The WMPHO workplan is agreed with the Regional Director of Public Health and approved by the WMPHO board. However it is open to influence by all the stakeholders WMPHO serves – Central Department of Health, Department of Health in the West Midlands, West Midlands SHA, PCTs, Local Authorities, NHS Provider Trusts and Others. It is a flexible plan and changes to reflect the changing priorities of the public health community. The following are excerpts from the work plan of projects planned for delivery in the next 6 months.
Workshops for public health information analysts on methods and issues in public health information analysis.
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.
The Local Profile data available on the WMPHO website will be updated with new data.
Ensure complete and accurate recording of drug treatment by West Midlands drug and alcohol agencies to National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS).
Quarterly newsletter with news of important local and national public health events and issues. Jointly produced with West Midlands DH.
National Excess Winter deaths interactive atlas showing trend of excess winter deaths index is available from http://www.wmpho.org.uk/excesswinterdeathsinenglandatlas/default.aspx We are working towards updating the atlas with the latest years data.
WMPHO will be pulling together initially 15 indicators around older people using the Public Health Outcomes framework (the framework is available from http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_122944 ) as an guide to what these indicators should be. The work will be published as an Instant Atlas at Local Authority level.
WMPHO have been supporting the work steered by EMPHO to deliever additional and updated indicators for the JSNA national dataset. http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=87735
The PHOs will be contributing to the production of the CMO annual report.
All PHOs are working on the data analysis of indicators for inclusion in this years health profiles.
All PHOs are supporting the work NEPHO in the production of the National Community Mental Health Profiles
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 to be published early 2012.
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.