• Child and Maternal Health Observatory
  Presentation by Anna Sewell, Local ChiMat Specialist West Midlands

• Developing an Asset Based Approach to Community Commissioning
  Presentation by Trevor Hopkins & Jayne Norwood of Asset Based Consulting
• Agenda

• Community Asset Based Approaches
  Presentation by Trevor Hopkins & Jayne Norwood of Asset Based Consulting
• Results from the Event
  Five photgraphs of results from the event
• Appreciative Conversation – Involving communities as equal partners to improve health & well-being
  Handout from the event
• Asset Mapping
  Handout from the event
• Planning and designing ‘Open Space’
  Handout from the event
• User and Professional Roles in the Design and Delivery of Services
  Co-production handout
• Agenda

• Health Impact Assessment Stages
  Presentation by Dr Irfan Ghani, Shropshire County PCT
• An Introduction to Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
  Presentation by Sue Wright, HIA Gateway Content Manager

• Housing & Health in Tamworth – The Story So Far...
  Presentation by Jonathan Topham, District PH Lead, South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust and Steve Pointon, Housing Strategy Manager, Tamworth Borough Council
• Partners in Public Health - Private Sector Housing
  Presentation by Paul Southon, Public Health Manager, Sandwell PCT and Tom Jones, Home Improvement Manager, Sandwell MBC
• Adaptions Partnership Service Review 2011 - Summary of findings
  Workshop presentation
• Greetings From Shifnal
  Presentation from the Shifnal Living History Reminiscence Project

Second of a two part learning opportunity, the first of which took place on Tuesday, 21st February 2012.

• ‘Marmot’ and life stage interventions
  Presentation by Dr Sarah Aitken, Interim Director of Public Health, NHS Herefordshire/Herefordshire Council
• Health, Work and Well being
  Presentation by Julie Horsley, West Midlands Health, Work & Well being Coordinator, Department of Health
• How to engage in key Strategic fora: when people think you’re a junior partner
  Presentation by Jim McManus, Joint Director of Public Health, Birmingham City Council
• Intervening to improve Public Health
  Presentation by David Elliott, Public Health Manager, Department of Health West Midlands
• Partners in Public Health - Private Sector Housing
  Presentation by Sarah Knight, Public Health, Sandwell PCT and Tom Jones, Home Improvement Manager, Sandwell MBC
• Public Health and Wellbeing – a District Council Approach
  Presentation by John Fraser, Health and Housing Services Group Manager, Stafford Borough Council
• Regulation and Public Health
  Presentation by Sajeela Naseer, Head of Birmingham Trading Standards and BCL, Regulation and Enforcement Division, Birmingham City Council
• Truckers Tucker - Health by Stealth
  Presentation by Anita Fletcher, Worcestershire Regulatory Services
• Event Evaluation

• Welcome and introductions
  Presentation by Ginder Narle, Learning For Public Health Manager
• Coventry Asset Based Approaches - Putting communities at the heart!
  Presentation by Kate O’Hara, Wellbeing Project Manager, NHS Coventry
• Soho/Victoria Friends and Neighbours - Sandwell
  A Community Asset Approach
  Presentation by Marianne Monro, Community Development Officer, Soho/Victoria Friends and Neighbours
• User and Professional Roles in the Design and Delivery of Services
  Co-production handout

• Competence and Public Health
  An overview by Tony Lewis, Head of Education and Professional Standards, CIEH
• What Public Health brings to the table for Regulatory Services
  Presentation by Jim McManus, Joint Director of Public Health, Birmingham City Council
• Tackling the wider determinants of Health
  Presentation by Dr Mike Grady, Principal Advisor, Marmot Review Team, Institute of Health Equity, UCL
• Healthy Lives, Healthy People
  Presentation by David Elliott, Public Health Manager, Department of Health West Midlands
• LARS Contribution to Public Health
  Presentation by Steve Jorden, Head of Worcestershire Regulatory Services
• Event Evaluation

• Agenda
• Healthy Lives, Healthy People the new public health system
  Presentation by Dr Rashmi Shukla, RDPH WM/PHE Transition Team
• Health Protection Services in 2012
  Presentation by Dr Sue Ibbotson, Regional Director, HPA West Midlands
• Collaborative Working: opportunities and challenges in Public Health England
  Presentation by Dr Gill Lawrence, Director, West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit and West Midlands Public Health Observatory
• Changing Role of DsPH
  Presentation by Dr Aliko Ahmed, Director of Public Health, Staffordshire
• Postgraduate Public Health - reforms
  Presentation by Dr Rob Cooper Associate Postgraduate Dean (Public Health) & Head of Postgraduate School of Public Health
• Commissioning Health Protection Services in the Arden Cluster
  Presentation by Dr Tanya Richardson, Public Health Consultant, NHS Coventry
• ARCP Process
  Presentation by Dr Rob Cooper, Associate Postgraduate Dean and Head of Postgraduate School of Public Health, West Midlands Deanery
• Skills and competences IPL needs for HPA & LGovt
  Presentation by Michael Parkes, Environmental Health Consultant
• Competences for Health Protection
  Presentation by Jeremy Hawker, Regional Epidemiologist, HPA WM
• Training The Trainer
  Presentation by Dr Rob Cooper, Associate Postgraduate Dean, Dr Naveed Syed, Consultant in Health Protection & Dr Chris Chiswell, Specialist Registrar
• E-Portfolio - The Unofficial User Guide
• Event Evaluation

• Balancing the evidence
• Cost-effective mental health promotion
  Presentation by Michael Parsonage, Centre for Mental Health
• Demonstrating value in tough times: an introduction to economic analysis
  Presentation by Fraser Battye, GHK
• Event Evaluation

This workshop was part of the Housing and Public Health series of workshops.

• Spatial Planning and Health: recognising the potential
  Presentation by Richard Turkington, Director of Housing Vision
• Modernising commissioning to achieve health, wellbeing & housing outcomes
  Presentation by Gill Leng, GLHS

• Introduction presentation
• Commissioning and development – an integrated approach
  Presentation by Lisa Hill
• Health Empowerment Leverage Project (HELP) Solihull Project
  Presentation by Gabriel Chanan
• Wellbeing, Resilience and Positive Mental Health - the way forward
  Presentation by Dr K Sidhu
• Event Evaluation

This workshop was part of the Housing and Public Health series of workshops.

• Housing and Health: the quality and use of intelligence
  Presentation by Richard Turkington, Director or Housing Vision.
• What’s driving the need for better intelligence?
  Presentation by Gill Leng, GLHS.

• Public Health Transition: supporting providers
  Presentation by Lola Abudu, Consultant in Public Health, West Midlands Office
• Role of Third Sector in Health and Wellbeing: strategy to reality
  Presentation by Cat Parker, Community Services, Coventry City Council.
• Right to Request
  Presentation by Paul Dodd, NHS West Midlands
• Launch of Information Tools to support communication and engagement between providers and commissioners
  Presentation by Polly Goodwin, Health Policy Associate, RAWM.
• A Fit for Purpose workforce
  Presentation by Tracey O’Brien, BVSC

This series of three half day workshops, were aimed at developing knowledge and understanding of child poverty issues. There was 1 session aimed at front line staff and 2 aimed at senior managers, commissioners and policy decision makers.

• Child Poverty Awareness Raising Session
  13th October 2011 at BVSC Centre for Voluntary Action, 138 Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 6DR
  This session was facilitated by Baljinder Bajwa and Mark Gibbs.

• Agenda
• Background to the Production of the Health & Well-Being Briefings
  Presentation by Janet Baker, Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, Department of Health, West Midlands
• Children and Young People’s Health & Well-Being – Child Accidental Injury Prevention
  Presentation by Ian Evans, Head of Education & Engagement, Child Accident Prevention Trust
• Culture, Leisure & Health – Opportunities through 2012
  Presentation by Simon Hall, Partnership Director & Suzanne Gardner, Commissioning Manager, Black Country Consortium
• Healthy Spatial Planning – National Planning Policy Framework Consultation Workshop
  Presentation by Angela Hands, Public Health Practitioner (Planning & Transport), Coventry City Council/ NHS Coventry
• Spatial planning, health and the NPPF
  Presentation by Paul Southon, Public Health Development Manager, Sandwell PCT

This practical and interactive workshop was delivered by Anna Sewell, West Midlands Local ChiMat Specialist. The event was interactive with participants supported to use the website and tools during the workshop.

• Flyer
• Presentation

Healthy communities live in healthy homes and neighbourhoods

• Agenda
• Housing from a health perspective
  Presentation by John Middleton, Director of Public Health for Sandwell
• Housing and Health: cause and effect
  The evidence of links between housing and health, presented by Richard Turkington, Housing Vision
• Housing and Health in Practice
  Presentation by Adenike Titiloye, Programme Director, West Midlands Kick Start Partnership
• Working Together for Healthier Communities
  Presentation by Julie Haywood, Head of Regeneration, Walsall Housing Group & Lesley Dews, NHS Walsall
• Action in the current context
  Presentation by Gill Leng, GLHS
• Healthy communities live in healthy homes and neighbourhoods
  Paper written by DH, Gill Leng and Housing Vision, summarising the current policies and plans for Health and Housing in the West Midlands.
• Housing: sources of support
  Presentation by Sarah Davis, Senior Policy and Practice Officer, CIH
• Localism: delivering integration across housing, health and care
  A Policy and Practice report by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH).
• Housing & Health in Tamworth – The Story So Far…
  Presentation by Lalitha Webb, South Staffordshire PCT & Steve Pointon, Tamworth BC

This free one day conference was aimed at the health trainer workforce. The conferrence looked at the national and local direction of the health trainer service.

• Agenda
• Conference Report
• Health Trainers in the West Midlands: Exploratory review of data from the DCRS
  Presentation by Paul Seamer, Business Analytics Team, NHS West Midlands
• Scoping Review of the Implementation of the National Health Trainers Initiative: Interim Findings
  Presentation by Prof Jayne Parry, University of Birmingham, School of Health and Population Sciences
• Engaging Hard to Reach Communities
  Presented by Sue McGavin, Director of "The Citizen Engagement Company", a social enterprise enabling your organisation to focus on what matters to people.
• Health Trainer – Lay Person or Professional Practitioner?
  Presentation by Marion Beloe, Lifestyle Programme Manager, NHS Stoke on Trent
• NHS West Midlands Public Health Practitioner Development Scheme
  Presentation by Sally James, Public Health Workforce Specialist, Workforce Deanery, NHS West Midlands
• Learning for Public Health and PHORCaST websites
  Presentation by Ginder Narle, Manager of Learning for Public Health West Midlands
• What is Social Enterprise?
  A presenation by Paul Dodd, Programme Specialist, Social Enterprise Development, NHS West Midlands & Sarah Crawley, CEO, iSE
• Managing Change
  Presented by Jayne McCullough, Health Trainer Coordinator, NHS Worcestershire Health Trainer Service
• Climbing the "mountain of well-being" - the journey so far!
  Presentation by Kate O'Hara, Independent Public Mental Health Promotion Specialist
• What is on the other side of the mountain?
  Reflections on working with a client who overcame her mountain, with the support of the Health Trainer Service, by Lorraine Beeston, Lifestyle Coach, Stoke on Trent.

Half day free event organised by Learning for Public Health.

• Event flyer and programme
• National Update
  Update from Martin Gibbs of the Health Inequalities Unit at the Department of Health on "Communities for Health"
• Local Government Improvement and Development Update
  Presentation by Sue Crutchley, Principal Consultant, Local Government Improvement and Development (LGID).
• West Midlands Communities for Health Network Projects Evaluation
  Presentation by Ginder Narle, Manager Learning for Public Health WM, Lead for WM Communities for Health Network and Sarah Pullen, Project Lead.
• Why the Fire Service - Improving Men's Health - A Partnership Approach
  Presentation by Jean Arrowsmith, Coventry City Council and Simon Shilton, West Midlands Fire Service.
• Healthy Cities
  Presentation by Judy Kurth, Stoke PCT
• Looking to the Future, Transition Support
  Presentation by Eleri Matthews, NHS West Midlands
• Lessons from Sandwell PCT
  Presentation by Paul Southon, Sandwell MBC
• Closing Remarks
  Presentation by Martin Reeves, Chief Executive of Coventry City Council
• Evaluation Report

• Programme
• Leadership for Organisational Change
  Introduction to the event presented by Rowena Clayton, Consultant in Public Health, NHS & DH West Midlands, for Dr Rashmi Shukla, WM Regional Director of Public Health.
• Health and Well-Being Boards, National and Local Update
  Presentation by Moria Dumma, Regional Director for Commissioning Development, NHS West Midlands & Denise Porter Deputy Regional Director, Social Care and Local Partnerships
• Partnership Working, CIEH
  Presentation by David Kidney, Head of Policy, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
• Partnership Working for Better Health Outcomes - are Health and Wellbeing Boards the Answer?
  Presentation by Cat Parker, Executive Project Manager, Coventry City Council & John Forde, Acting Director for PH Coventry PCT
• Why The Fire Service
  Workshop run by Simon Shilton & Jean Arrowsmith, Business Manager - Health
• Commissioning and Leading for Well-being
  Workshop run by Kate O’Hara & Jude Stansfield
• Public Mental Health and Well-Being: a legacy for the West Midlands
  Supporting document for the "Commissioning and Leading for Well-being" workshop
• Mental well-being checklist
  Supporting document for the "Commissioning and Leading for Well-being" workshop
• What does it take to be Healthy Town?
  Workshop run by Dean Hill, Physical Activity and CVD Prevention Programme Manager (PCT) & Head of Healthy Towns Programme (Dudley MBC)
• Partnership Working for health improvement in Planning: from core strategy to public health SPD
  Presentation by Jim McManus, Joint Director for PH, Birmingham City Council and Birmingham PCTs
• Spatial Planning & Public Health: Experience in Sandwell
  Presentation by Dene Stevens, Active Travel & Sustainability, Sandwell PCT
• Sandwell Healthy Urban Development Unit (SHUDU)
  Details of the Sandwell Healthy Urban Development Unit (SHUDU)
• Healthy Public Policy in Stoke-on-Trent
  Presentation by Judy Kurth, Strategic Coordinator for Health/Healthy City Manager, NHS Stoke on Trent PCT
• Healthy Places, Healthy Lives is a partnership programme which helps to reduce health inequalities and improve population health
  Presentation by Gary Lucking, NHS Institute and Stacy Sharman, Healthy City Project Officer
• Healthy Places, Healthy Lives: Stoke Project
  Presentation by Stacy Sharman, Healthy City Project Officer
• Healthy Places, Healthy Lives Project – Stoke-on-Trent
  Details of the "Stop Starting" programme in Stoke-on-Trent, which is a community based approach to tackling smoking prevalence in 9 to 14 year olds.
• Event Flyer

Presentations and documents from the Social Enterprise Event held on Thursday, 12th May 2011.

• Report from the Event
• Event Programme
• Structures for Social Enterprise
  Slides from the "Legal Structures" workshop
• Business Plan template
• Training Menu for June – July 2011
  Details of courses offered by iSE for the next 3 months.
• Brief Description of organisations participating in Social Enterprise Workshop

• Report from the Event
• Purpose of the Event
  Introduction to the event by Paul Dodd, Programme Specialist, NHS WM.
• Social Enterprise Explained!
  Sarah Crawley, Chief Executive, Initiative for Social Enterprise (iSE) explains what a Social Enterprise is.
• Social Enterprise & Health Services
  Robin Miller, Senior Fellow, Health Services Management Centre at University of Birmingham gave a brief history of social enterprise in health and a summary of the evidence on the benefits.
• Social enterprise and public health
  Dr Jacky Chambers, Deputy Chief Exec of Heart of Birmingham PCT and Programme Director for the NHS/Local Authority Transition Board, described the process to establish Health Exchange as an Social Enterprise.
• Health Exchange, Birmingham
  Graham Beaumont, Chief Executive of Health Exchange, completed the story of Health Exchange.
• Saheli Women's Group
  Naseem Akhtar and Shebina Gill run Saheli Women?s Group, which set up a programme to bring activities to Asian women in Birmingham.

• Programme
• Welcome
  Presented by Dr John Middleton, Chair WM TPHN/ Executive Director of PH for Sandwell
• Building an Effective Public Health Workforce in the West Midlands: Role of the Teaching Public Health Network
  Presentation by Dr Rashmi Shukla, Regional Director of Public Health
• Equipping our workforce to deliver an effective Public Health role
  Presentation by Sally James, Public Health Workforce Specialist, NHS West Midlands Workforce Deanery
• Sharing the learning across the West Midlands: The Communities for Health Network
  Presentation by Su Turner, Principal Consultant, I&DEA
• Local Authority Regulatory Services and Public Health – Learning & Working Together
  Presentation by Michael Parkes, Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner, West Midlands Teaching Public Health Network
• A reporter’s view of your Stakeholder Event
  By Graham Hill, Journalist & sub-editor & Carol Hassall, Owner, Red Cat Communications
• What happened when ‘journalists’ attended a public health event: an evaluation and learning points
  By Carol Hassall, Red Cat Communications

Plenary Presentations

• Welcome and Introduction by Olwen Dutton, Chief Executive, West Midlands Regional Assembly and West Midlands Leaders Board
• Regional Health and Wellbeing Strategy: Tackling the Wider Determinants of Health by Karen Saunders, Senior Public Health Manager, Department of Health West Midlands & Sue Holmyard, Assistant Director Planning & Environmental Health, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Planning for a Healthier Region: Experience from HUDU by Neil Blackshaw, Consultant to HUDU
• Planning Systems and Planners by Paul Tomlinson, Associate, Scott Wilson, Birmingham
• Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010 by Dr Tammy Boyce, Ilaria Geddes, University College London

Resource Sheets

• Greenspace further information
• Mental Well being and Planning resource sheet
• NHS Performance
• Play Shaper flyer
• Resource sheet general
• Resource sheet RHWBS

Workshops

• Designing with children & young people in mind by Laky Sahota, Regional Manager, Play England & Jane Puzey, Head of Cultural Programmes, MADE
• Greenspace workshop Active Woods
• Green Space and Health Workshop
• Planning for a Healthier Region: Housing workshop
• Obesogenic environments by Karen Saunders, Department of Health West Midlands, Suzanne Gardner, Physical Activity Network, West Midlands & Michael Parkes, Independent Consultant, Environmental Health
• Spatial Planning & Heath: The View from the East End by Tim Madelin, Senior Public Health Strategist, NHS Tower Hamlets
• Transport Workshop by Paul Tomlinson, Scott Wilson & Peter Matthews, GOWM

• Event report

The launch of a public health training needs assessment tool and an interactive session on the ambitious project behind its development – including the six pilot sites, each with a focus on its own public health priority.

• Event Programme

Over sixty delegates from Local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Higher and Further Education Institutions and Regional Bodies such as the Government Office West Midlands, Learning and Skills Council and NHS West Midlands took part in a days in an interactive session Delegates were asked to comment on what they felt they had gained from the Network, what they thought they could contribute to the Network, what more the Network could be doing and how the Department of Health can help. At the end of the session there was an update on progress with the Public Health induction Project.

Presentations are summary report from the event:

• Meeting the needs of teaching providers, service providers, students, commissioners to develop the future public health workforce
  Presented by Jenny Wright & Dr Marilena Korkodilos
• Public Health Priorities in the West Midlands
  Presented by Karen Saunders
• Gaining a wider public health workforce perspective
  Presented by Patricia Bond
• West Midlands TPHN Public Health Skills and Career Framework (PHSCF) Pilots
• Higher Education position and strategy within Skills for Health
  Presented by Chris Lamb
• A skills escalator for the future public health workforce
  Presented by Isabel Perez
• Skills Escalator Tool
  Presented by Cathleen Manancourt
• Mapping the public health content of the MPharm at Keele University
  Presented by Nicola Leighton
• Summary report

Forty delegates from Local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Higher Education Institutions and Regional Bodies such as the Government Office West Midlands, Learning and Skills Council and NHS West Midlands took part in an interactive session with Bryony Lamb, Centre for the advancement of Inter-professional Education (CAIPE). Stakeholders agreed there is a need to systematise the use inter-professional learning as a teaching delivery mode. After lunch there was an opportunity to select a workshop from a range of public health themes and input to developing public health teaching projects. The final session described how the Public Health Career Framework has been applied in two regional pilots

1. identify competency gaps in the current wider public health workforce*
2. map the public health content of university courses delivered to the future wider public health workforce*

(* defined as those staff where public health is not the main focus of their role but where there is a significant opportunity to bring about health improvement and reduce health inequalities through their work in the community)

• Wider Stakeholder Group Event Summary