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Things about Dept of Health...

The Department of Health and Social Care has set out its objectives and how it will deliver them. The full report can be read here. Their objectives are:

• Keep people healthy and support economic productivity and sustainable public services
• Transform primary, community and social care to keep people living more independent, healthier lives for longer in their community
• Support the NHS to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable hospital care and secure the right workforce
• Support research and innovation to maximise health and economic productivity
• Ensure accountability of the health and care system to Parliament and the taxpayer; and create an efficient and effective DHSC
• Create value (reduced costs and growing income) by promoting better awareness and adoption of good commercial practice across the DHSC and our arm’s length bodies

Things about health and greenspace...

The Department of Landscape and Improving Wellbeing through Urban Nature (IWUN) project invites you to the fifth seminar of the 2017/18 'Health in Place' seminar series. In the fifth of this series of seminars, Dr Paul Brindley IWUN, University of Sheffield discusses the relationship between urban greenspace and general health. The seminar will take place:

Date: Tuesday 12 June 2018

Time: 4pm-5pm

Venue: ICOSS Conference room, University of Sheffield, S1 4DP

Book your place

There has been a growing body of research exploring the health benefits of greenspace. Most, however, treat all urban greenspaces as the same and does not explore distinctions between types of greenspace. In our presentation they will explore the health benefits associated with (1) domestic gardens; (2) landscape metrics (measures that quantify specific spatial characteristics of areas of land, i.e. exploring the configuration of space); (3) trees and areas of woodland; and (4) the differing 'quality' of publicly accessible urban greenspace. Their work includes innovative techniques to explore the potential of quality measures extracted from social media (including Twitter and Flickr data).

Things about Quality...

The BMJ in partnership with and funded by The Health Foundation are launching a joint series of papers exploring how to improve the quality of healthcare delivery. The series aims to discuss the evidence for systematic quality improvement, provide knowledge and support to clinicians and ultimately to help improve care for patients.

Things about physical & mental health...

A new collaborative to support the physical health of people with a mental illness is being created following models in New Zealand & Australia. The Centre for Mental Health, Kaleidoscope and Rethink Mental Illness are working together with support from the Royal College of GPs and the Royal College of Psychiatrists to create an Equally Well collaborative here in the UK. They want to bring together health and care providers, commissioners, professional bodies, service user and carer organisations, charities and many more, working nationally or locally, to form a collaborative in the UK to bring about equal physical health for people with a mental illness.

They plan in their first year to:

• Co-produce a Charter for Equal Health, setting out the shared principles, aims and objectives of Equally Well in the UK
• Develop a web resource to provide up-to-date information, briefings and case studies
• Bring together organisations that become part of Equally Well for a national event to share good practice and agree priorities for the future

Things about patient information...

The Patient Information Forum are  holding an event on the Perfect Patient Information Journey on Thursday 28 June 2018 in London. Draft agenda for the day and the link for booking.This event will include the launch of the final report of their Perfect Patient Information Journey project. 

Things about obesity...

An meta-analysis and systematic review in 'Obesity Reviews' was published this week which looks at 'Maintenance interventions for overweight or obesity in children'. In summary, this review shows that, although there is limited quality data to recommend one maintenance intervention over another, continued treatment does have a stabilizing effect on BMI-Z-score. Considering the magnitude of the problem of childhood obesity, this is an important finding that highlights the need for further research on weight loss maintenance.

Things about opening hours...

Next week we will be closed on the bank holiday Monday and then closing at 5pm the rest of the week due to staff annual leave. Mine will be spent working on the nearly finished extension and so will soon be able to return to 'proper' cooking!

Things to eat...

I am looking forward to being able to cook pieces of meat that are bigger than my microwave so this Greek roast lamb is likely to make an appearance before too long. Perfect with a green salad and feta cheese.