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Vampire managers
  Some chief executives want blood. They demand loyalty, ruthlessness and total commitment. Whether deliberately or by default they creat a culture of intoxicating machismo. The aim is to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  23 Nov 2016
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Cities alive: a walking world
Mobility is intrinsic to the quality of life experienced in cities. But for the past century, the car has dominated how we plan and grow our urban areas. We must now seize the opportunity to place...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  22 Nov 2016
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Improving health through the home: a checklist for local plans and policies
The right home environment is essential to health and wellbeing, across the life course. This checklist, produced by Public Health England, helps people in the public health system to review...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  22 Nov 2016
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Just another day just another night terror
You are an office worker. Your day begins at the same time every morning and ends uneventfully back in bed at the same time every night. During the day you follow the same routine. You drive to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Nov 2016
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What are managers and professionals getting over enthusiastic about this week?
What are managers and professionals getting over enthusiastic about this week? Education, housing, environment, leisure and social services there isn't a local authority service that isn't...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Nov 2016
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Guide to adult social care: 'Don't be left in the dark'
At the National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) last week the Local Government Association launched a guide to adult social care, 'Don't be left in the dark - adult social...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  07 Nov 2016
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Heritage2health
Heritage2health is a coordinated approach to shared learning and understanding between health, social care, the creative industries, heritage and countryside sector. It seeks to bring these rich...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  07 Nov 2016
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New on-line prevention and wellbeing resource from SCIE
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have recently launched their launched their new prevention and wellbeing web pages. The development of preventative approaches and those which...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  07 Nov 2016
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Mental health, dementia and neurology intelligence and data tools
National Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Network: Updates and Developments New Products from Public Health England This is a copy of an e-mail for users who...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  02 Nov 2016
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How to kill enthusiasm and stifle initiative
  I once stood up at a large meeting of managers to announce that the social service department was going for Investors In People (IIP) accreditation for the whole department. I said how...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Nov 2016
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Consultation exercise for the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS)
NHS Digital has launched a consultation exercise for the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS), that will run for over 6 weeks and close on 30 December 2016. They are undertaking this...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  31 Oct 2016
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Health Surveys Programme E-Bulletin now available - October 2016
The latest issue of the Health Surveys Programme E-Bulletin is now available: E-Bulletin October 2016.pdf NHS Digital's Health Surveys Service can commission and manage contracts to carry out...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  31 Oct 2016
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Local wellbeing, local growth: adopting Health in All Policies
Resources to help local government improve local wellbeing and growth through its multiple functions, service areas and partnership working. These documents bring together the arguments for a...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  25 Oct 2016
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Creating age-friendly cities
As the number of older people living in cities increases, there is growing recognition that cities need to become 'age-friendly' to help people remain independent and active as they age. This...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  25 Oct 2016
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Physical and mental health benefits of access to green space
A range of bodies, including Government agencies, have promoted the possible physical and mental health benefits of access to green space. This POSTnote, titled Green Space and...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  25 Oct 2016
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Measuring and monitoring children and young people’s mental wellbeing: a toolkit for schools and colleges
This toolkit, published by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families aims to raise awareness amongst school and college staff of the range of validated tools that are available to...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  25 Oct 2016
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Write an essay on the future of the NHS - closing date 3rd January 2017
The King's Fund are holding an essay competition to stimulate new thinking and writing about the future of the NHS. They invite you to write your own essay exploring a future scenario for...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  25 Oct 2016
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The Mad Hatter's tea party
It was a large table set for many places. The mad hatter and the March hare sat together. Alice went to sit down. The mad hatter and the March hare shouted,"no room". Alice said " don' t be...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  21 Oct 2016
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Integrating home adaptations for better health and wellbeing outcomes
Public Health England commissioned Care and Repair England to produce a series of briefings to inform the local integration of home adaptations into commissioning for better health and wellbeing...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  14 Oct 2016
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Health in all policies: a manual for local government
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is an approach to policies that systematically and explicitly takes into account the health implications of the decisions we make; targets the key social...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  14 Oct 2016
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SCIE resources for anyone supporting people with dementia
"Most people say they would want to live at home for as long as possible if diagnosed with dementia.  And that’s mostly what happens. Two thirds of people with dementia live in the community,...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  14 Oct 2016
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Growing older in the UK - report by the British Medical Association
The UK’s ageing population and its families are being failed by a flawed and fragmented health and social support regime, a wide-ranging report by the BMA warns. The report, Growing Older in the...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  14 Oct 2016
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The day the sun didn't rise
It had been an unseasonably hot day and it was still uncomfortably warm in bed at 2 am.The duvet cover lay on the floor where I had kicked it off. There were a lot of animal noises, a donkey...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Oct 2016
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Protect tomorrow by helping today: people encouraged to sign up to innovative research project
People in Swansea and the surrounding areas are being encouraged to find out more about an innovative research project designed to better understand the health of the nation. The largest project...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  10 Oct 2016
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Conversations with young children
  First contact   I met Rosie An' Dani ,three names two bodies , on a hot sunny afternoon by the pool, in a walled garden, down a rough track, in a wooded valley know locally for...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Oct 2016
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The nature of the game
The relationship between a local authority director and their chief executive is like that between a premiership goal keeper and his manager. We all know how much a manager values a safe pair of...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Oct 2016
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Shifting the Gravity of Spending? FREE Workshop to explore methods in public health priority-setting
Shifting the Gravity of Spending? Workshop to explore methods in public health priority-setting 17 January 2017, Danubius Hotel Regents Park, London (FREE) A team of researchers led by Durham...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  06 Oct 2016
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How to catch a monkey
The monkeys live in the trees to catch them the locals place a large heavy pottery vase at the bottom of the tree and place fruit, sweets and other things the monkeys like to eat inside. The...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Oct 2016
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Personal well-being in the UK: local authority update, 2015 to 2016
Personal well-being in the UK: local authority update, 2015 to 2016 This publication from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) presents estimates of personal well-being for UK local...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  04 Oct 2016
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Diabetes prevalence model for local authorities and CCGs
This model, produced by Public Health England and the National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network, estimates the total number  of adults with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in England. The...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  04 Oct 2016
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Effective Health and Wellbeing Boards - findings from 10 case studies
Shared Intelligence were commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) to explore in detail the characteristics of an effective Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB). They did...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  04 Oct 2016
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Please lend your support to the latest wave of the Government’s major survey of underage smoking, drinking and drug use
The latest wave of the Government’s Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Among Young People in England (SDD) is taking place in secondary schools across the country now.  The survey has run almost...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  03 Oct 2016
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Living with Dementia
Living with dementia is not about some one with dementia, it's not about caring for someone with dementia it about living in a residential  care home where everyone else has dementia. It's...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Oct 2016
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Putting the work into workshops – a matter of life and death
Making meetings effective could be a life and death issue. Partnership working often requires joint delivery of something – whether a strategy, programme of action, event or whatever.  But...
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Adrian Barker
Last updated:  30 Sept 2016
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Social care for older people: home truths
This report, published jointly by the Nuffield Trust with The King's Fund, looks at the current state of social care services for older people in England, through a combination of national data and...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  29 Sept 2016
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The power of people in movements for health
Nesta has launched a new report, Health as a Social Movement: The Power of People in Movements, produced as part of NHS England’s Health as a Social Movement Programme. It illuminates the...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  29 Sept 2016
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Walking for Health
In England, half of all adults are not active enough to benefit their health. This means that they are at risk of developing serious illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. But it...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Sept 2016
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Housing team reduces discharge delays and saves £1.4m
How working together can save money for the NHS each year and improve quality of life for patients By Michelle Turton, Housing Needs Manager Mansfield District Council SCIE Featured article - 22...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Sept 2016
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Work placement opportunity for young people with autism
Currently, one in a hundred people in the UK have autism, yet only 15% of adults with autism are in full-time employment. The Civil Service Autism Exchange Programme, now in its third year,...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  27 Sept 2016
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What was once successful now is not
  Charismatic and autocratic have had their day - well almost. Driven by austerity and made fashionable by the success of a high profile few this type of leadership was in demand. This was...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Sept 2016
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