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Framework for National Performance Indicators for Nursing & Midwifery

14.6.2017 The purpose of this Framework is to Framework for National Performance Indicators for Nursing & Midwifery 10.14655/11971-1128818 Department of Health (Ireland) Nursing, Nurse, Midwife, Pregnancy 14.6.2017 The purpose of this Framework is t ...

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A Performance Measurement Framework for Drug and Alcohol Task Forces

5.7.2017 The Performance Measurement Framework for Drug and Alcohol Task Forces was developed by Trutz Haase Economic Consultants on behalf of the Department of Health. The aim of the report is to develop a longitudinal performance measurement framework w ...

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Nutrition Standards for School Meals

25.9.2017 These Nutrition Standards for School Meals are being published under the auspices of Healthy Ireland, the national Framework which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of the population of Ireland. Healthy Ireland takes a â?~whole of Governm ...

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Working Together for Health- A National Strategic Framework for Health and Social Care Workforce Planning

13.11.2017 Global and regional health workforce demand is expected to increase in the coming decades as a consequence of population and economic growth, combined with demographic, epidemiological and other factors. In this context, the European Commission ...

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Multimorbidity: quality standard.

This quality standard covers clinical assessment, prioritising and managing healthcare for adults aged 18 years and over with 2 or more long-term health conditions (multimorbidity). At least 1 of these conditions must be a physical health condition. It de ...

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Looking at our school 2016: a quality framework for post-primary schools.

. Ireland. Department of Education and Skills. The Inspectorate Learning, Teaching, Education Looking at Our School 2016: A Quality Framework for Primary Schools provides a unified and coherent set of standards for two dimensions of the work of schools: • ...

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Framework for National Performance Indicators for Nursing & Midwifery

14.6.2017 The purpose of this Framework is to Framework for National Performance Indicators for Nursing & Midwifery Department of Health (Ireland) health, population, ireland, government 14.6.2017 T The purpose of this Framework is to set out the po ...

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A Performance Measurement Framework for Drug and Alcohol Task Forces

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Minimum nutritional standards for catering in health and social care for staff and visitors

New nutritional standards have been introduced which are designed to make the food on offer for staff and visitors in hospital restaurants and cafÃ©s healthier. Settings such as restaurants, coffee shops and workplace canteens, including those in in the h ...

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Career and education framework for cancer nursing

The RCN's Career and Education Framework for Cancer Nursing for UK nursing staff is the first to incorporate cancer-specific nursing outcomes. The Framework and outcomes are intended to be used as part of professional, education and workforce develop ...

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Safety Quality and Standards Circulars 2016-2017

Advice in relation to Safety, Quality and Standards for 2016-2017 Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland) Circulars, Safety and quality standards, Safety and quality standards circulars Advice in relation to Safety, Qual ...

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Quality and outcomes framework 2015/16

This bulletin presents quality and outcomes framework achievement data (QOF) for reporting year in question. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland) Statistical reports, DoH statistics and research, GP activity, funding ...

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Controls Assurance Standards

Set out below are 22 Controls Assurance Standards which have been developed by the DoH to support the embedding of organisation-wide risk management in HSC Bodies. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland) Legislation an ...

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Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF)

Public Health England (PHE) Employer, Education, Public Health, Workforce, Health System The framework is accompanied by a helpful user guide, setting out how it can be used by individuals, employers and educational providers working in public health. Peo ...

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Framework Agreement on the Supply and Pricing of Medicines

20.7.2016 Medicines play a key role in improving the health of patients in Ireland. Securing timely access to medicines for patients at an affordable price, in particular innovative medicines offering enhanced health outcomes, is a key priority for Irelan ...

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Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care Report

Our purpose in writing is to clarify the way forward for the consideration of the findings of the Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care Report. The four CDOs have met with representatives from the Intercollegiate Advisory Commit ...

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A Framework for Personalised Care and Population Health for Nurses, Midwives, Health Visitors and Allied Health Professionals

This framework has been developed to underpin our national programme to maximise the impact of nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals (AHPs) on improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities. It aims to support and shape “h ...

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Governance Framework for the Department of Health

21.4.2016This Governance Framework aims to provide a clear overview of the principal aspects of corporate governance within the Department of Health.The Governance Framework is drafted in accordance with the Corporate Governance Standard for the Civil Ser ...

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Northern Ireland Medicines Optimisation Quality Framework

The Medicines Optimisation Quality Framework aims to support better health outcomes for our population by focusing attention on gaining the best possible outcome from medicines every time that they are prescribed, dispensed or administered. The Framework ...

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Minimum standards for supported lodgings for young people and young adults (aged 16-21) in Northern Ireland

Supported lodgings aim to provide young people with safe, suitable and supportive places to live within a local familial type environment. The minimum standards for supported lodgings accommodation will set a benchmark to be used by current and future sup ...

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25 May 2018

IPH presents results of a study of the lifetime cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland at the Summer Scientific Meeting 2018

The Faculty of Public Health's Annual Summer Scientific Meeting was held on 30th & 31st of May 2018 in Dublin. Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the IPH presented the results from the 'Lifetime financial costs of childhood obesity/overweight in Ireland and Northern Ireland'. The JANPA/safefood project estimated that the obesity/overweight in the island's 2015 childhood population was associated with lifetime excess financial costs of €7.1 (in 2015 values). Direct health care costs accounted for approximately 25% of this total costs. The biggest cost category was lost productivity due to premature death that accounted for approximately 60% of total excess lifetime costs on the island. The study highlights gender differences and North/South differences in the magnitude of the cost categories.

Contact Prof Balanda at kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie

JANPA http://www.janpa.eu/

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Faculty of Public Health Medicine

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25 May 2018

IPH contributes to the JANPA Skills Building Workshop to ECO2018

The ECO2018 Congress on Obesity was held from 23rd to 26th of May 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the IPH contributed a session to the JANPA Workshop. The brief session looked at mobilising data and research to estimate the lifetime costs of childhood obesity using the JANPA costing model. It outlined the data and research required, described some of the challenges and gave tips for overcoming these challenges. It ended with a brief overview of the opportunities that exist for countries in conducting such study in their country.

Contact Prof Balanda at kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie

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JANPA

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25 May 2018

IPH presents results of a study of the lifetime cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland to ECO2018

The ECO2018 Congress on Obesity was held from 23rd to 26th of May 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the IPH delivered an invited talk to the Congress on the 'Lifetime financial costs of childhood obesity/overweight in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The JANPA/safefood project estimated that the obesity/overweight in the island's 2015 childhood population was associated with lifetime excess financial costs of €7.1 (in 2015 values). Direct health care costs accounted for approximately 25% of this total costs. The biggest cost category was lost productivity due to premature death that accounted for approximately 60% of total excess lifetime costs on the island.

Contact Prof Balanda at kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie

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JANPA

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21 May 2018

Poster "Lifetime financial cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland" presented at the 6th ASOI Annual Conference

The 2018 meeting was held on the 14th of May 2018 in association with the Division of Population Health Sciences at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. This year the focus was on the environmental determinants of food consumption and obesity.

Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the Institute of Public health was delighted to present a poster on the Lifetime financial cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland.

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To find out more information about IPH work on obesity, visit the Health Well Obesity Hub.

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14 May 2018

International Men’s Health Week 2018

International Men’s Health Week (MHW) will run from Monday 11th until Sunday 17th June 2018. It is celebrated in many European countries, as well as in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

The overall aims of MHW are to:

Heighten awareness of preventable health problems for males of all ages
Support men and boys to engage in healthier lifestyle choices / activities
Encourage the early detection and treatment of health difficulties in males.

Everyone is encouraged to work together to do at least one small practical thing to improve their own health and the health of men across the island. People in Ireland are also being asked to do something out of this world.

Read more about how to get involved here.

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8 May 2018

ASOI Conference 2018

The Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland (ASOI) will hold its 2018 Annual Conference on May 14th 2018 in association with the Division of Population Health Sciences at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The conference will take in the main campus of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2.

This year the focus is on the Environmental determinants of food consumption and obesity. Send your abstract to be in with a chance to win the ASOI Award for best submitted abstract (see abstract submission details below).

Online registration for the conference is available here: asoi.web.ie/events/

ASOI 2018 Programme

ASOI 2018 Registration Form

ASOI 2018 Call for Abstracts

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26 April 2018

Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting & European Congress of Epidemiology 2019

The Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting (the UK’s leading population health conference) takes place in Glasgow in 2018. It is being organised by colleagues from the University of Glasgow and the wider public health community in Glasgow.

The SSM 62^nd Annual Scientific Meeting is a three-day academic and professional conference with a mix of high quality, peer-reviewed oral presentations, posters and workshops and ample opportunity for networking. Two keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Kate Hunt (the Cochrane Lecture) and Professor Mel Bartley (the Pemberton Lecture). Oral presentations run in parallel and are organised by topics, including Health Inequalities, Health Services Research, Lifecourse, Neighbourhoods & Communities, Mental Health & Wellbeing.

More information can be found on the Conference website.

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18 April 2018

IPH Dublin Office has moved

The IPH Dublin staff team have moved to their new office in Vistatec House, 700 South Circular Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.

The move took place on Wednesday 18th April 2018.

Our phone number and email address will stay the same.

IPH Dublin Office has moved

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10 April 2018

Joint Action on Nutrition and Physical Activity (JANPA)

WP4| COST OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY

The overall aim of this EU project was to contribute to halting the rise of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents by 2020. JANPA stands for “Joint Action on Nutrition and Physical Activity”.

Considerable work has been done on the healthcare costs of adult obesity. Impacts of childhood obesity, however, are rarely included in such obesity costing studies. More work was necessary to understand the impacts of childhood obesity as well as exploring non-healthcare (societal) costs in more detail. JANPA Work Package 4 starts to fill this gap by “developing the evidence-based economic rationale for action on childhood obesity”.

The technical objectives of Work Package 4 are:

to describe the lifetime impact and cost of childhood obesity
to assess the benefits of reducing childhood obesity by 1% and 5%.

This was attempted in seven European countries.

Professor Kevin Balanda (kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie) led JANP WP4. The JANPA WP4 costing model was implemented in an adaptation of the UKHF’s existing software.

JANPA WP4 was a very challenging project and its final deliverables are now available. In particular, final figures for Ireland and Northern Ireland are presented in Deliverable D4.6.

JANPA

JANPA WP4

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13 February 2018

'Murtall' the new term for obesity in the Irish Language

The Association for the Study of Obesity on the island of Ireland (ASOI) has successfully changed the word for obesity in the Irish language. ‘Otracht’ was previously the Irish term for obesity. The English translation of ‘otracht’ is critical, negative and derogatory.

“Language is important. The words we choose matter” says Dr Jean O’Connell, Chair of ASOI. “People living with certain stigmatised diseases say that coping with the stigma of the disease is harder than coping with the disease itself. We need to change the way that we talk about overweight and obesity, in every language”.

Niamh Arthurs (Public Health and Clinical Nutritionist, ASOI Education role) addressed this concern with Foras Na Gaeilge. They advised Ms Arthurs to bring the case to the translation section of the Oireachtas in Leinster House. Following discussion, they informed the ASOI that the word ‘murtall’ will be used instead of ‘otracht’ in legislation in Ireland and they will also advise European institutions to use the term ‘murtall’ in future. Foras Na Gaeilge also stated that they would recommend general use of the term ‘murtall’.

'Murtall' the new term for obesity in the Irish Language

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