Health Information Partnerships: benefits for all

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Health Information Partnerships benefits for all

• Sarah Greening
• Health Information Co-ordinator
• West Midlands

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Why?

• Our health, our care, our say
• Better information, better choices, better health
• Choosing Health
• Public Libraries Impact Measures
• For the ultimate benefit of the public

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Our health, our care, our say

• Health information to those who need it, when
  they need it and in the format they need it
• Promoting local projects healthy living
  services will be available in the community
• Bringing health care into the local community and
  linking it more closely with social care

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Better information, better choices, better health

• People should
• have access to high quality, comprehensive
  information delivered in the way they want
• receive as much support as they want to access
  and understand information
• be empowered to ask questions and be involved as
  far as they want in making decisions about their
  health
• Have access to relevant information in order to
  make choices about their healthcare

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Better info, better choices

• Make information more effective and more readily
  available in their daily lives
• Strengthen partnerships between sectors
• Provide community based support for people
  accessing information
• Make health information more widely available in
  local communities
• The NHS should work with partners to increase the
  frequency and access of healthy living and local
  service information

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Choosing Health

• Effective partnerships are required to help
  individuals make healthy choices
• The key to success will be effective local
  partnerships led by local government and the NHS
  working to a common purpose reflecting local
  need.. Success will be a narrowing of health
  inequalities and improvement in health
  outcomes
• Choosing Health Executive Summary

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Choosing Health

• Reduce the number of people who smoke
• Reduce obesity / increase exercise
• Support sensible drinking
• Improve sexual health
• Improve mental health and wellbeing
• Tackle health inequalities

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New Pharmacy Contracts

• All pharmacies must be able to signpost customers
  to health information www.equip.nhs.uk
• All pharmacies will host 6 health campaigns each
  year co-ordinated centrally by Public Health
  and Health Promotion staff

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Choose Book

• Will enable patients to choose a convenient
  place, date and time for their initial hospital
  appointment
• Information on these hospitals will be provided
  to GP staff and patients at www.nhs.uk to enable
  them to choose
• Patients can either book their appointment
  electronically the GP surgery or they can call a
  telephone booking service or use the internet in
  the future
• Patient Choice Advisors
• In Public libraries in some areas
• This is a big step in giving patients greater
  involvement in the choices and decisions about
  their treatment

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Public Libraries Impact Measures

• 5 Shared Priorities of which one is
• Promoting healthier communities
• Health-related book stock
• Bibliotherapy activities
• Diet, health or healthy living promotions
• Health advice activities within the library
• Partnership work with Primary Care Trusts, Sports
  departments etc.
• Provision of health stock in other languages to
  reflect community need

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West Midlands Networks

• West Midlands South
• each county has a multi-sector partnership
• Staffordshire Shropshire
• Shropshire - SHAIR
• North Staffs Health Information Forum
• South Staffs Health Information Network
• Birmingham Black Country Health Information
  Network

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Aim

• To initiate networking, partnership working and
  projects which will improve the accessibility,
  quality, uptake and relevance of health
  information for the public in South Staffordshire
  

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Objectives

• To bring together a range of people from all
  sectors with an interest in health information
  for patients, service users, carers and the
  public.
• To identify what is already happening in area in
  order to avoid duplication of effort or resources
• To focus on health priorities relevant to each
  area and in particular to help address
  inequalities.
• To support fellow information providers
• To tackle common goals and targets together

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Ideas for action

• Health Information Week July 3rd-8th 2006
• Mapping existing resources and projects to
  prevent duplication
• Pharmacy campaigns also in public libraries
• Putting local communities first using public
  library locations and mobile units
• Information prescriptions
• INSPIRE
• Choose and book
• Local priorities

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Health Information Week

• Why?
• Improving access to health information for the
  public
• Partnership working
• Getting to know your local fellow information
  providers
• Sharing resources and knowledge

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Health Information Week 2005

• Some examples from last year
• Birmingham Black Country many larger
  libraries held health fairs with manned stands
  including complementary health clinics
• Wolverhampton - displays at supermarkets,
  shopping centres, the racecourse, swimming baths,
  leisure centres etc. competitions on local
  radio etc.
• Worcestershire event opened by MP, used
  Comput_at_bus to target rural areas
• Warwickshire Health fair with large number of
  displays and also health visitors for blood checks

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Health Information Week 2005

• Some more examples from last year
• Public libraries large number of poster/leaflet
  displays
• Health Libraries Week as well health
  information for NHS staff promoting the
  libraries and resources
• Tutorials on health info websites, offered free
  fruit, ran competitions
• Librarians from different sectors worked together
  on organisation and helped each other manning
  stands, website tutorials, gathering resources
  etc.
• Voluntary sector resource centres held their own
  promotions or contributed to the public library
  events

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Health Information Week 3rd 8th July 2006

• Who involved?
• Librarians from each sector, PALS, Health
  promotion, Public health, voluntary organisations
  and resource centres
• How?
• Contacting the staff groups, introducing main
  contacts in each area to each other, facilitating
  partnership working.

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Health Information Week

• Help available centrally
• HIW Plan (including suggestions for themes)
• Ideas and suggestions
• Recommended websites list
• Recommended leaflets list
• Press release
• A4 Posters
• Diary of events let me know your events
• Assistance with meeting other peers in your area

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Health Information Week

• More information on events and all documentation
  is available on
• www.equip.nhs.uk
• An NHS website of quality-checked health
  and social care information and support for the
  West Midlands public