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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Last updated:  26 Sept 2016
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