Public Health in Warwickshire: Achievements in 2016
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Many more of our achievements are outlined below:
Children and Young People
- Staff and students from 16 schools attended the first Child Sexual Exploitation Youth Conference
- Respect Yourself Website sold to Doncaster and went live in 2016.
- Respect Yourself launched three new videos to help parents talk to their teenagers about relationships and sexual health – respectyourself.info
Physical Activity, Weight Management and Healthy Eating
- Fitter Futures Warwickshire Physical Activity providers are currently training to take Cancer recovery referrals in 2017
- Fitter Futures Warwickshire One Year On event – in the last 12 months there have been over 2900 referrals and over 980 people have completed the programme
- Fitter Futures Warwickshire shortlisted for ‘best social media’ campaign at the National Communications Awards
- Food for Life – 4 Early Years providers awarded bronze
- Food for Life – 17 schools awarded bronze, silver or gold since 2015
- Food for Life hospital leaders – 9 wards have introduced communal dining and improved food choices at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Lifestyle Risk minimisation
- #onething completed 928 mini health checks in Warwickshire North and 685 #onething pledges were made
- Commissioned Integrated Sexual Health services that will be developing more online testing and assessments to improve access to the services
- Piloting the ‘Change Tool’ tool to support behaviour change
- End of Life Care Improvement Plan approved by Health and Wellbeing Board
- Health Protection Strategy 2017-2021 launched
- Smoking Still Kills Strategy published
- Number of women smoking during pregnancy reduced and is now below national figure
- Number of adult smokers continues to reduce
- Increase in number physically active adults – number of inactive adults down from 1 in 3 to 1 in 4
- 926 health checks resulted in diagnosis of previously unknown long term conditions
- Life expectancy increases
- Teenage conceptions continue to fall and now similar to England figure
- Breastfeeding initiation and 6-8 weeks
Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Five Ways to Wellbeing eLearning launched for Warwickshire County Council staff and adapted for NHS staff
- Supported the launch of It Takes Balls to Talk campaign developed by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
- Enhanced Living Well with Dementia website launched: warwickshire.gov.uk/dementia
Healthy Place
- Healthy Travel Choices Evidence Review published. Encouraging people to walk and cycle more.
- Hosted our 4th regulatory services event
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessments published this year include: Substance Misuse and Alcohol, Helping Vulnerable Children, Children Looked After, Youth Justice, Smoking, CCG JSNA Profiles
- Director of Public Health Annual Report 2016, Public Health Matters: Sex, Drugs and Fluoridation published