Friday, May 11, 2007
Conference on Public Health
Conference Title:-
Peninsula Teaching Public Health Network Learning Event
Date:-
29th March 2007 – Plymouth
In attendance:-
Phil Barter and Melissa Coyle, SSPEL, Marjon
Phil Barter and Melissa Coyle recently attended a conference on public health. It was an opportunity to ‘network’ with the elite health workers in the peninsula area. The presenters included John Richards CEO Plymouth teaching PCT and Lindsey Hayes from the Royal College of Nursing delivering the most recent information in public health.
John Richards delivered a presentation of how much the PCT had changed and was going to change. He highlighted that education was key to this process and events like this enhanced that view. John stressed the importance of everyone working together to achieve common goals. Lindsey Hayes delivered a fantastic presentation on how health should be about the whole person and not just the physical nature of today’s public health. The importance of nursing was obviously a constant throughout the presentation but this emphasised the message about getting the balance right between the social, physical and mental wellbeing of the patient.
Kevin Ellison (Plymouth teaching PCT consultant) presented the changing face of public health in terms of pay structure and how it was now possible to earn a good wage through the non medical posts. He had produced a diagram on how you could progress through from any level and end up at the top CEO position. The only disappointing aspect to his presentation was the absence of Marjon as an education provider in the South West in this discipline.
The afternoon sessions involved an interactive quiz delivered by Paul Brown (Peak Performance) that everyone in the room had to take part in. The quiz was an opportunity for delegates to have their input on a variety of topics from the direction of public health to what was more important, the person who invented the sewage system or the person who discovered penicillin.
Overall it was an informative event about the local PCT and an opportunity to meet a lot of the key providers in the area which could influence the future development of SSPEL programmes, in particular HEPA.
Phil Barter
Lecturer in ASC & HEPA
Peninsula Teaching Public Health Network Learning Event
Date:-
29th March 2007 – Plymouth
In attendance:-
Phil Barter and Melissa Coyle, SSPEL, Marjon
Phil Barter and Melissa Coyle recently attended a conference on public health. It was an opportunity to ‘network’ with the elite health workers in the peninsula area. The presenters included John Richards CEO Plymouth teaching PCT and Lindsey Hayes from the Royal College of Nursing delivering the most recent information in public health.
John Richards delivered a presentation of how much the PCT had changed and was going to change. He highlighted that education was key to this process and events like this enhanced that view. John stressed the importance of everyone working together to achieve common goals. Lindsey Hayes delivered a fantastic presentation on how health should be about the whole person and not just the physical nature of today’s public health. The importance of nursing was obviously a constant throughout the presentation but this emphasised the message about getting the balance right between the social, physical and mental wellbeing of the patient.
Kevin Ellison (Plymouth teaching PCT consultant) presented the changing face of public health in terms of pay structure and how it was now possible to earn a good wage through the non medical posts. He had produced a diagram on how you could progress through from any level and end up at the top CEO position. The only disappointing aspect to his presentation was the absence of Marjon as an education provider in the South West in this discipline.
The afternoon sessions involved an interactive quiz delivered by Paul Brown (Peak Performance) that everyone in the room had to take part in. The quiz was an opportunity for delegates to have their input on a variety of topics from the direction of public health to what was more important, the person who invented the sewage system or the person who discovered penicillin.
Overall it was an informative event about the local PCT and an opportunity to meet a lot of the key providers in the area which could influence the future development of SSPEL programmes, in particular HEPA.
Phil Barter
Lecturer in ASC & HEPA
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