Achievements in 2016 – Warwickshire Public Health

Public Health in Warwickshire: Achievements in 2016

Many more of our achievements are outlined below:

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

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

#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

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 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