this project.
Please share your views in an online survey, which shouldn’t take longer than 20 minutes to complete.
NIHR case study: Creating a shared data system to improve the quality of life for care home residents
ARC East of England supported the £2.4 million ‘Developing research resources and minimum data set for Care Homes’ Adoption’ (DACHA) study. DACHA established a minimum shared data set in social care organisations which helped improve the quality of care offered and the commission of new services.
New report reveals regional inequalities in Long Covid rates
Navigating the Long Haul: Understanding Long Covid in Northern England, has been published by Health Equity North (HEN), with lead contributions from ARC North East and North Cumbria and ARC Greater Manchester.
New research to address school food inequalities for children with special educational needs and disabilities
A new project has been launched by researchers at ARC East of England to urgently address the public health need to tackle inequalities in access to nutritious meals for children with special educational needs or disabilities who attend special schools.
How can we support hospital staff to engage in alcohol harm prevention?
When people die from alcohol-related conditions such as liver disease, there have often been missed chances during other hospital visits to prevent or stop their alcohol use from getting worse. A new study led by researchers from the ARC North East and North Cumbria has looked at why these opportunities might be missed, and what could be done to address this.
NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN) - sustainability webinar
Date: 30 September, 12:00 – 13:00
Venue: Online
Join this national NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN) webinar focusing on the sustainability of innovations in healthcare, identifying factors that impact real-world implementation and exploring current frameworks.
ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex Research Week
Date: 9-12 September, 10:00 – 16:00
Venue: Online and in person in Guilford
The week will include a range of learning and development events, research insight talks and presentations specifically aimed at applied health and social care researchers, including early career researchers in practice and PhD students.
Stoptober Campaign Resources
Stoptober campaign resources are now available to download from the Campaign Resource Centre. These can be used throughout September and October to help raise awareness of the campaign and encourage smokers to plan their quit attempt. They include:
- Campaign toolkit containing key messages, stats and facts, overview of assets, suggested social media posts and ideas for evaluation
- Digital posters
- Social media assets (static and animated)
- Graphics for digital screens
- Email signatures
Developing a community Wealth Building Strategy
Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2024 13:00 -14:00
Venue: Online event held on Zoom – accessible via PC, laptop and smartphone
Anchor organisations play a vital role in bringing Community Wealth Building strategies to life. Join us to explore lessons on what works from leaders in health and local government, reflect on your own approach and learn with others. This interactive and informative webinar is free to join and open to all.
Beginner’s Guide to the South East Health Protection Team
Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024, 10.00 – 12.15
Venue: Online event held on Teams – accessible via PC, laptop and smartphone
What can local government in England do to tackle the leading risk factors for ill health?
Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024, 11.00 – 12.15
Venue: Online event held on Zoom Webinar – accessible via PC, laptop and smartphone
Tackling health inequalities: Arch Healthcare’s approach in Brighton
Congratulations to Sussex colleagues on this impressive blog about Arch Healthcare in Brighton.
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A health fair for people with learning disabilities, their carers and families.
There will be eight ‘Keeping you well’ events for people with learning disabilities across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Each locality will have it’s own preference spin on the event, but with a similar health-care related brief to include as a minimum.
The purpose of these events is to help empower our local communities with a learning disability to keep themselves well and to increase awareness around some of the health carer services available to them.
People with a learning Disability have an average life expectancy of around 20% less than a person without a learning disability. Alongside our drive to reduce health inequalities through service provision and promoting the uptake of Annual Health Checks, we want to support people to understand how to keep themselves well, identify when something is not right and know where to go when needed. We have invited a number of healthcare providers to come and host stalls at the events to provide such information. We have tried to invite key health groups in line with the top themes that come up on LeDeR reports as common reasons for sickness and premature death. Not every specialty has had availability to attend every event, but we have generally had some pretty strong engagement throughout.
The main focus of the day will be:
- Annual Health Checks
- Reasonable Adjustments
- Health screening
- Health promotion
- Lifestyle and exercise
The first two of the events are due to take place on Thursday 7th November 2024:
- 09:30 – 12:30 – Landport Community Centre – Portsmouth (Poster Attached)
- 15:00 – 19:30 – Riverside Centre – Newport, Isle of Wight (Poster Attached)
Example stalls being hosted at the Portsmouth event:
Reasonable Adjustments and Annual Health Checks / LD Health clinics / LD Hospital Liaison Team / Radiography / Positive Behaviour Support and (unmet health needs underlying cause for behaviours of concern / Physiotherapy - ‘Benefit of supporting and improving body posture to enhance overall health’ / Specialist Dentistry / Exercise, Boxing and Running Group / LD Occupational Therapy- engagement / Speech and Language therapy- Eating, Drinking, Swallowing safety and Nutrition / South Central Ambulance Service / Cancer screening- Wessex Cancer Alliance / Bowel screening / Pharmacy – medication review, STOMP / Sexual Health / Dietician
On the horizon:
The remaining 6 events are due to take place in Southampton, Havant, Fareham, Basingstoke and Totton. We are currently assigning which location will take place on which date, but the provisionally agreed dates for these events to take place are:
- Tuesday 3rd December (AM)
- Thursday 16th January (AM)
- Thursday 23rd January (AM)
- Thursday 13th February (AM)
- Thursday 6th March (AM)
It is hoped that if these events are successful and the public feedback that they have found them useful, that we will request to run more of these in 2025-26.
A celebration event took place to reflect on the first phase of ‘Trans Aware Cancer Care’: a research project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, committed to seeking better access to cancer care for the trans+ community.
People from across the trans+ community, NHS, third sector organisations, academic establishments and more came together at MAST Studios Southampton to reflect on the findings of the project and the unique research methods undertaken.
Over the last year, four trans+ community researchers have been supported to engage with the trans+ community and its allies, using art-based methods to capture healthcare experiences and reflections. The team have attended a huge calendar of Pride events, as well as creating an online chat and scheduling workshops to reach the community.
At the event, the team shared a large flag built up of squares created by those attending the engagement activity. The squares tell personal stories, experiences and reflections of healthcare from trans+ individuals and allies, which will help to inform trans aware cancer care. People in the room were invited to add their own reflections, as well as their pledges and commitments for service transformation and improvement.
Zak, Community Researcher said: “Given that the trans+ community are often excluded from decisions about us, it is good to see research that involves us from the ground up.”
Katie, Community Researcher said: “We had our Trans Aware Cancer Care celebration event today and it was amazing. Allyship is a choice and a promise we make every day. Not just at work. Not when we wear our rainbow lanyards. Every. Day. Allyship is a verb- let’s do it”.
Trans Aware Cancer Care is a partnership of the following organisations: Help & Care- Involving People, local trans+ charity Beyond Reflections, Bournemouth University, Wessex Cancer Alliance, Macmillan Cancer Support, Wessex Cancer Support, and University Hospital Southampton. Each partner brings their own expertise to the project and a shared vision of equal access to cancer care for all.
Throughout the first phase of the project, a strong focus has been on building partnerships, coproduction and making a transformative journey together. Workshops have taken place with NHS professionals, and today both healthcare professionals and the trans+ community come together in a show of commitment for long term change.
Early findings from the project highlight both positive and negative experiences within the community. While it is clear that long term transformation is needed, the project has highlighted some steps that can be taken today to make the cancer care pathway more accessible for trans+ people.
Sue Newell, Wessex Cancer Alliance Involvement & Inclusion Lead shared, "Today's been amazing, the pause to reflect on the incredible artwork in conjunction with powerful stories of Trans+ people's experiences of health/ cancer care. Looking forward to building on the relationships to cocreate solutions together."
Alison and Kishor from Action Hampshire said “Today has been a great celebratory event. We will be aiming to incorporate the lived experiences we heard from the community researchers in things like the Communities against Cancer workshops we provide.”
The event closed with a nod to the future and the desired continuation of this vital, collaborative project. If you’d like to find out more or be part of the next steps, visit the Trans Aware Cancer Care section of this website. Community Research Trans+ Project: Trans Aware Cancer Care — Involving People. You can also join our mailing list to be kept up to date, go to Community research — Involving People and scroll to the form at the bottom of the page.
LGBT Foundation have recently released their 2024 pride in practice patient survey. This survey aims to capture data on patient experiences in primary care, be that at GP practices, dental practices, pharmacies or optometry services.
The responses to this survey will be used to support the LGBT Foundation in improving awareness of the experiences LGBTQ+ patients have when using primary care services.
Any data shared by the LGBT Foundation for these purposes will be anonymised.
Complete the survey here.
Cancer Matters Wessex are supporting Wessex Cancer Alliance with their awareness campaign, ‘Know the Signs’. The aim of this campaign is to improve people’s awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer.
1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, so it is really important to know what signs to look out for and when to seek advice from your GP Practice. Visit their dedicated website, for more information and support here.
In 2023, a joint bid was submitted to National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to deliver a project using a Community Research model. This project focuses on trans+ people who experience inequity and inaccessibility in cancer services. The project is being led by Help & Care alongside partners Macmillan Cancer Support, Beyond Reflections, Bournemouth University, Southampton University Hospital, Wessex Cancer Trust and Wessex Cancer Alliance.
Through the project, we will also be engaging with a wide group of cancer service professionals to develop a shared understanding of how cancer inequalities manifest for trans+ people. Our aim is to raise the level of ambition around eradicating cancer inequalities and develop a commitment to act on the solutions our research creates.
To lead the work, we have recruited, with the support of Beyond Reflections, 4 trans+ community researchers, who will be mentored by Bournemouth University and supported in their cancer understanding through a clinical nurse specialist. The community researchers will be leading discussions and arts-based workshops with trans+ people who have cancer service experiences and will support them through the process of generating solutions that would address challenges that they faced.
The community researchers will then refine the solutions with service providers and commissioners in the NHS and voluntary sector to create actionable goals for change within cancer care and support services.
If you are a Trans+ adult and would like to get involved in the project, access the page here.
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