Health Promotion Winners at the Royal Society for Public Health Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony
The Health Promotion and Community Well Being Organisation and Partnership Awards were made at the Annual Conference of the Royal Society for Public Health on 15 September 2009 in London.
This year the winners were:
- North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus.
- Healthy Ambitions Suffolk.
- NHS East Lancashire.
RSPH Chief Executive, Professor Richard Parish, said ‘I am absolutely delighted at the success of our 2009 award winners. The process is a rigorous one and all the organisations deserve the national recognition that the Royal Society for Public Health Award has presented. Ultimately, it is the public who will benefit from their impressive, well designed and organised local programmes’.
Dr Peter Bradley, Director of Public Health for NHS Suffolk and Suffolk County Council, said: ‘Receiving this award from the RSPH is a huge affirmation of the project’s main aims and shows that, by working together, we can make a real difference to people’s health, well being and quality of life’.
Jane Lewington, Chief Executive of North East Lincolnshire CTP, said: ‘This award is great news for both the staff involved and the residents of North East Lincolnshire. One of the aims of the CTP is creating a healthier community and this recognition shows we are making progress towards this’.
Janet Walton, Head of Public Health Development for NHS East Lancashire, said: ‘I am extremely proud of this achievement for NHS East Lancashire, which recognises the enormous amount of excellent health promotion work that has taken place in the PCT, and, just as importantly, its continuing commitment to health promotion principles'.
The Health Promotion and Community Well Being Organisation and Partnership Awards recognise achievement in the development and implementation of health promotion and community well being strategies and initiatives, which are in support for the workforce.
This award is linked to the work of the Shaping the Future Collaboration.
For further information on the RSPH Health Promotion Awards, please click here or contact Nelly Araujo at naraujo@rsph.org.uk
Update on the Registration of Public Health Practitioners
A report on the results from the extensive consultations concerning the regulation of public health practitioners was made to the UKPHR Board in May 2009. Over the summer considerable work has gone into the collation of the numerous helpful and constructive comments received, including a re-drafting of the standards for registration. Thanks go to every individual, group, and organisation that contributed. A full report of the consultation is available on the website.
In re-drafting the standards for registration of public health practitioners the UKPHR has attempted to accommodate all of the comments received whilst ensuring an emphasis on the need for:
- simplicity
- robustness
- capability for cost-effective implementation
- clear focus on public health practice, linked to the assessment of risk
- feedback from practitioners and employers as to what would work.
The re-drafted standards will be circulated and available on our web site for final comment during October 2009.
The UKPHR Board remains committed to ensuring that a coherent regulatory pathway for public health practitioners is achieved. This commitment was re-stated at the September 2009 Board meeting.
While the four UK Departments of Health also remain committed to the development of specialists and practitioners who contribute to public health delivery, over the course of the past few months they have indicated their desire to carry out a review of the regulatory frameworks applied to public health professionals. This has been led by the DH England as professional regulation is not a devolved matter. This review is to ensure that current policy, particularly that adopted over the last 5 years regarding the regulation of healthcare professionals, has been considered for the full range of public health professions.
The DH reported at the UKPHR September Board that this review would be due to report in December 2009. In light of this development the UKPHR has been advised by the UK Departments of Health not to implement the route to practitioner registration until the review has reported. This would enable all concerned to consider the findings of the review carefully before moving forward. The UKPHR recognises the significance of this regulatory review and wishes to support the UK Departments of Health in this development through providing as much input to the review as is possible.
The UKPHR is conscious that the work to date has raised expectations within the public health practitioner workforce for the early implementation to a regulatory pathway for those currently out-with a registration framework. However, this must be balanced against the needs of the regulatory review. The UKPHR has therefore agreed to move forward over the next 3 months in areas that will support and not prejudice the outcomes of the review, including the finalising of the regulatory standards and a mapping of these against existing frameworks for public health practitioner development. This will enable us to make rapid progress once the review findings have been reflected upon in the New Year.
For further information please visit www.publichealthregister.org.uk
Lambeth and Southwark Health Promotion Network – Making Health Promotion Count
The Lambeth and Southwark Health Promotion Network met for the first time in late 2008. The Network was formed after the decommissioning of Health First, the specialist Health Promotion agency, which served Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham PCTs.
The Network has the overarching objective of providing a powerful voice for health promoters, wherever they may work within Lambeth and Southwark. Our vision is that as the Network grows it will ensure the contribution of health promotion to reducing health inequalities is fully understood, recognised and celebrated.
If you are interested in finding out more about the Lambeth and Southwark Health Promotion Network or you would like to share your learning about being involved in, or setting up a health promotion network please contact Charles Aina, Health improvement Manager at Charles.Aina@Southwarkpct.nhs.uk
New Health Promotion Discussion Forum at VHPO
The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE ) have now launched an online discussion on the forum ‘Views of Health Promotion Online’ (VHPO) which can be found at www.vhpo.net .
Some of the ongoing discussions include:
To access these and more topics click on “dialogues in process” and go to the discussion on HP/SM. To take part in the discussion you need to register as a user which is located on the left of the window. Posts can be very brief and informal.
