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  1. New eating disorders guidelines launched for educational professionals

    To coincide with Eating Disorders Awareness Week (2-8 March 2020), Healthy London Partnership, has launched guidelines – in partnership with Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity – for educational professionals about helping children and young people with eating disorders to seek treatment. These guidelines are being dispatched to schools and colleges across London to increase […]

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  2. Guidelines for primary care professionals on referring children and young people with eating disorders endorsed

    In partnership with Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity, we have produced guidelines for primary care professionals about treating children and young people with eating disorders. Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions. There are many common eating disorders and it is vital that children and young people with eating disorders and their families and […]

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  3. HLP’s London Health Podcast launch edition tackles homeless health and hospital discharge

    The Healthy London Partnership launches the ‘The London Health Podcast’ today, with homeless health and challenges around NHS hospital discharge the theme for this month’s episode. Length of stay for homeless people are around three times longer and around 70% of rough sleepers are discharged back onto the street, further damaging their health and costing the […]

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  4. Peer support pack for Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams

    The peer support pack was co-produced with the EIP Clinical Reference Group (CRG) Lived Experience representative and funded through Health Education England as part of developing new roles initiative. The EIP CRG were keen to explore paid peer support role in their teams and agreed that the development of the package would ensure equity across […]

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  5. Citywide movement for mental health is helping Londoners to thrive

    More than 200,000 people took part in events and activities to improve mental health and tackle inequalities as part of the Thrive LDN movement in 2019. More than 35,000 Londoners have supported a citywide Zero Suicide London campaign by taking free, online suicide prevention training. 1,200 people participated in film-based outreach and events for Londoners […]

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  6. The health and care vision for London

    We have a shared ambition to make London the world’s healthiest global city, and the best global city in which to receive health and care services. We know we need to work together across public services and wider society, both to make the most of opportunities for good health and tackle issues that cause poor […]

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  7. Hillingdon’s children’s asthma team approach the busiest time of the year – Blog

    Alison Summerfield, Nurse Consultant – Paediatric Respiratory & Allergy We now have sixty-nine schools (both state and independent) within the borough that are certified as “Asthma Friendly”. Asthma friendly status is awarded annually to those schools who have  achieved our set criteria based on the London Asthma Standards. Named ‘Asthma Champion’ – individual responsible for […]

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  8. Emergency Asthma Inhalers in Schools

    by Richard Chavasse, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician Children and young people (CYP) spend a significant proportion of their time at school. The school environment exposes children and young people to a number of common triggers for asthma, it is therefore important that they have their reliever treatment on hand in case of an emergency. It is […]

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  9. Workforce diversity in health and social care: a London masterclass

    On October 4th, Healthy London Partnership on behalf of the London Workforce Board will be hosting a masterclass on Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. With the introduction of the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), the release of the Interim Peoples Plan as well as a recent roundtable discussion, convened by Skills for Care, momentum of […]

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