Developing consistent career pathways for Physician Associates to support staff retention across London. What is a Physician Associate? Physician Associates are new healthcare professionals who, while not a doctor, work to the medical model, with the attitudes, skills and knowledge base to deliver holistic care and treatment within the general medical and/or general practice team […]
This page offers tools and advice on ways to involve your community pharmacist in improving the care of children and young people Bexley CCG, with the support of Healthy London Partnership and Bexley’s Local Pharmaceutical Committee, have been running a project to improve children and young people’s control and management of their asthma through the use […]
A presentation to the Royal College of Nursing and Royal Pharmaceutical Society about why and how we need to transform London’s asthma care for children and young people. Background to Healthy London Partnership transformation programme Why is a collaborative approach to transforming asthma services needed? What we have done so far – asthma standards for […]
Ensuring that there is sufficient high quality staff to deliver health and social care services is particularly challenging, given London’s professionally and personally demanding environment. This affects all professions, but particularly lower paid staff. Supporting resources The Finding and Keeping Workers website, available through Skills for Care, will support you with your recruitment and retention challenges, […]
Findings from stage 1 of the Great Weight Debate in early 2016. Stage 1 aimed to gauge public perceptions of childhood obesity in London and identify some initial ideas for change from Londoners. Report includes recommendations from Londoners on how to galvanise the public to support change. Downloads
Summary findings from stage 1 of the Great Weight Debate in early 2016. Stage 1 aimed to gauge public perceptions of childhood obesity in London and identify some initial ideas for change from Londoners. Report includes recommendations from Londoners on how to galvanise the public to support change. Downloads
1. What is the Great Weight Debate? The Great Weight Debate is a multi-stage conversation to engage and involve Londoners in the health of their children, and to galvanise social action and support to tackle childhood obesity. In Stage 1, professionals and members of the public were engaged – key findings from this stage are […]
This section of the toolkit offers resources to support group consultations for children and young people. It includes three case studies describing the results of group consultations in different clinical settings. Group consultations present a completely new approach to consultations for children and young people. They involve one to one clinical consultations in a supportive […]
This section of the toolkit provides information and links on a number of additional early intervention programmes that have a close link to emotional wellbeing and mental health. Each of these interventions has received a rating from the Early Intervention Foundation. The rating is based on a number of factors. The Evidence Rating gives information […]
Islington trauma informed practices in schools (iTIPS) Five primary schools and the pupil referral unit started work on iTIPS in 2017/18; a further six primary and two secondary schools started work on this in September 2018. Staff in schools are provided with 13 hours of training that assists them in understanding the impact of complex […]