Faculty Annual Conference - Making Public Health Work
Registration for the 2007 Annual Conference (26-28 June, Eastbourne) is now open.
This year’s Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference presents a wide-ranging and engaging programme for public health specialists. Besides the unparalleled networking opportunities and intensive learning sessions, the conference will explore the big issues across the breadth of public health – from alcohol and prisons to social marketing and sustainability.
Main speakers include: Sir Liam Donaldson (Chief Medical Officer for England),
Mr David Nicholson (Chief Executive of the NHS), Sir David King (Chief Scientific Adviser), Ms Caroline Flint (Minister for Public Health for England) and Sir Michael Marmot (University College London).
To view the programme and to register for this year's new and exciting conference, go to www.publichealthconferences.org.uk.
Consultation on Guidance for Workplace Assessors
Following the acceptance of the Faculty's new syllabus by PMETB, work is underway on guidance for workplace assessors who will start using the new syllabus in August 2007.
The Guidance for Workplace Assessors aims to help assessors judge whether trainees have achieved the learning objectives set out in the Faculty's syllabus.
This guidance is in draft format, and all Faculty members are invited to comment on the first draft by the 15 June 2007. Please email your comments to comments@fph.org.uk.
Download the draft Guidance for Workplace Assessors [Word]
Continuing Professional Development (CPD):
2006 Returns
Confirmation will be sent to all Faculty members who have submitted a satisfactory CPD return for 2006 (i.e. a minimum of 50 credits) in late July. Members who submitted their return online should have received an on-screen acknowledgement, but formal confirmation will also be sent to them.
Those members who applied for an exemption from participating in the Faculty's CPD scheme are all being contacted individually by letter or email.
Owing to the changes to the CPD process , we have received far more queries than normal. If you have written to or emailed the Faculty office about your 2006 CPD return or an exemption and have not yet had a reply, please be assured that you have not been overlooked and that we will respond to you as soon as we are able to
CPD: Audit of 2006 Returns
A random sample of 10% of all Faculty members who submitted a CPD return for 2006 has been taken. Those selected have been asked to supply their audit documentation by 31 May 2007. This deadline is final and cannot be extended. Any members audited in the past two years have been excluded from the audit.
In the first week of June the audit records will be sent to one of the Faculty's local CPD co-ordinators who will undertake the audit and provide a brief report to the CPD Director. The CPD director will present the anonymised results of the audit to the Standards Committee in July and then later to the Faculty Board. Following this, the results will be posted on the Faculty's website. Later in the year the CPD Director will also provide individual feedback to those audited.
SAC Annual Public Health Conference - Call for Abstracts
The theme of this year's Scottish Affairs Committee (SAC) conference, '21st Century Trends – Threats and Opportunities for Public Health', recognises the importance of developments that are taking place with climate change, globalisation, demographic and social change, service provision, communications and new technology and how these changes affect public health.
The conference provides the opportunity for those involved in protecting and improving health in Scotland to meet learn, debate and address some of the key health challenges in Scotland.
Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations (or both). Deadline for receipt of Abstracts is Tuesday 26 June 2007. For further details, please see: www.publichealthconferences.org.uk/scotland_2007
Representative for Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine
The Faculty has been invited to nominate a representative to the Advisory Board of the new Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine (FSEM). The Advisory Board will meet twice a year with the FSEM Officers to advise them in the development of this new specialty.
Interested members should be working at a senior/specialist level and have an interest in sport/exercise medicine. If you would like to be nominated as Faculty representative please send a one-page CV and short personal statement on why you wish to be appointed to: lindseystewart@fph.org.uk by Friday 8 June 2007.
Health impacts of Climate Change in the UK
In early May the Department of Health published a draft report for comment entitled Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK. Members may be interested in this new draft which supersedes the 2001/2002 report by the same name. Comments on the report will be accepted until 15 June 2007. Further details on how to comment, as well as a copy of the report are available on the DH website.
Hypertension and Obesity Toolkit Questionnaires
Thank you to everyone who responded to each of these questionnaires.
The winners of the prize draw are Roger Walker from Cardiff and Maeve Kinsey from Kent who each win £100 of book tokens. Congratulations!
Keep an eye out for the results of the questionnaires which will be published soon.
‘Put the Ooo back into food'
In the build-up to this year's British Food Fortnight (22 Sept–7 Oct), all schools in the UK are being sent information on how to incorporate cookery and food-related activities into their curriculum. In addition, 9,000 chefs have been invited to work with schools during the national event to teach children how to cook.
Your local school is, therefore, likely to be planning activities during British Food Fortnight and would welcome any help you are able to provide. All the information and resources you need to take part are available on www.britishfoodfortnight.co.uk or email: info@britishfoodfortnight.co.uk.
HTA public health newsletter
The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme - part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - has published its latest Themed Update newsletter, Promoting public health, which features research commissioned by the HTA programme in the area of public health, as well as news and views from opinion leaders in the field.
Promoting public health can be ordered in print format by emailing hta@hta.ac.uk or downloaded from the HTA website [pdf].
Events
Only Faculty sponsored events are listed below, however a list of public health events across the UK is available at www.publichealthconferences.org.uk/all_events.php. If you would like to list your event, please email news@fph.org.uk.
Making Public Health Work
Faculty's Annual Conference
26-28 June 2007
Eastbourne
For further information: www.publichealthconferences.org.uk/annual
Patient Safety Research - Shaping the European agenda
24-26 September 2007
Porto, Portugal
UK Faculty of Public Health, University College London, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety
For further information see www.patientsafetyresearch.org
21st Century Trends – Threats and Opportunities for Public Health
15-16 November 2007
Airth Castle Hotel, Falkirk in Forth Valley
Faculty of Public Health Scottish Affairs Committee
For further information see: www.publichealthconferences.org.uk/scotland_2007