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starts today: making steps towards a healthier lifestyle

starts today: making steps towards a healthier lifestyle. The Public Health Team. Rachel Swindells Public Health Facilitator. Nicola Worrall Health Education Practitioner . Anne-Marie Kaliszczak Stop Smoking Specialist Advisor. Volunteer Health Mentors.

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starts today: making steps towards a healthier lifestyle

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  1. starts today: making steps towards a healthier lifestyle

  2. The Public Health Team Rachel Swindells Public Health Facilitator Nicola Worrall Health Education Practitioner Anne-Marie Kaliszczak Stop Smoking Specialist Advisor

  3. Volunteer Health Mentors

  4. Why… ‘public health’ in secondary care?

  5. 4500 OF OUR ADMISSIONS PER YEAR ARE CAUSED BY SMOKING Data source: Blackpool Public Health Intelligence Team

  6. 200 Babies/children are admitted to our hospital per year due to secondhand smoke Data source: Blackpool Public Health Intelligence Team

  7. 4000 OF OUR ADMISSIONS ARE ALCOHOL-RELATED Data source: Blackpool Public Health Intelligence Team 2010

  8. 1014 OF OUR ADMISSIONS PER YEAR ARE DUE TO OBESITY Data source: Blackpool Public Health Intelligence Team 2009

  9. The Teachable Moment… PEOPLE ARE OFTEN MORE RECEPTIVE TO HEALTH ADVICE WHILST IN HOSPITAL ADVICE SHORTLY AFTER ADMISSION CAN TAP INTO A PERIOD OF HEIGHTENED MOTIVATION

  10. Public Health Strategy Tobacco Alcohol Obesity

  11. Steps towards a healthier lifestyle • Tobacco • Training for staff • Improving smokefree compliance • Increasing referrals to the Stop Smoking Service • Support for people whilst they are at our smokefree hospitals • Tobacco Control Conference • Alcohol • Training for staff • Assessment Form • Working with the Alcohol Liaison Nurses to improve patient care • Referral pathway from the hospital into the community • Obesity • Ensuring food provision in canteen offers healthy choices • Obesity care pathway

  12. Healthy workforce

  13. A Better Tomorrow Campaign

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