Welcome to the 4th 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:
- Delivering the Ambitions of Living Well For Longer: A Carer’s Perspective - Dame Philippa Russell, Chair of the UK government standing commission on Carers,
- Living Well For Longer - Jazz Bhogal, Deputy Director for the Reducing Premature Mortality Programme, Department of Health
- At the heart of it all: Personalised care and Population health – Viv Bennett, Director of Nursing, Department of Health and Public Health England ( located at https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/)
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC): Improving health and wellbeing, reducing avoidable mortality, reducing health inequalities - Sophie Taysom, Programme Manager, DH (You may also be interested in Sophie's Monday blog outlining the system-wide approach to MECC and Jazz Bhogal's blog today on Living Well For Longer. We also have a webinar today with Jan Proctor King on behaviour change interventions - details below)
Web & Twitter Chats
- 1.00pm-1.45pm– Keep Your Hands Off Other People’s Monkeys – a webinar on Behaviour Change Interventions with Jan Proctor King. To book your place please e-mail ian.packman@dh.gsi.gov.uk
- 8pm, How can we all be health promoting practitioners? – Twitter chat hosted by @WeNurses. For more details follow link @WeNurses Twitter Chat
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). The Nursing Standard's Special Public Health Issue came out yesterday. An interview with Viv for Independent Nurse can already be found at http://bit.ly/1kN7nSu 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
Visits:
On the road today we have:
- Viv Bennett will be visiting a Brook sexual health unit in London
- Wendy Nicholson, Professional Officer for School Community Nursing in Bristol at the University of West England meeting with SCPHN students
- Pauline Watts, Professional Officer for Health Visiting, will be at a Children's Centre in Newham to hear about health working alongside early years and some of the partnerships and new ways of working that are developing to promote improved health and well-being.
Things to plan for the rest of the week:
- 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
