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Opportunity to join a panel of specialist advisers to RIEPs
Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) are inviting applications from suitably qualified individuals to join a panel of specialist advisors who will support local authorities and their strategic partners to improve the delivery of public services. The advisors will provide advice, coaching, training and mentoring to support local partnerships in their delivery of services through the new performance framework, local area agreements and multi area agreements.
Smoking Costing NHS £2.7 billion a Year
New Report Calls for Action to Protect Young People and Curb Tobacco Marketing
Local basket of indicators web tool
The Local basket of indicators (LBOI) is an easy to use tool that gives push button access to a set of periodically updated indicators at local authority level....
The Regional Maternity Survey Office
The Regional Maternity Survey Office (RMSO) was established in 1981 with the purpose of studying perinatal mortality and its causes (Perinatal Mortality Survey)....
PHINE Events Function
In past PHINE network meetings, members have expressed an interest in having a regional calendar of events on the PHINE website....
Working Together to Deliver World Class Commissioning in the North East Event
On 23rd June 2008, NEPHO hosted an event which brought together Commissioners, Public Health practitioners, Local Authority and academics from the North East to exchange views and good practice about we can develop our commissioning competencies to help meet the needs of our North East population....
Additions to the National Library for Public Health
The National Library for Public Health has recently been updated to include a number of new topic areas as part of the National Library for Health Specialist Libraries....
Draft Strategy for the North East Public Health Observatory
The North East Public Health Observatory has launched a draft five year strategy paper and would encourage comments from stakeholders.
2007 Adult Mental Health Workbook
The 2007 Adult Mental Health Workbook and accompanying brief are now available on line
National Cancer E-Atlas
A new public website - 'Cancer e-Atlas' has been launched by the newly established National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) to improve public access to basic cancer statistics at Local Authority and Cancer Network level across England. It presents data on the incidence of, and mortality / survival from the main types of cancers in men and women - 21 Jul 2008
Launch of National Cancer e-Atlas in England
A new public website ‘Cancer e-Atlas’ has been launched by the newly established National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) to improve public access to basic cancer statistics at Local Authority and Cancer Network level across England....
North East Health Profile - 2008
The North East Health Profile 2008 gives a snapshot of health in the North East region. With other regional and local information, this Health Profile has been designed to support action by local government and primary care trusts to tackle health inequalities and improve the health of the population.
Migrant Health
NEPHO has just published a report: "New arrivals in North East England: mapping migrant health and NHS delivery"....
Health Profiles Launch
Health Profiles for every local authority and region across England were published today by the Department of Health and the Association of Public Health Observatories....
The Profiles use key health indicators to capture a picture of the nation’s health down to local level, providing areas across England with valuable information to improve their population’s health....
Health inequalities: progress and next steps
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National Cancer Intelligence Network
The recently published Cancer Reform Strategy for the NHS heralded the establishment of a new National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) for the NHS to bring together cancer patient data sets and present analyses of key cancer information to help cancer service planning, patient choice and the development of cancer prevention programmes. Launch at the London Hilton Metropole - 18 Jun 2008
National Library for Public Health Update
The National Library for Public Health has been officially launch last April 2008 and had successfully carried out its first National Knowledge Week focussed on Childhood Obesity: Prevention and Surveillance....
Regional Statement of Priorities on Mental Health & Employment
Recently, organisations in the North East have been working together to find ways to tackle some of the main problems that people with mental health problems are faced with when they are trying to get a job....
The State of the Region Report
The 2008 State of the Region Report has been published by the North East Regional Information Partnership (NERIP)....
Further release of NHS Comparators
NHS Comparators is continually being developed and the latest set of extra comparators and new functionality are now live....
Statistics on Alcohol
This statistical report presents a range of information on alcohol use and misuse drawn together from a variety of published sources
ESRC CASE Studentship: Climate Change, socio-technical transitions and housing provision
Cities are critical sites in the response to climate change....
ESRC 1+3 CASE PhD Studentship: Understanding the relationship between resilience and health in the N
Applications are invited for this exciting and prestigious studentship which will cover costs of fees and maintenance for a four year programme (1+3) of postgraduate study at Durham's world leading (RAE 5***) Department of Geography and will involve collaboration with the NHS North East Public Health Observatory (NEPHO)....
NYCRIS Cancer Information Service
The Cancer Information Service (CIS) hosted by NYCRIS and covering the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and East Midlands has now been updated to include incidence, mortality and survival data for 2005. This system can be accessed directly here, however if you would like to request a login, please see the CIS page for further details and to download an application form - 02 May 2008
NYCRIS New Appointments
A number of new appointments have been made recently within NYCRIS and also jointly in collaboration with other partner organisations across the region. Read more... - 01 May 2008
NYCRIS / NEPHO / YHPHO Joint Learning Event
A successful joint learning event was held in February 2008 between NEPHO, YHPHO and NYCRIS staff to look at the use of HES data in current projects. We hope to run further joint learning events for regional analyst staff during the year.
NYCRIS News: Cancer Registration Dataset Mandation
The recently published Cancer Reform Strategy for the NHS has made a commitment to drive forward quickly on improving the quality and timeliness of cancer registration data....
NYCRIS Annual Report 2006/07
NYCRIS published its eight annual report at the beginning of 2008....
Development of PHINE
Following discussion at the last PHINE meeting, we invited comments on the way in which the infrastructure of PHINE might be developed....
Vacancy: Health Information Analyst (HES)
The North East Public Health Observatory is continously looking for ways in which to further expand its Hospital Episode Statistics service by developing a portfolio of HES products and services that can be utilised by different organisations to support in commissioning, performance management and service redesign....
Vacancy: Health Information Analyst
We are seeking to recruit a highly experienced information specialist to help enhance capacity in cancer health intelligence in the North East region by developing effective collaborative working arrangements between the North East PHO, North of England Cancer Network and the Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service....
National Child Measurement Programme Results
This month the latest (2006/07) National Child Measurement Programme results were published by the Information Centre The report revealed that on average the North East achieved good participation rates in year R and year 6....
The Good Indicators Guide
APHO and The Institute for Innovation and Improvement have recently released 'The Good Indicators Guide, Understanding how to use and choose indicators'....
NLH User Survey 2008
This is a short survey (5 mins) that aims to gather names of people who want to help the National Library for Health develop user centered services over the coming months.
Cancer E-Atlas
A new public website - 'Cancer E-Atlas' has been launched....
Regional Health and Well-being Strategy Launch
The area’s first ever Health and Well-being Strategy aims to make people living here the healthiest in the country within a generation....
The strategy is being led by Regional Director of Public Health Dr Stephen Singleton and has been developed following a three-month consultation....
He said: "We received responses from all quarters about whether we should have an ambitious strategy – and they were overwhelmingly positive....
"We are still at an early stage and this is a first edition....
NCHOD December 2007 Compendium Release
National Centre for Health Outcomes Development are pleased to inform you of the latest Compendium release....
Notes on requesting work from the PHO/regional public health intelligence
Detailed information about policies when requesting work from the PHO/regional public health intelligence
Coming soon
A number of reports from NEPHO are due to be published shortly....
National Library for Health
NEPHO is responsible for the National Public Health Library which is now live....
Index of Deprivation 2007
Following the consultation this summer, ID2004 will be updated to ID2007....
Mental Health Observatory Brief - Ethnic Coding in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set
The Mental Health Observatory Brief entitled “Ethnic Coding in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set” is now available for download from http://www.nepho.org.uk/index.php?c=2579/...
This paper provides a brief outline and update of mental health related data and activities within the North East and at NEPHO....
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
An update on PHINE's JSNA project
NYCRIS Peer Review
The NYCRIS Peer Review Report and Remedial Action Plan has been published
REGISTER NOW FOR SUS Information Governance awareness roadshows
The Information Centre, in partnership with NHS Connecting for Health is hosting a series of roadshows across England demonstrating how information governance issues impacts on the secondary use of heath data....
Release of a new report and discussion tool on Prescribing for Diabetes in England
The numbers and costs of diabetes related prescriptions are now the highest single cost in the NHS prescribing budget with expenditure in excess of £500m....
NYCRIS Peer Review
The NYCRIS Peer Review Report and Remedial Action Plan has been published
Calling All HES Users!
As more analysts are getting direct access to HES online, the HES Strategy Unit at NEPHO will be setting up a HES user support group on the PHINE website....
PHINE Meetings
The PHINE event on October 3rd, in Durham, was another successful meeting for the network....
ISARE
NEPHO has received confirmation of funding for a European project looking at inequalities across regions of Europe....
News from NYCRIS
NYCRIS has an active research agenda with strong links to University of Leeds and other academic centres across the two regions....
Current research ongoing includes:...
- UK time cancer trends and incidence projections in the 35 – 69 age group....
- Trends In localised prostate cancer management / survival in the Northern and Yorkshire region...
- Spatial variation in prostate cancer survival in the Northern and Yorkshire region using Bayesian relative survival modelling...
- Eurocare IV – first results due to be published in Autumn 07...
- Cancer Incidence in 5 Continents – vol IX – first results due to be published Autumn 07...
- Smoking cessation impact model – supporting YHPHO and NEPHO in developing and testing a model predicting life expectancy related to changes in prevalence of smoking but not specific to cancer....
- Follow-up study on bladder cancer survival....
- Time trends in colorectal cancer in relation to deprivation in GOYH, GONE, GOEM (initially presented at YHPHO Conference in November 2004)....
- NYCRIS is the national lead registry on colorectal cancer and has compiled a merged national dataset for patients diagnosed 1998-2004 that has been linked with HES data for these patients....
National Child Measurement Programme
A new report has been published on the NEPHO website, describing a pilot research study on the National Child Measurement Programme in the North East....
Alcohol Information Resources
Cases of alcohol related harm are attracting a high profile under the political spotlight and a number of reports have been recently published in this area....
Population Working Group Update
The population working group of PHINE last met on 26th September....
Welcome to the most friendly region in England
A tourist guide book has named the North-East as one of the top 30 must-see destinations in the world and gives examples such as the Great North Run, Stockton International Riverside Festival and Hartlepool quayside as examples.
News from NYCRIS
NYCRIS 2007/08 Business Plan and Work Programme
The NYCRIS Steering Group chaired by John Wilkinson met in September to consider the 2007/08 NYCRIS Business Plan and Work Programme of Cancer Intelligence Activity and Outputs....
SHAPE
Shape (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation) is a web-enabled toolkit, which is being designed to inform and support the strategic planning of services and physical assets across a whole health economy....
Obesity: An Update
In light of the public health priority around obesity, NEPHO has appointed a full time obesity lead and has established an extensive ongoing programme of work utilising existing datasets and developing new research projects to bridge current gaps within the evidence base....
Public Health Intelligence Module
There is still time to join the public health intelligence module on Thursday afternoons starting 4th October at Durham University Queens Campus....
Europe
In August the EU commission accepted proposals form a group across 5 European Countries for the next phase in the development of indicators at a regional level....
Commissioning
Senior staff are meeting the Directors of Commissioning to discuss how the PHO and HES unit can support the process....
National Library
NEPHO is responsible for the development of the new National Library for Public Health....
Group share self harm experiences
A group of people in Northumberland have got together to help each other through the problems of self harming....
Self harm is an expression of personal distress, usually made in private....
"Sports candy" for kids at The Big Bounce
Gateshead Council's community health team joined children's TV character Sportacus at The Big Bounce last weekend....
About 1,200 people attended the sports and healthy lifestyle event held at the town's International Stadium....
Youngsters and their families enjoyed a range of healthy activities including football, basketball, trampolining and gymnastics....
The health team was on hand to promote 5 A DAY messages with a range of information on the benefits of eating fruit and vegetables, or as Sportacus calls it 'sports candy'....
Children and parents queued up at their stand to find out more via puzzles, quizzes and sticker books....
New funding to tackle depression
People living in Hartlepool and Stockton who suffer from depression will now be able to benefit from improved access to treatments thanks to a successful funding bid from Hartlepool and North Tees Primary Care Trusts....
Both towns have some of the highest levels of stress-related illness in the country, particularly problems of depression and anxiety....
Social marketing conference
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