10 Minute Shake Up comes to York
Change4Life and Disney are partnering on a major new campaign – 10 Minute Shake Up – to help encourage the city’s children to get active this summer.
The 10 Minute Shake Up campaign uses a bit of Disney magic to inspire children to reach the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity per day, with fun, manageable 10 minute bursts of exercise with an aim of getting children across the country moving for an extra 100 million minutes this summer.
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CCG invite public to get involved in shaping local health care
Patients and members of the public are invited to NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG’s) next Patient and Public Engagement Forum in York.
Full details as follows:
Where: Friargate Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL
When: Wednesday 9 July, 6pm
The event is an invitation for patients and members of the public to be part of the conversation with the CCG and local authority representatives about Health and Social Care service delivery with a particular focus on urgent care in the area.
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Questions being raised about Social Care management in York
Following the sacking of the responsible Cabinet member (Cllr Simpson Laing) a few weeks ago we understand other changes are afoot in the York Councils Health and Social Care Department.
The Department has been struggling to manage its budget during the last 3 years and now we understand that two senior managers are leaving the Authority.
No doubt the Councils auditors will be taking an interest in the behind the scenes activities but it is a shame that the Councils “scrutiny” process has proved to be so ineffective.
It is there that problems of this sort should be nipped in the bud.
Hopefully the more vulnerable of York’s residents will not be the real victims of this emerging scandal.
Alcohol diversion programme starts in York
The first programme to be run by City of York Council for people arrested while drunk and disorderly in the city, will start up this week to help bring about lasting change in people’s attitude to alcohol and its impact.
Recommended by the council’s cross-party Scrutiny Committee, the pilot programme is funded by the council’s public health budget and will be monitored by the Safer York Partnership, the city-wide AVANTE partnership and by the University of York, for its 18-month duration.
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Food inspection scores for York care homes revealed
Details of the scores given to 5 care homes in the York area have been published.
Each home received a score of between 0 and 2 (the lower the score the worse the result).
Details for each can be downloaded by clicking the name of the home
Barstow House (Rating 1)
Meadowfields (Rating 2)
Somerset House (Rating 2)
Lamal Beeches (Rating 2)
Red Lodge (Rating 1)
Scores for the (vast majority) of homes that scored over 2 have not been listed by the Council.
Community Medical Unit for city centre
Photo Credit: The Press, York
A new arrangement between City of York Council’s Safer York Partnership (SYP), Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) and Street Angels is set to give weekend support and assistance for people needing help in the evening in the city centre.
The ambulance service’s Community Medical Unit (CMU) and volunteers from Street Angels will be offering help to people in St Helen’s Square on Friday and Saturday nights as well as on race days.
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Road Safety Event in York on the 9th June
UK Road Safety Week, runs from the 9- 15 June 2014, with an event in Parliament Square, York, on the 9th June.
The event in York is being supported by 95 Alive, the York and North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership, City of York Council, North Yorkshire County Council, North Yorkshire Police, CFOA and the Mineral Products Association.
MP for Scarborough and Whitby and Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Department for Transport, Robert Goodwill,will be attending as will Dave Etheridge, Road Safety Lead for CFOA and Honor Byford, Chair of Road Safety GB.
York Council compensation claims hit record high
Employees at the Council in York were awarded a record high £140,495 in compensation last year.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the amount was shared between 5 employees.
The council says that a further 5 claims were rejected.
The main causes for claims were “ slips/trips/falls and manual handling”
The previous high came in 2010/11 when 7 employees were awarded £104,596 in compensation.
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.”