Health Care and Wellbeing e-newsletter for July 2009

Funded Innovative Scrutiny Reviews

Bids are invited for up to  £10,000 for an innovative scrutiny review relating to the contribution of  health and wellbeing to Community Cohesion.  The bidding guidance for this year's funding was launched on 13th July at the Healthy Accountability Forum, where Andrew Lawrence gave a presentation illustrating how Community Cohesion threads through all aspects of public sector service delivery, and encompasses age, status and disability as well as ethnicity.
 

Health Care and Wellbeing scrutiny support programme news   More information for innovative scrutiny bids, Expert Advisor and Events programme. Su Turner has joined the CfPS health team to develop work on health inequalities.

London Borough of Hackney. How can local services help to prevent short-term sickness absence from progressing to long term sickness absence and ultimately worklessness? The London Borough of Hackney is hosting an action learning conference  on Tuesday 21 July 2009 at Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, Hackney, EC1V 9LT to share the learning gained from the review, one of the four innovative reviews funded by the  CfPS.  Places still available.

Patient Safety Matters Andrea Sutcliffe Chief Executive of the Appointments commission made the point in her workshop at the CfPS annual conference that effective formal and informal partnership working is important between Trust Boards and local authority overview and scrutiny committees but relationships have still to realise their full potential for keeping the health service on track to implement Lord Darzi’s review High Quality Care for All.  

The glass half full. If you think the public health message consists mostly of don’ts and not enough dos,  Trevor Hopkins’ look at how  to reduce health inequalities by building on the assets that already exist in a community, and developing others to promote health, is for you. Trevor gave this workshop at the CfPS annual conference.

Web Digest  Web pages to look at this month includes the Prime Ministers Commission on Nursing and Midwifery ; Dignity in Care, the publication of the last stage of High Quality Care for All, the NHS Confederation's policy briefing and the NICE shared learning awards.

Elections? Whether or not your authority has new health scrutiny committee chairs and vice chairs, changes in health scrutiny support staff; keep us updated and send your current details to laura.freeborn@cfps.org. Don't forget to register for the newsletter as well, and forward it to new members and staff.

New to the Library.

Dorset; Alcohol Misuse and the risks to young people's health and behaviour This review was carried out because of the concern elected members had for the young people of Dorset in relation to the dangers posed by the national obsession with drinking alcohol as part of everyday life.

Too much too young? Alcohol misuse among young Londoners This report  highlights the problems of alcohol misuse among young people, as well as outlining a set of recommendations that will help young Londoners stay safe with alcohol.

10 questions guides
A new guide to end of life care will shortly be published, and three new publications on Commissioning.

National Networking Events 

Taunton 15th Oct; Manchester 21st October; London 18th November; Leeds 24th November