News
News items are drawn from the working groups on the PHINE site.
Note on Information & Intelligence workforce developments
One the four strands of national information and intelligence strategy is workforce capacity and capability....
National Knowledge Week - HIV/AIDS: Behaviour change in high-risk populations
The National Library for Public Health Sexual Health National Knowledge Week 2008 focusses on HIV/AIDS interventions and behaviour change in high-risk populations.
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.