Welcome to the 2nd day in our week of action on health improvement and health promoting practitioners
This short blog is to provide a pointer for what we have coming up today and some things you may want to book for later in the week.
Blogs coming to this site today:
- The importance of the contribution of nursing, midwifery and AHP to population health - Kevin Fenton, National Director for Health and Well-Being, Public Health England (you can also see Kevin's video message at http://youtu.be/Ir3_BDx3W6I )
- Personalised Care - The Challenge for the 21st Century – Dr Charles Alessi, GP and senior adviser and lead for preventable dementia in Public Health England
- Vitamins for a Health Start - Tricia Morris, Project Manager Health Food Schemes, Department of Health (if this blog is of interest to you you may also wish to join the today's webchat - see details below)
- Experiences from the Frontline – Visit with Liz Alderton, District Nurse– David Foster, Deputy Director of Nursing, Department of Health
Today's Web-chat
- 10am-11.30am, Tuesday 24th June - Eat, Sleep, Drink – web chat on children and young people 0-19yrs with Pauline Watts, Professional Officer for Health Visiting, and Wendy Nicholson, Professional Officer for School and Community Nursing, at the Department of Health. To book your place please e-mail fiona.hill@dh.gsi.gov.uk
(If this webchat is of interest to you you may also be interested in Tricia Morris' blog on Healthy Start Vitamins)
- We'll be Tweeting throughout the day facts relating to obesity and healthy eating
Visits
On the road today we have
- Joanne Bosanquet, Deputy Director of Nursing at PHE, who will be in Exeter at the Southern regional PHE centre.
- Alison raw, Professional Officer for AHPs at DH visiting a dietitian in Camden, London
Professional Journals
Keep you eyes open for related articles appearing in professional journals during the week or on their websites (some journals will be subscription/membership access only). An interview with Viv for Independent Nurse can already be found at http://bit.ly/1kN7nSu and Nursing Standard have run an article on the forthcoming Framework for Personalised Care and Population Health in last week's edition (vol 28 No 42 June 18-24 June). There is also an interview with Alison Raw , DH AHP lead, on the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy website:
Nursing & Midwifery
- Nursing Standard http://www.nursing-standard-journal.co.uk
- Nursing Times http://www.nursingtimes.net
- Independent Nurse http://www.independentnurse.co.uk
- Journal of Community Nursing http://www.jcn.co.uk/
- British Journal of School Nursing
AHP
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapy - Frontline
- College of Occupational Therapists - OT News
- Society of Radiographers - Synergy News
- The British Dietetics Association - Dietetics Today
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist - Bulletin
- The Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists - Podiatry Now
- British and Irish Orthoptic Society - Parallel Vision
Things to plan for the rest of the week:
- 10am-11.30am, Wednesday 25th June – Eat, Sleep, Drink –another opportunity for a web chat on children and young people 0-19yrs with Pauline Watts, Professional Officer for Health Visiting, and Wendy Nicholson, Professional Officer for School and Community Nursing, at the Department of Health. To book your place please e-mail fiona.hill@dh.gsi.gov.uk
- 3pm, Wednesday 25th June - AHP – Are You A Health Promoting Practitioner? – webinar hosted by Linda Hindle, Public Health England, and Alison Raw, Department of Health. Book a place with Olabisi.osiade@dh.gsi.gov.uk
- 1.00pm-1.45pm, Thursday 26th June– Keep Your Hands Off Other People’s Monkeys (Behaviour Change Interventions)– webinar with Jan Proctor King. To book a place please e-mail: ian.packman@dh.gsi.gov.uk
- 8pm, Thursday 26th June - How can we all be health promoting practitioners? – Twitter chat hosted by @WeNurses. For more details follow link: @WeNurses Twitter Chat
- 3.30pm-5pm, Friday 27th June - Sexual Health Awareness – Web chat with Dave Evans, Senior Lecturer at University of Greenwich, hosted by the Royal College of Nursing. To book your place please e-mail Sam at nursing.dept3@rcn.org.uk
