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One hour of activity needed to offset harmful effects of sitting at a desk
Risk of dying increases among desk-based workers who sit for eight hours and do low amounts of exercise, new research finds - link to Guardian article At least an hour of physical activity a day...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  02 août 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 24th-30th July
Here are a few of the more significant health and wellbeing policy news items from the last week.  A fuller list is available here.   28 July 2016 More details of the new voluntary GP...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  31 juil. 2016
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What can Pokémon Go do for your council and community?
Could the Pokemon Go craze have a positive impact on your community? This article in Public Sector Executive highlights the potential opportunities for local services and...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  28 juil. 2016
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Betrayal and back stabbing in modern times
  Professional footballers are labelled disloyal because they no longer stay with one club but move around chasing money and winners medals. Politicians call each other backstabbers as they...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  26 juil. 2016
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Canal & River Trust days out for kids
Ditch the screens and get outdoors! The impact of computer games on our children’s development is an ongoing debate – as is the effect of adults being stuck to our smart phones all weekend…...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  26 juil. 2016
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Grandchildren,dogs and chocolate biscuits
  In her dreams she is always lost. Awake she walks into the wardrobe looking for the way out in the dark. The flat is hot, she sleeps a lot. Sometimes when the three of us are talking her...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  06 sept. 2016
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Business like pisses people off
Being business like  has come to mean winning contracts. Hence the chief executive of a small voluntary organisation that has grown into a dominant player in the market claims " rivals" don't...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 juil. 2016
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Why register with LG Inform?
LG Inform will be three years old this Sunday and we have a well-established and every growing user group. All local authorities now have registered users but we have many users who just use the...
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Alexandra Marshall
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 juil. 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 15th-24th July 2016
Here are some of the bigger items of health and wellbeing policy news collected in the last week.  A fuller list (in date order) is available here. 21 July 2016 A 'reset' of NHS finances will...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  25 juil. 2016
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Health matters: getting every adult active every day
The latest edition of Public Health England's Health Matters introduces a range of data, tools and resources to help professionals promote adult physical activity. This edition focuses on getting...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  21 juil. 2016
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Why the closure of care.data is bad news for the NHS and society
Article by Roger Taylor published by the Guardian Healthcare Network Without data sharing we are either blind to the impact of social institutions or we give those who run them control over the...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  21 juil. 2016
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Dry stone walling
Can a leader take a group of misfits and make them into a strong, effective unit, a sort of "Dirty Dozen" only not by focusing their aggression but channelling their independence of thought. More...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  20 juil. 2016
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Wouldn't it be nice
  Leaders have vision. Leaders can describe what the future will look like if we only have faith in them. So what, we can all say "wouldn't it be nice if.....?" The difference is they...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  18 juil. 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 11th-15th July 2016
Here are some of the bigger stories from last week.  A fuller list (in date order) is available here.   14 July 2016 Jeremy Hunt remains as health secretary,  one of only four...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  16 juil. 2016
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LG Inform local benchmarking – Q1 opens today!
LG Inform local benchmarking – Q1 opens today! LG Inform has a local benchmarking club, it currently allows users to upload provisional data for eight metrics. Quarter 1 upload window opens today....
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Alexandra Marshall
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Dernière mise à jour:  14 juil. 2016
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Wheel chair rage
  Narrow medieval streets packed tight with meandering tourist are not the easiest place to navigate a wheel chair, add hot sun and a deceptive incline and the result is wheel chair rage....
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  12 juil. 2016
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Invitation to a workshop: Transparency in Health and Social Care, (21st July in London, 22nd July in Manchester)
The Department of Health’s Transparency Team would like to invite you to a Workshop on Intelligent Transparency in Health and Social Care. This event will be held in two locations:   ...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  12 juil. 2016
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Circular Economy… it’s the way forward
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UDiTE Admin
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Dernière mise à jour:  11 juil. 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 1st-11th July 2016
There's a longer list of this week's health and wellbeing policy news items on my website, but here are a few of the bigger items: 06 July 2016 The Government is to impose the revised junior...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  11 juil. 2016
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Cardiologist's Kitchen food blog
Helping everyone improve their health, blood pressure, cholesterol & weight through contemporary evidence-based dietary interventions Dr Ali Khavandi, a consultant interventional...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  11 juil. 2016
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Report and case studies - Public health's role in local government and NHS integration
The Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Public Health have teamed up in preparing a valuable report describing how public health can support integration, and through...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  11 juil. 2016
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Winter has come
There is a constant threat of decline and sense of wrongness in the world. There are kings and king makers, trial by combat, scheming and betrayal and a delicious habit of bumping of the biggest...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  08 juil. 2016
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Local Authorites in denial about racism
  Too many public sector organisations including Local Authorities are still in denial about racism due to their management culture.     The Macpherson enquiry...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  08 juil. 2016
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Blair on Leadership
" In the end you might be right or wrong but ultimately I think leadership is about assessing the situation as you see it and doing what you think is right , even if it's not always very popular"...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  06 juil. 2016
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Will intelligent machines ever replace me
We have been warned. Some very cleaver people like professor Steven Hawkins have told us that in the near future artificial intelligence will result in machines that can think. What will happen to...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  04 juil. 2016
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The fantasy of strong leadership
The cry goes up, "what we need is strong leadership" but what does strong leadership look like?  We have had charismatic leaders in the past and they certainly inspire people but they also...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  04 juil. 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 27th June - 1st July 2016
Here are a few of the 'bigger' (not necessarily more newsworthy) health and wellbeing policy items from the last week.  There are more at www.equwell.org.uk.   28 June 2016 The UK is in...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  02 juil. 2016
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Family Resources Survey (FRS) 2014/15
The Family Resources Survey (FRS) is a continuous household survey which collects information on a representative sample of private households in the United Kingdom. Detailed information is...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2016
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Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet - England, 2016
This visual statistical report presents a range of information on obesity, physical activity and diet, drawn together from a variety of sources. The topics covered include: Part 1: Overweight...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2016
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Health matters: giving every child the best start in life
This fifth edition of Health Matters, a resource to support professionals working to improve population health, focuses on giving every child the best start in life. This edition makes...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2016
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Securing healthy returns - realising the financial value of sustainable developments
New research and tools for health professionals A new report by the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS England and Public Health England has calculated the NHS and wider health sector could save...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2016
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Statistics on Smoking, England - 2016
This nicely visual statistical report presents a range of information on smoking which is drawn together from a variety of sources. The report aims to present a broad picture of health issues...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2016
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Health Matters: Bowel cancer prevention/detection toolkit
This sixth edition of Health matters, a resource to support professionals working to improve population health, focuses on bowel cancer. It includes advice on: promoting a...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2016
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Drinkaware's handy unit and calorie calculator tool
Drinkaware have produced a number of online tools and advice to help people to understand and track their drinking, and change habits for the better. Want to know what's in your drinks? Easy....
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  30 juin 2016
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Map of technology and data in health and care
This useful interactive map from the King's Fund brings together case studies from across England and the rest of world, highlighting some of the places that are experimenting with and...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  29 juin 2016
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Is xenophobia acceptable when racism isn't?
If it's not racism then what is it? We have a phrase for unintended prejudice and illinformed behaviour in organisations its " institutional racism". What is the equivalent for the same behaviour...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  29 juin 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 12-27 June 2016
Clearly the referendum result is eclipsing everything else at the moment, but there has also been quite a lot of health and wellbeing policy news in the last two weeks, albeit rather less...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 juin 2016
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Appointing a winner is no guarantee of success.
  It's generally assumed that if you appoint the right person success will follow. This assumption arises out of the tendency to look at successful organisations and attribute success to...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  26 juin 2016
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People-focused digital
As usual the national Digital Leaders conference in London last week was a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and new, listen to and learn from some first rate speakers and consider...
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Liz Copeland
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Dernière mise à jour:  20 juin 2016
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How to stand out
  The US work place is not kind to introverts. In the US the aim is to stand out. Those who stand out get the promotion they feel they deserve, so speak up at meetings, offer ideas, do...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  18 juin 2016
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21 surprising ways to kill collaboration in your organisation
We all talk about encouraging collaboration as a way of working in our organisation and across organisations. It’s a difficult task.  In a recent APM Knowledge SIG that I took part in we...
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Michael Norton
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Dernière mise à jour:  13 juin 2016
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Evolution of intelligent machines
  Machines, intelligent machines are ideal for space exploration, they don't need oxygen, water or food and they don't age. The last is important as the distances in space travel are...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  12 juin 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 5th - 12th June 2016
This week's health and wellbeing policy news is available here.  A few of the more impactful items of the week are: The performance of the NHS in England improved slightly in April, but it...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  12 juin 2016
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Horrible Bosses
  What do Mike Ashley and Jose Mourinho have in common? Both are arrogant both were in trouble over their treatment of their employees. It not just in the private sector that some bosses...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  08 juin 2016
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Take me to your leader
According to Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene if an alien was to visit Earth, the question it would pose to judge our intellectual maturity would be ,"Have they discovered evolution...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  07 juin 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 27th May - 5th June
There is a full list of health and wellbeing policy news items from the past week here.  Some of the more significant items were:   The system of serious case reviews is to be...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  05 juin 2016
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3 x 3 ways to waste less time in meetings
I was struck last week by how two different meetings failed to be as effective as they might have been, and how it was simple, and well-known advice that could have improved them. Both suffered...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  03 juin 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 23-27 May 2016
There's a full list of this week's health and wellbeing policy new items here, but a few of the key ones are: David Cameron has said he will take action on antimicrobial resistance (26th). ...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 mai 2016
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Please help support the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Survey in Schools
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s (HSCIC) survey of Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People is a long standing, large scale survey of young people aged 11-15 years in...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 mai 2016
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Just what the doctor ordered: social prescribing - a guide for local authorities
On 18 May, the LGA published a new report on ‘social prescribing’. This is a useful resource on how councils can more effectively connect people with local community services and activities in...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 mai 2016
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What about YOUth (WAY) consultation report now published
The Health and Social Care Information Centre recently ran a public consultation for the What About YOUth? (WAY) survey that ran for 6 weeks from 18 January 2016 and closed...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 mai 2016
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Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) data available in LG Inform
The Department for Education has been working with the LG Inform team to add a range of published SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) data into the LG Inform database.   The...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  27 mai 2016
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Most organisations are not safe places to say what you are really thinking
  If you want to get on don't rock the boat. Don't contradict your manager. Best avoid topics of race , faith and sexuality so as not to risk saying the wrong thing. Don't go out of your way...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  26 mai 2016
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Health and Wellbeing Policy News 16-23 May 2016
 It's been a big news week for health and wellbeing policy.  More detail can be found here, but a few of the key items are:   Agreement in the junior doctors' dispute was finally...
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Adrian Barker
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Dernière mise à jour:  23 mai 2016
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Gardens and health - implications for policy and practice
The National Gardens Scheme commissioned The King’s Fund to write an independent report on the benefits of gardens and gardening on health. The report has three aims: to collate and summarise...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  23 mai 2016
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Hospital to Home evaluation report
The Hospital to Home project was designed to identify and improve care pathways from hospital to home in the Tayside region of Scotland. The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  23 mai 2016
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Working together to promote active travel: a briefing for local authorities
This Public Health England briefing is for transport planners and public health practitioners, and sets out the benefits of active travel. This guide suggests a range of practical actions for...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  23 mai 2016
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National Mental Health Intelligence Network - Launch of Crisis Care Data Catalogue
The National Mental Health Intelligence Network have announced the launch of the mental health crisis care data catalogue.  This work has been delivered as part of a sector-wide drive...
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Philippa Lynch
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Dernière mise à jour:  23 mai 2016
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The science of marginal gains
  A wide range of small minor improvements together make a significant difference to performance. This is particularly significant when the difference between success and failure is so...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  21 mai 2016
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Rescue me
In the office we referred sarcastically to a colleague who seemed to want to rescue those they worked with. Every office had one. They invariably came from a 'good ' background and were perhaps...
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Blair McPherson
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Dernière mise à jour:  16 mai 2016
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