Health Improvement
Advice Centre
Issue 7; November 2015
This newsletter highlights some of our work over the last few months and provides an update on how our
service is developing. Since our last newsletter in August we have worked alongside the British Liver Trust
to promote the ‘Love Your Liver ‘ campaign and focused our attention on promoting healthy living within
OUHFT via joint promotions at the John Radcliffe Hospital with Sound Resource , Smokefreelife Oxfordshire and the Oxford Academic Health Science Network. For the later we focused on the Children's Flu
vaccine and the joint NHS England and Public Health England campaign ’Stay Well This Winter’. Thank
you for your continued support and interest in the service that Here for Health provides.
Figure 1: Love your Liver event
Figure 2: Oxford Academic Health Science Network event
Under the Microscope
We would like to thank the Public Health Promotion Resource Unit in Oxford for the fantastic service it offers.
Without the support of this Unit the Here for Health Centre would look a lot more bear
and our ability to provide healthy living information and resources to our service users
would be restricted.
The Public Health Promotion Resource Unit, based in Blackbird Leys, offers an online resource catalogue for health professionals. It supplies free physical and digital health promotion materials to support staff working within the health promotion field throughout the county of Oxfordshire. The resources provided are evidence-based and the Unit offers a reliable means to regularly obtain health
promotion information. To find out how the Public Health Promotion Resource Unit can help you visit
https://hpu.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/ or call 01865 904350
Recruiting OUHFT Health Champions: Recognised by the Health & Wellbeing and Public Health strategies as a priority we want to create a movement of staff enthusiastic about the healthier living agenda.
For more information email anna.hinton@ouh.nhs.uk or call 01865 223334; Next training day 14/01/16.
Service user designation 1/9/15 - 31/10/15
In-patient
Non clincal
Nurse
AHP
Dr
Outpatient
Visitor
Carer
Topics covered with service users 1/9/15 - 31/10/15
Healthy Eating
Physical Activity
Weight Management
Blood Pressure
Alcohol
Medical Condition
Chronic Disease Risk
Emotional Wellbeing
Smoking
For someone else
Other
Family Health
Oral Health
Sexual Health
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Percentage of Service Users
Figure 3: Designation of service users
Figure 4: Breakdown of consultations by topic covered (Note:
more than 1 topic may have been covered with service user)
Service Developments
Education—We are proud to have been included as a spoke placement for Dietetics Students at OUH. In partnership with Emma Millard (Neurosciences Dietitian and Student Training Lead) Here for Health provide health promotion education for Dietetics students and the opportunity for them to design and deliver a healthy living promotion stand. The first cohort of dietetic students focused on alcohol awareness; student feedback was positive,
stating “really interesting”, “enjoyed being creative”, “expanded on different skills and was able to apply these to
dietetics” and “very supportive”.
It was a pleasure to be invited by Elaine Watson (ICD Advanced Nurse Practitioner) to present at the ICD Patient
Education session. The event took place on 23rd September and was very well attended and received by the patients. Here for Health presented a workshop on Healthy living and how to structure healthy choices into your daily routine. We are already looking forward to presenting at the next one in 2016.
New partnerships—The OUHFT Cancer Outpatients Department have welcomed our Tuesday morning health and
wellbeing promotional stand. The reception from staff , patients and visitors has been very positive and supportive
with 130 individuals accessing information with regard to healthy living between 18/08/15 and 24/11/15.
Research Nurses from The Oxford Biobank are working collaboratively with Here for Health to promote healthy
living in the prevention / management of chronic diseases. The Oxford Biobank conduct research into common
diseases like diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. If you are interested in finding out more please visit
http://www.oxfordbiobank.org.uk/
Promotional stands—Regular Thursday morning promotions with Smokefreelife Oxfordshire and Community
Dental Services (CDS) have been organised on the main Level 2 Corridor of the John Radcliffe Hospital for: Smokefreelife 17/12/15, 28/01/16, 25/02/16 and 31/03/16. CDS 10/12/15, 11/02/16, 14/04/16, 09/06/16 and 11/08/16.
Paediatrics—Here for Health form part of the patient pathway at a monthly Obesity Clinic organised by Dr Ranjini
Mohan in Paediatric Outpatients at the Horton Hospital. This is proving to be a great opportunity for us to engage
young people and their families in health behaviour change.
It is essential that we continue to strengthen our relationships with hospital and community
services. If you know of a service that would benefit from linking with us, or you would like
to update Here for Health about your service please contact us at:
hereforhealth@ouh.nhs.uk or telephone 01865 221429.
Áine and Emma appreciate your continued support and wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Look out for our next newsletter in February 2016.