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Promoting healthy lifestyles - preventing ill-health

This category is for specific work that promotes well-being, and prevents illness and disease, rather than work which treats or rehabilitates those who already have a health problem.  You will have improved people’s control over their lives so that they stay healthy, by improving their social contacts, income, skills, housing or environment; prevented disease generally, perhaps by helping people to change their lifestyle or prevented specific diseases by, for example, immunisation or screening.
healthy lifestyles

  • You have used the local evidence to identify the need

  • You have been clear about what you did

  • You have been specific about the role of partners

  • You have measured your effectiveness

  • You have updated the local evidence

 

Nominations in this category are:

 

Title of submission:          Community food workers - reaching the parts others fail to reach

Lead organisation:             Nottingham City PCT - Winners

Contact person:                  Lauren Kinnersley, Community Dietician

A hearty congratulations to the Best-Top Community Food Project Team of Nottingham City PCT!!

Title of submission:           Falls prevention in the community

Lead organisation:             Nottingham City PCT

Contact person:                   Rachel Sokal, Falls Co-ordinator

Title of submission:            ICare  (Infant Care) Parenting Group for parents who have

                                                drug and alcohol problems

Lead organisation:              Central and Greater Derby PCTs

Contact person:                   Liz Harman, Health Visitor

Title of submission:            Lincolnshire smoke free homes

Lead organisation:              West Lincolnshire PCT

Contact person:                   Gary Burroughs, Coordinator - Phoenix Smoking Cessation Service