Wednesday 14 September 2016

Nurse bank campaign shortlisted for national award

Nurse bank campaign shortlisted for national award

A successful campaign to recruit nurses to its staff bank has seen Northampton General Hospital shortlisted in the most sought-after awards in the British health sector. The hospital's nurse bank campaign, entitled "Join our bank and we'll invest in you" has been shortlisted in the staff engagement category of the HSJ Awards.
NGH News

News story: New £816 million investment in health research

News story: New £816 million investment in health research

Leading NHS clinicians and universities will benefit from new world class facilities and support services built by the 5-year funding package totalling £816 million – the largest ever investment into health research.

Mental health research will see funding increase to nearly £70 million, dementia to over £45 million, deafness and hearing problems will receive over £15 million and antimicrobial resistance research rises to around £45 million.
Department of Health

Promotional material: Health and work: infographics

Promotional material: Health and work: infographics

Public Health England (PHE) and The Work Foundation have collaborated to produce the following 12 infographics:
Spotlight on mental health
Cost of ill health
Health of the working age population
Health of UK employees
Spotlight on musculoskeletal conditions (MSK)
Managing health at work for employers
Spotlight on small medium enterprises (SME)
Unemployment and economic inactivity
Welfare
The local picture
Supporting older workers with health problems
Young people and health at work

These infographics are intended to help public health practitioners, local authorities and policy makers to make the case and inform planning on embedding health, work and worklessness within and across these issues.
Download the infographic files and references.

Guidance: Flu vaccination: easy read invitation letter template

Guidance: Flu vaccination: easy read invitation letter template

This letter is for health professionals to give to people with learning difficulties and their parents and carers/guardians, either by hand or by post, preferably with an accompanying information leaflet.

Staff can adapt the template format for GP surgeries and health professionals for patients to have their annual flu vaccination.

Download the file to add the name of the practice and other details as appropriate, or print as-is, add notes by hand and then photocopy to share.
Public Health England

Supporting self-management: a guide to enabling behaviour change for health and wellbeing using person- and community-centred approaches

Supporting self-management: a guide to enabling behaviour change for health and wellbeing using person- and community-centred approaches

This guide outlines how the science of behaviour can help people to self-manage their health and wellbeing. It is written for people who support those living with long-term conditions, or those who help people avoid these conditions using person- and community-centred approaches.

NESTA 

Guide

NESTA publications

E-cigarettes 'help more smokers quit'

E-cigarettes 'help more smokers quit'

The rise in popularity of e-cigarettes in the UK appears to be helping more smokers successfully quit smoking, say researchers.
BBC News

NHS England to make existing care models 'progressively less attractive'

NHS England to make existing care models 'progressively less attractive'

NHS England will make it 'progressively less attractive' to continue working in traditional health systems - such as standalone GP practices - in a bid to extend new care models across 50% of England's population by 2020/21.
GP Online

Integrated care for the physical health of people with severe mental illness: no easy answers

Integrated care for the physical health of people with severe mental illness: no easy answers

Liz Hughes summarises a recent rapid review on integrated care to address the physical health needs of people with severe mental illness.
Mental Elf

Commissioning early intervention services for mental ill health

Commissioning early intervention services for mental ill health

This report showcases projects that promote early intervention in mental health and draws out tips from commissioners and practitioners involved in their development and delivery.
NHS Networks

New video on end-of-life care training

New video on end-of-life care training

In this short video, we learn how Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and private care home, Broughton House, brought significant benefits to staff and patients by adopting a joined-up approach to training in end-of-life care.
NHS Networks