Tag: National Health Executive

Podcast

One part of the mental health toolkit, Nicholas Rowley

Source: Finger on the Pulse Podcast, National Health Executive

Mental health has always been an area of significant discussion in the health sector, from clinicians to solution through to prevention. But, on Episode 10 of NHE’s Finger on the Pulse podcast host Matt Roberts chats with Nicholas Rowley of the Manchester branch of Andy’s Man Club, a mental health charity aimed at supporting men to talk about their mental health problems and overcome some of the stigma, to understand what services are out there to address mental health provision beyond the traditional clinical settings.

Listen to this podcast here.

Webinar

Keeping The Clinician By The Bedside

Source: National Health Executive

Watch the recording of this webinar from NHE’s Finger on the Pulse podcast. It features Will Warburton from the Health Foundation and Dr Shanti Vijayaraghavan and the focus is on the ability to provide results and support virtually to patients, without an in-person visit, allowing much greater convenience for patients.

NHE Virtual Festival

Net Zero NHS: Leaders Debate: Travel & Transport

Patients, visitors, workers, and suppliers to the NHS account for roughly 3.5% of all road travel in England, accounting for nearly 14% of the system’s total emissions. Some of the broad interventions considered to reduce this, range from transitioning to low-emission vehicles, to reducing unnecessary journeys and enabling healthier, active forms of travel such as cycling and walking. 

On 25 August NHE are bringing industry leaders together to share knowledge and insight on how we can achieve a net-zero NHS.

Register to join here.

Public Health

Keeping up to date with current awareness

Childhood during coronavirus: protecting children from the effects of poverty

Action for Children

This report presents findings from an analysis of applications submitted to Action for Children’s Emergency Fund. It reflects on the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic for children and families and in doing so, the report also considers the recovery measures needed to ensure that children are supported to thrive – both now, and in the months and years ahead. More detail.

It’s everywhere’: alcohol’s public face private harm

Independent Commission on Alcohol Harm

This Commission was set up by alcohol health experts and parliamentarians to examine the full extent of alcohol harm across the UK. In this, its final report, the Commission outlines recommendations for reducing harm and calls for a national strategy for alcohol. More detail.

The broken plate 2020: the state of the nation’s food system

The Food Foundation

This report presents 10 vital signs that document the health of our food system, how it impacts on our lives, and why we must change the food environment. It highlights the struggle for lower-income families to afford a healthy diet, arguing that 20 per cent of households with the lowest levels of disposable income would have to spend 39 per cent of their disposable income in order to eat a healthy diet, as defined by the government’s recommended Eatwell Guide. More detail.

NHS Covid App – over 10 million downloads

Department of Health and Social Care, September 2020

More than 10 million people downloaded the new NHS Covid-19 app between its launch on Thursday 24 September and Sunday 27 September.Six million of those downloads were on the first day.

Surge in people checking their risk of type 2 diabetes

NHE, September 2020

Almost 300,000 people have accessed the tool to check their risk of type 2 diabetes online less than two months after the NHS fast tracked access to its world leading Healthier You Diabetes Prevention Programme. Latest figures show that 291,325 people used the Diabetes UK Know Your Risk tool since the end of July – a 637% increase compared to two months previously.