On the State of Public Health: Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2007
Published: 14 July 2008
The Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2007 draws attention to major health challenges requiring immediate action and details progress made in key areas identified in previous annual reports. The report focuses on teenage health, the risks inherent in undergoing surgery, the rising levels of oesophageal cancer, the importance of vaccination in improving public health and the issue of racism in medicine.
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High Quality Care For All: NSR final report launched
Lord Darzi has launched the Next Stage Review final report.
High Quality Care For All sets a new foundation for a health service that empowers staff and gives patients choice. It ensures that health care will be personalised and fair, include the most effective treatments within a safe system, and help patients to stay healthy.
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Health Profiles Published
Local authority Health Profiles were launched on 24th June 2008. The profiles give a snapshot of health in each local council in England using key health indicators, which enables comparison locally, regionally and over time.
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Practitioner Development
The UK Public Heath Register (formerly known as the UK Voluntary Register for Public Health Specialists) is working in collaboration with key partners in public health in developing the Public Health Register to include public health practitioners and public health advanced practitioners. The development draws from the recently published Public Health Skills and Career Framework.
Draft standards have been developed at the two levels – practitioner and advanced practitioner –
and are being tested with individuals likely to be working at these levels.
It is intended that the registration for practitioners will come into place at some point in 2009 although no firm decisions on timing have been made to date.
For the first UKPHR newsletter on practitioner regulation click here (MSword)
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The Public Health Skills and Career Framework now launched
The public health skills and career framework brings together for the first time public health competences and knowledge across nine career levels in a user friendly format. It is multi-disciplinary, UK-wide and applies to the public health workforce wherever they are based or by whomever employed. For more information about the PHSCF and relevant documents, click here.
The framework has been endorsed by the four UK Departments of Health and has been sent to all the main UK public health professional bodies for their endorsement. Download here (pdf).
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Health Protection 2008
15-17 September 2008
University of Warwick
Health Protection Agency
See the HPA website for further details
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World Social Marketing Conference
29-30 September 2008
Brighton & Hove
National Social Marketing Centre
See the conference website for further details
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Public Health 08: Achieving Cultural Change
This event is complimentary to public sector
8th October 2008
The Barbican Centre, London.
"Obesity is the most serious threat to the future health of our nation"
Peter Littlejohns, Clinical and Public Health Director, NICE
The figures on the subject show just how serious health issues have become. According to the Department of Health:
- A quarter of the adult population and one-fifth of children under the age of 16 are obese.
- Weight problems currently cost the UK economy around £16bn, which could rise to £50bn by the year 2050.
- From 2003 it is estimated that the cost of binge drinking was a further £20bn.
With heart disease now the biggest cause of death in the UK, and diseases such as diabetes becoming ever more common, it is clear that urgent action needs to be taken to halt such trends.
'Public Health 08: Achieving Cultural Change' will look at the ways in which the public sector has attempted to find solutions to these major issues, and the challenges that will be faced dealing with them in the future.
See the conference website for further details
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Health Impact Assessment & Sustainable Well-being
9th International HIA conference
9-10 October 2008
Liverpool
IMPACT, University of Liverpool
See the HIA conference website for further details
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Priorities 2008
29-31 October 2008
Conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health Care
Newcastle Gateshead
See the flyer [word] for further details
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