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Volume 3, Number 7 A summary of notifiable diseases of public health significance reported in East of England during the previous month, plus brief up dates on national surveillance and control issues.

Minutes from 5th 2012 health and wellbeing theme group meeting on 26 July 2010. Next meeting is on 19 October 2010 (venue likely to be Eastbrook, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge).

Presentations from 5th 2012 health and wellbeing theme group meeting on 26 July 2010: * Inspire Mark update and overview (Joseph Ballard, Inspire Programmer) * Cultural Olympiad update and overview (Joseph Ballard, on behalf of Liz Hughes, Creative Programmer)

A summary of the points discussed within each of the five workshops on the 14th July 2010 East on the Move 2 regional physical activity conference. The five workshops were: * The 2012 Games: how ‘Active Celebration’ can help you to get people in your area moving (led by: Professor Mike Weed) * Primary Care: selling the value of opportunistic physical activity interventions (led by: Dr Mike Knapton) * Sport and physical activity: practical solutions to sustaining activity (led by: Adam Rigarlsford) * Planning and transport: place making for an active community (led by: Neil Blackshaw) * "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink say no more!”: a practical working session on how to get the most out of your behavioural interventions (led by: Chris Holmes)

A newsletter covering the "East on the Move 2" regional physical activity conference on 14th July 2010. It includes information, pictures and evaluation from the day as well as reminders of key dates and resources relating to physical activity.

This report contains results from an annual survey of secondary school pupils in years 7 to 11 (mostly aged 11 to 15). 7,674 pupils in 247 schools in England completed questionnaires in the autumn term of 2009.

This annual statistical bulletin examines the extent and trends in illicit drug use among a nationally representative sample of 16 to 59 year olds (including a breakdown for young people aged 16 to 24) resident in households in England and Wales. The bulletin is based on results from the 2009/10 British Crime Survey (BCS); including comparisons with 2008/09 and trends since 1996. This bulletin updates previously published findings on the characteristics and lifestyle factors associated with adults who have taken any illicit drugs, as well as presenting trends in drug use by key demographic factors since 1996. Updates of the extent and trends in polydrug use are also published here, as are preliminary findings from new BCS measures of drug use.

Agenda for 5th 2012 health and wellbeing theme group meeting on 26 July 2010.

The workshop slides from the 2nd annual regional physical activity event held at the Radisson Blu Hotel Stansted Airport on 14th July 2010 are attached in the zip file below. Workshops were aiming to be interactive and were led on the following topics by experts in each field: * Neil Blackshaw - Planning and transport: place making for an active community; * Professor Mike Weed - The 2012 Games: how Active Celebration! can help you to get people in your area moving; * Dr Mike Knapton - Primary Care: selling the value of opportunistic physical activity interventions; * Chris Holmes - Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, day no more: a practical working session on how to get the most out of your behavioural interventions; * Adam Rigarlsford - Sport and physical activity: practical solutions to sustaining activity. Workshop summaries will be added by 28th July.

A full set of slides from the 2nd annual regional physical activity event held at the Radisson Blu Hotel Stansted Airport on 14th July 2010. All plenary presentations can be found in the zip file below. Speakers included: * Dr Paul Cosford who put health and physical activity into perspective for the region in the context of the current economic and political climate; * Martin Corck who provided an overview of the progress of the Alliance since its inception at the 1st annual regional conference 15 months ago; * Chris Holmes who gave a lively insight into human behaviour; * Professor Mike Weed who launched Active Celebration! for the East of England; and * Dr Mike Knapton who provided an interesting insight into both primary care and charity work of the British Heart Foundation in relation to understanding behaviour. Workshop presentation slides and worshop summaries are attached separately.

The Coalition: Our Programme for Government document was published in May 2010, and provides an overview of the key policies that the new Coalition Government will take forward. The programme is set around inspirations of Freedom, Fairness and Responsibility and aim to deliver a radical, reforming government that will develop a stronger society, a smaller state and power and responsibility in the hand of every citizen, thereby creating a Big Society matched by big Citizens. In understanding the Coalition Government programmes, partners need to be mindful of the potential implication for existing Sport and Physical Activity programmes, for which the Government may wish to steer in another direction or may not be their priority. This document was prepared by the West Midlands and shared with the regions to look at possible impacts on physical activity agendas and links to current work programmes of The Coalition Programme.

Volume 3, Number 6 A summary of notifiable diseases of public health significance reported in East of England during the previous month, plus brief up dates on national surveillance and control issues.

In 2009, the United Nations Member States decided to make further and decisive progress, within a decade, in controlling illicit drug supply and demand. Many illicit drug markets have reached global dimensions and require control strategies on a comparable scale. In that context, there is a need to better understand these transnational markets and the manner in which they operate. This year's World Drug Report is a contribution towards that objective. It opens with an analytical discussion of three key transnational drug markets: the markets for heroin, cocaine and amphetamine-type stimulants. The market discussion is followed by a presentation of statistical trends for all major drug categories. The latest information on drug production, seizures and consumption is presented. Finally, there is a discussion on the relationship between drug trafficking.

Current and former members of staff from all parts of erpho were shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of Philip Mills on 9th June 2010. Philip, who was 61, was an erpho Associate and had worked at erpho for many years.

A toolkit developed by the West Midlands that could be adopted in the East of England to develop 2012 related activity across this year and next year. The West Midlands region has developed a toolkit to help organisations develop a Community Games, which aims to bring communities together, giving them the confidence and skills to organise activities, leaving a legacy far beyond the end of 2012. Community Games provide a great opportunity to bring your community together to take part in sporting and cultural activities inspired by, and in celebration of, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. By providing opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to try something new, teach others or show to the rest of their communities their talents, Community Games will provide people the opportunity to have their own Olympic or Paralympic moment. Supported by the Legacy Trust UK and part of the West Midlands Culture Programme for London 2012, the Community Games programme offers lots of information to help get programmes started through a toolkit, which can be downloaded from the link below.

A framework and toolkit for implementing NICE-recommended treatment interventions.

A review of 10 years of public health intelligence delivered by public health observatories and a look ahead to future opportunities and challenges

Quarterly NDTMS new starter training Powerpoint presentation as presented by the MUSE team on 26th May 2010 at the institute of public health.

Volume 3, Number 5 A summary of notifiable diseases of public health significance reported in East of England during the previous month, plus brief up dates on national surveillance and control issues.

This statistical report presents a range of information on alcohol use and misuse which are drawn together from a variety of published sources and includes additional analysis undertaken by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care. The report aims to present a broad picture of health issues relating to alcohol in England and covers topics such as drinking habits and behaviours among adults (aged 16 and over) and school children (aged 11 to 15), drinking-related mortality, affordability of alcohol and alcohol-related costs.

Website for Bedfordshire Children's Trust

Website for Essex Children's Trust

Website for Thurrock Children's Trust

Website for Suffolk Children's Trust

Website for Norfolk Children's Trust

Website for Cambridgeshire Children's Trust

Website for Luton Children's Trust

OPCS and HRG codes for the 49 surgical procedures described and analysed in Commissioning brief No. 2 from erpho.

These graphs show the source data for Commissioning brief No.2 from erpho. See tab “all procedures bar charts”.

Walk England are working on behalf of the Department of Health to encourage more people to walk to improve their health. The project is closely linked with the Change4Life initiative and called the Walk4Life project (formerly known as Active Challenge Routes). The project aims to identify, map and waymark 2,012 one mile long routes by 2012. The routes will be promoted on a new interactive website, aimed at the public, where people can find routes, upload new routes, and record their fitness. The zip file attached includes all updates from Walk England: * Introduction to the project * Update 1 - 29th April 2010 * Update 2 - 24th May 2010

Website for Hertfordshire Children's Trust

Website for Peterborough Children's Trust

Young people’s specialist drug and alcohol treatment is ‘at a crossroads’. There are different directions it could take, particularly at a time of political change, high octane public debate and tight public finances. Against this background, DrugScope embarked on a consultation process in 2009 with people working in young people’s treatment.

This is the second in a new series of Commissioning briefs from erpho, designed to support PCTs and practice‐based commissioners to become World Class Commissioners. NOTE: Additional resources to support this publication (source data in graphs, and procedure codes) are at Quick Link 21138.

A survey carried out by national charities Parentline Plus and Living Streets as part of national Walk to School Week has found that parents disproportionately fear their children being abducted or killed in a road accident over the more likely threat to their health from childhood obesity. Although there is about a one in a million chance of a child being killed by a stranger, the risk of severe health issues and early mortality as a result of the lack of physical activity is considerably greater at one in three. Parentline Plus and Living Streets are calling for a greater understanding of a child’s health needs as almost half of parents surveyed underestimated how much physical activity their child needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The Government recommends that children should have seven hours of physical activity per week, but in fact 68% of boys and 76% of girls are not currently meeting this recommendation. The attached zip file includes a number of documents: * 18 May 2010 press release - Parents fear unlikely abduction over the more likely health threat of inactive lifestyles. * Supporting briefing paper - Is it safe to let our children walk to school? * Previously published document 'Backseat Children-how our car dependent culture compromises safety on our streets' which calls on parents and primary school children to take part in Walk to School week and other walking initiatives. * The document 'Unfit for Purpose: How Car Use Fuels Climate Change and Obesity' assesses the contribution of growth in car travel to the decline in human energy expenditure and consequently to the parallel growth in obesity in the UK; and at the same time calculates the contribution to climate change through carbon dioxide emissions as car travel has replaced walking. Through this exploration the study has sought to demonstrate that two of the main challenges facing the UK in health and environment have common origins and some common solutions.

This evidence-based set of case studies and strategies provides the blueprint for how between now and July 2012 we can capture people’s imagination and inspire them to get involved. It has been commissioned jointly by the Physical Activity Coordinators in the Department of Health offices across England, and developed by the Centre for Sport, Physical Education & Activity Research (SPEAR) at Canterbury Christ Church University. Active Celebration answers several questions: • How can the Games inspire us to be more active? • How can we give most support to those with most to gain i.e. the least active? • What will work best and who needs to be involved? For commissioners, it offers an evidence-based guide to which schemes are likely to work in which settings, and what outcomes you can expect. For coordinators, it provides a detailed picture of the possibilities for legacy work so you can see which ones match most closely with your local priorities. For delivery partners, it’s a practical ‘how to’ guide covering design and implementation, with a host of useful contacts. For anyone who has a responsibility for legacy work at local, regional or national level, and wherever you are in the country, Active Celebration will stimulate discussion, aid decision making, generate ideas and positively challenge partnerships at all levels to maximise the opportunities before us.

NDTMS was introduced on 1 April 2001; however, formal collection of structured alcohol treatment data was not incorporated into NDTMS until 1st April 2008. From this date, the Department of Health commissioned the National Treatment Agency (NTA) to collect and analyse alcohol treatment data on its behalf. This subset of the NDTMS Data Set consists of 28 data items and is known as the National Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NATMS) Data Set. NATMS forms a key part of The Department’s Alcohol Improvement Programme and contributes, in part, to the delivery of the Government’s PSA Delivery Agreement 25 (see http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/pbr_csr07_psa25.pdf).

Volume 3, Number 4 A summary of notifiable diseases of public health significance reported in East of England during the previous month, plus brief up dates on national surveillance and control issues.

This presentation highlights the following: * What is open weekend? * How we got there - 2008 and 2009 * Where we are now * Lessons learned * 2010 activities and how to join in * Marketing and PR Open weekend 2010 is on the 23 - 25 July and the theme is to set a challenge that the public can particpate in, whether that be to try something new or take an interest to the next level. An ideal opportunity to use the festival effect and demonstration effect and (re)introduce people to physical activity!

Erpho is introducing a data request form for all ad hoc requests. Ad hoc requests make up a significant proportion of erpho’s workload, especially those relating to the HES dataset.