Young people generate ideas for tackling childhood obesity More than 60 young people from across London attended our Healthy London Hackathon at City Hall on Saturday 28 January. The 14-17 year-olds discussed how London makes it harder to be healthy, brainstormed ideas for making London healthier for children and young people, and then worked in […]
Project Excellence Award for Best Use of Cloud Services” Patient Relationship Manager (NHS 111) Healthy London Partnership is excited and proud to announce our Patient Relationship Manager, the cloud-based system designed to improve patients’ experience of NHS 111, has won the prestigious UK IT Industry Award for the best use of cloud services. Patient Relationship Manager (PRM) […]
Healthy London Partnership is delighted to announce London’s NHS 111 and its Patient Relationship Manager, the cloud-based system designed to improve patients’ experience of NHS 111, has taken a silver award at the European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards 2016 this week. It was nominated for innovation, technology and effectiveness in the most effective improvement strategy category. This is […]
During the October half term we took our Great Weight Debate roadshow across London. Watch a snapshot of the week and some of the ideas people had for helping children in London lead healthier lives. We heard from hundreds of Londoners including parents, children, young people, grandparents, carers and teachers. Have your say by completing […]
London has a big problem. Levels of childhood obesity in London are unacceptably high. This can have serious complications later in life such as diabetes, heart disease & higher risk of premature mortality, shockingly however we are now seeing such problems in young adults too. We cannot continue to have almost one-in-four children being overweight […]
An obesity pandemic, with London at the top of the obesity league table of global cities The world is hitting the peak of a truly global epidemic of obesity … and that makes it a pandemic. Most people don’t think of it that way, because unlike swine flu, the obesity pandemic is taking years to […]
We’re not great at blowing our own trumpets in the public sector, so I’m going to use this blog as an opportunity to blow others’ and tell you about some really brilliant work that is going on in Haringey, much of it led by my colleagues in public health. Haringey is not unique in its […]
London children tell us what being healthy means to them FILM: As part of the Great Weight Debate we asked London children what being healthy means to them
FILM: As part of the Great Weight Debate we asked London children whether they found it easy to be health in the capital
FILM: As part of the Great Weight Debate we asked children in London about their favourite foods