Overview

If you happen to be in a park at 9am on a Saturday morning, you may well encounter a parkrun. parkrun (always one lower-case word!) is a free, weekly, timed 5K run – not, it is stressed, a race – open to all. The parkrun message is that ‘parkrun is for everyone’; locally driven, and as much about friendship, community and supporting sustainable lifestyle change as it is about running. In addition, a recent research study has concluded that parkrun may be a cost-effective way to improve public health, with evidence that it can improve participants’ physical and mental wellbeing.

The NHS North West Leadership Academy is a member’s organisation created to help develop senior leaders in the North West to be the best they can be, ensuring that they create the environment and the culture to enable the delivery of caring, compassionate, safe, effective high quality services for patients, service users and local populations.The NHS North West Leadership Academy’s focus is to provide current, effective, leadership programmes, products and support to help NHS North West leaders face and overcome the challenges that come their way.The NHS North West Leadership Academy:Unders

National General Practice (GP) Profiles are designed as a tool to support GPs, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and PCTs to ensure that they are providing and commissioning effective and appropriate healthcare services for their local population.Using a variety of graphical displays such as spine charts and population pyramids, the tool represents a range of practice-level indicators drawn from the latest available data, including:     

To coincide with the first anniversary of the launch of Health Education North West’s Apprenticeship Promise a celebration event was held on 13th March at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton.Sir Keith Pearson (Chair, Health Education England) and Sally Cheshire (Chair, Health Education North West) were joined by apprentices and NHS trust representatives from across the region along with strategic partners, to celebrate the region’s achievements since last year’s launch. This document provides an overview of that event. 

The primary aim of the GP Tool is to collect information on primary care practice staff. This includes GPs, nurses, direct patient care workers, practice management and apprentices so that:Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber (HEYH) can invest in training and education in primary care GP practices are supported in workforce planningCommissioners of services can understand the current and future workforce challenges in Primary CareThe pilot at HEYH has developed a web-based tool to collect and record primary care workforce information.

The Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) is a programme developed over a decade ago by Gettheworldmoving to improve the health and productivity of employees around the world.In that time the programme has transformed the cultures of thousands of the world’s leading organisations, including many NHS trusts, and has changed the lives of over a million employees across 158 countries.GCC optimises organisations’ most valuable/expensive asset - their human capital - and ensures that employees arrive each day in the right physical and mental shape so that they are fully engaged.

An event was held by Skills for Care on 8th May 2013 aimed at leaders and managers of care services who wished to find out more about workforce development in order to provide quality end of life care (EOLC) services. This overview document provides detail on six End of Life Care tools, as well as the Common Core Principles for Dignity.

The first Y&H eLearning awards took place on the 18th June 2014 at the Hilton, Leeds.It was a celebration of the hard work and achievements that have taken place through-out the region.There were six categories in total and a breakdown of winners, runner-ups and nominees.For more information on any of the awards, or to nominate someone for the next eLearning awards please contact:Kate Holliday - Health Education Yorkshire and the Humberemail: kate.holliday@yh.hee.nhs.uk 

A partnership between Edge Hill University, NHS South Sefton CCG, NHS Southport and Formby CCG and the North West Placement Development Network (NWPDN) has developed a project to provide nursing students with a placement in a CCG. They have highlighted the need for nurses to gain experience and knowledge of working in a CCG and to promote this as a possible career destination.

Skills for Health and Skills for Care were commissioned by the Department of Health following the Secretary of State’s speech at an NHS Employers conference on 15 November 2011, where he announced that the Government’s intention was to commission work to develop a Code of Conduct and minimum standards for education for support workers.The Code of Conduct and National Minimum Training Standards are aimed at healthcare support workers and adult social care workers throughout England and as such are relevant to all NHS employers.