Hertfordshire Health Matters
Friday 15 November 2019
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Angela, a physiotherapist from Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, shows visitors some useful exercises to help keep their muscles warm and improve their strength and balance.
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Free 'Winter Warmer' events in Hatfield, Stevenage and Letchworth
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A big thank you to everyone who made the first free 'Winter Warmer' event of the season a great success.
Held in Welwyn Garden City today (15 November), visitors heard from a range of experts from Hertfordshire Independent Living Service (HILS), Herts Urgent Care (HUC) and Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust who covered a variety of useful topics on:
- getting the most from NHS111
- healthy eating during winter
- exercise information to keep you healthy
- staying safe and secure in your home
- advice and services that can help you.
Fred from Welwyn Garden City, said: "The event has been very worthwhile. It has been great to learn so much and get contact details for so many organisations. Lunch has been good too!"
 Peter from Welwyn Garden City, said: "It's been an informative morning with a relaxed atmosphere. I've learnt some useful exercises and the importance of keeping my muscle strength up."
Do you know someone who would benefit from going to one of our other 'Winter Warmer' events? They include a free light lunch and refreshments and are being run in:
- Hatfield on Monday 18 November 2019
- Stevenage on Monday 2 December 2019
- Letchworth on Monday 24 January 2020
For more information on the events and how to book a place, please visit: https://www.healthierfuture.org.uk/events/winter
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Celebrating excellence at the prestigious HSJ Awards
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Two organisations running services in our area have received fantastic Health Service Journal accolades.
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust's (HCT) East and North Herts Referral Hub was named winner of the 'Community or primary care service redesign' award.
The Hub initiative was recognised for the positive impact that the project has had on patients and health and social care staff across east and north Hertfordshire. Judges applauded the team for their passion and practical steps which have freed up clinical time, enabling community teams to focus on people and personal care.
Clare Hawkins, Chief Executive of HCT said: “This is a fabulous achievement and everyone at the Trust joins me in congratulating the East and North Referral Hub team for their hard work and dedication over the previous 18 months.”
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Meanwhile, winning the award for 'Acute or Specialist Service Redesign Initiative', Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust's (HPFT) deputy chief executive and executive director of finance Keith Loveman said: “I’m really proud of all our finalists for receiving this well-deserved national recognition. They have all embraced new ideas for improving our services, with passion, hard work and dedication – I couldn’t ask for more."
Abigail Firth-Bernard accepted the award on behalf of the team, together with two of her colleagues and said: “It was an honour to receive an award for all of the hard work that went into establishing and developing the Home Treatment Team. The team do a fantastic job and so being recognised in this way, only motivates us to keep up the good work."
For more information, please visit:
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Have you had your free flu vaccine?
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The best way to prevent getting flu is to have the flu jab (or flu nasal spray for children aged two to 17). The flu vaccine gives good protection against flu and lasts for one year. See why flu vaccination is important for people with long-term health conditions.
Flu is very infectious and spread by germs from coughs and sneezes, which can live on hands and surfaces for 24 hours. To reduce the risk of spreading flu, use tissues to trap germs when you cough or sneeze, wash your hands often with warm water and soap, and bin used tissues as quickly as possible. Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.
Ask your GP, pharmacist or midwife about the free flu vaccine.
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Launch of the National Academy for Social Prescribing
Two of our social prescribing experts were recently invited to the official launch of the National Academy for Social Prescribing.
The Academy aims to create partnerships across arts, health, sports and leisure alongside other sectors to promote health and wellbeing at a national and local level.
Nursing Times Award recognition
Well done to the STP’s Tissue Viability team for being shortlisted for the recent Nursing Times Awards. Their work to have a more standard approach to tissue viability across the STP and address the unwarranted variation in services available for people with leg ulceration and lympoedema/chronic oedema was recognised as ‘having the potential to have a huge impact’.
Whilst the team did not win, getting through to the final round was an achievement and a great recognition of the work done so far.
Find out more about our STP by visiting: www.healthierfuture.org.uk
There are links to the STP’s ‘Healthier Future’ newsletter and copies of the STP leader’s update on our intranet.
Follow us on Twitter: @HWEfutureSTP
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NEWSLETTERS AND EVENTS
This section promotes useful newsletters from organisations in our area which you can share. We'll also post information on health-related events in the area that you might find interesting.
Beezee Bodies are running a number of free courses this November. Their family focused sessions are filled with exciting activities and practical healthy eating advice to help you feel great and live your best life! Sessions are available in Stevenage, Welwyn, St Albans, Leavesden and Letchworth.
18 November: Free 'Winter Warmer' event, Jim McDonald Centre (Jimmy Macs), McDonald Court, High View, Hatfield, 10am-1.30pm. Book a place on Eventbrite or call HertsHelp on 0300 123 4044.
20 November: Free Memory Cafe, Hertford Theatre, The Wash, Hertford, 11.30am-1.30pm.
2 December: Free 'Winter Warmer event', Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre, Lytton Way, Stevenage, 10am-1.30pm. Book a place on Eventbrite or call HertsHelp on 0300 123 4044.
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LOCAL NEWS week ending 10 November
Some of our area's outlets covered a range of health matters in the past week. Click on the links to take you to their home pages where you can search for health news.
The Comet
Herts Advertiser
Welwyn Hatfield Times
Watford Observer
Bishop’s Stortford Independent
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@ENHertsCCG Twitter report
4 - 10 November 2019
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Total followers: 5,062
New followers this week: 1
Tweets sent this week: 25
Total number of views of our tweets: 8,902
Retweets this week: 8
Total number of ‘follows’ or tweets ‘favourited’ or ‘re-tweeted’: 50
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