Skips on Saturday

10th May 2014

10:30am Bellhouse Way (Community Centre)
  • The skips are funded by the local residents association using their Estate Improvement Grant. The skips are removed once they are full so please make sure you arrive in good time if you intend to make use of them.
  • Please remember to take your waste to the site only on the dates advertised
  • If the skip is full or not on the site, please do not leave your waste. This is classed as fly tipping and is illegal
  • Bulky items including furniture, fridges and freezers are not accepted. To arrange disposal of one of these items please ring York (01904) 551551.

Trend in Alcohol-specific Hospital Admissions Continues to Decline

New figures from Public Health England (PHE) show a continued decline in alcohol-specific hospital admissions in York.

A separate report however identified York as one of the worst places for “binge drinking”

The figures are the latest update to the Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) data tool and includes a new measure of alcohol-related harm.

The LAPE tool presents data for 26 alcohol-related indicators in an interactive tool, which helps local areas assess alcohol-related harm and monitor the progress of efforts to reduce this.

 

The indicators for York are compared with the national average and rated as significantly better, significantly worse or not significantly different.

York is rated as significantly better than the national average for alcohol specific admissions to hospital for both under 18s1 (36% lower) and males (24% lower), alcohol related hospital admissions for both males and females and hospital admissions for alcohol related conditions.

York is rated as significantly worse than the national average for the estimated levels of binge drinking (defined as >8 units of alcohol for men and >6 units of alcohol for women consumed in a single session) (29.7% of the York population compared to the national average of 20.1%) and unsurprisingly the percentage of employees working in bars (2.30% in York compared to 1.79% nationally).

York is rated as not significantly different to the national average for alcohol specific and alcohol related mortality, mortality from chronic liver disease and the estimated number of abstainers.

City of York Council’s Director of Health and Wellbeing Dr Paul Edmondson-Jones said: “We welcome the continuing decline in alcohol-specific hospital admissions but the current levels of binge drinkers in York identified in these figures remain unacceptably high.  Receiving the Local Alcohol Profiles for England is an opportunity for the council’s Public Health team to assess alcohol-related harm in the city and monitor the progress of efforts to reduce this.”

 

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New campaign urges York residents to become Dementia Friends

City of York Council is urging residents and businesses across the city to support the new Dementia Friends campaign.

Dementia is arguably the biggest health crisis facing the UK1: there are currently 665,065 people in England who have dementia2 and an estimated twenty-one million people in England have a close friend or family member with dementia8– because they live with or care for someone who has dementia.

In York it is thought there are 2,725 people currently living with dementia and this is expected to rise to 3,209 by 2020.

 

The campaign, launched by Public Health England and Alzheimer’s Society, is encouraging people in York to become a Dementia Friend by watching a short interactive video online to increase their understanding of the disease and implementing their experience on a daily basis. A number of businesses with shops in York have already signed up to the campaign and will be encouraging their employees to become Dementia Friends, including Marks & Spencer, Lloyds Bank and Superdrug.

Paul Edmondson-Jones, Director of Health and Wellbeing, City of York Council, said: “One in three of us over the age of 654 will develop dementia, an incredibly high statistic. But people with dementia can live well, and it is the responsibility of the rest of the community to help them do so.

“It is only by personally understanding the issues that people living with dementia face, can we fully appreciate the challenges they have to overcome on a day-to-day basis. By participating in the short information session to become a Dementia Friend, you are playing crucial role in helping us take one step closer to creating a dementia-friendly society.”

The campaign aims to create a network of one million Dementia Friends across England by 2015. As part of the campaign, adverts will appear on TV and online from 7 May 2014.

For further information on the campaign and how to become a Dementia Friend, please visit http://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/

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York Council website visitor numbers

The York Council has relased details of the number of unique visitors it has had to its website over the last year.

  • March 2013 – 139,196
  • April 2013 – 142,311
  • May 2013 – 142,312
  • June 2013 – 132,066
  • July 2013 – 143,071
  • August 2013 – 140,733
  • September 2013 – 144,254
  • October 2013 – 154,055
  • November 2013 – 141,635
  • December 2013 – 124,385
  • January 2014 – 154,711
  • February 2014 – 143,221

The Councils spends around £5000 a year on hosting and maintenance fees for its website.