Work in progress

Response to public health queries from PCTs, Local Authorities and others. The WMPHO Information Team staff work on a rota basis to deal with information requests. The team aims to answer most queries within 48 hours and nearly all within 14 days.

Quarterly newsletter with news of important local and national public health events and issues. Jointly produced with West Midlands DH.

Ensure complete and accurate recording of drug treatment by West Midlands drug and alcohol agencies to National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS).

Maintains and develops the HIA Gateway seeking out information relevant to HIA and to support practitioners in HIA and other Impact Assessments. Those registered with the site receive a monthly update of new resources added to the site. Quarterly reports on progress are sent to the Department of Health. The HIA Bibliography is up dated quarterly.
Continuously available/Quarterly (March, June, September, December)

HIA Gateway aims to respond to requests for information within 48 hours.

Paper on HIA by the HIA Gateway and a HIA team has been accepted in the Journal of Community Informatics and is due to be published in the September edition.

LHO in collaboration with the Department of Health are leading on work to pull together a dataset of the PHOF indicators. Work around producing the data for each of the indicators has been shared out across the PHOs.

The HIA gateway is a national and international web site which provides access to information and resources on Health Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment and health in other impact assessments. It contains a large collection of completed HIA reports as well as guidance and other documents relating to these assessments.