Preventing obesity and helping people to manage their weight

This briefing summarises NICEs recommendations for local authorities and partner organisations on preventing people becoming overweight and obese and helping them to manage their weight. It is particularly relevant to health and wellbeing boards.Adults with a body mass index or BMI weight in kg/height in m2 of over 30 are classified as obese and those with a BMI of 25–29.9 are classified as overweight. See Public Health Englands Measuring and interpreting BMI in children to determine when children are overweight or obese.

via Preventing obesity and helping people to manage their weight… PHB9.

NICE to develop public health standards

NICE will develop quality standards to hold the NHS to account for its public health activity for the first time, with the first to look at tobacco, harmful use of alcohol and obesity, the Government has announced.

http://www.nice.org.uk/newsroom/news/FirstSetNICEPublicHealthQualitStandardsRevealed.jsp

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commissioning/commissioning-topics/ccgs/nice-to-develop-public-health-standards/20002958.article

Information Consultancy: The Health Needs of 3 Emerging Communities in Bolton (May 2013 update)

This is an update to an information consultancy originally produced in August 2011. It is recommended you read both. To view August 2011 consultancy – please click here

Health Needs of 3 Emerging Communities May 2013 Update

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Boltons Health Matters Presents: Care Homes Infection Control & Reducing re-admission to Hospital – A Scoping Snapshot

Boltons Health Matters Presents Care Homes Infection Control & Reducing re-admission to Hospital –A Scoping Snapshot

An evidence summary produced by NHS Bolton Library. Please click on the link to view. This is an original piece of work. Please contact the library if you wish to re-use in any format.

Produced by Amy Faye Finnegan and Michael Cook

Government response to the Health Select Committee report on the future of NICE

In its response to the Health Select Committee’s report on the future role of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the government has confirmed NICE will:

• have a crucial role in the future value-based pricing arrangements for branded medicines.
• build on its current drug evaluation processes by giving it broader scope to assess a medicine’s benefits and costs. The aim is to make sure that the price the NHS pays for new medicines is more closely linked to their value to NHS patients and society.

via Government response to the Health Select Committee report on the future of NICE | Department of Health.

Why are clinical commissioning groups dominated by men?

Too few women are on CCG boards – meaning they don’t properly represent the workforce or the local population

via Why are clinical commissioning groups dominated by men? | Healthcare Professionals Network | Guardian Professional.

NICE to assess value of medicines from 2014

NICE will take responsibility for assessing the full value of medicines when new pricing arrangements are introduced in 2014 the Government announced today.

via NICE to assess value of medicines from 2014 | Media Centre.