Minding the Gap News Brief No6

							Welcome to Minding the Gap News brief 6                                                                              26 April 2012


Dear Councillor Beck

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Minding the Gap news Brief of the Yorkshire and Humber Health
Inequalities programme. In case you missed earlier editions they can be found on our web-site here.

Mental health and homelessness: planning and delivering mental health services for homeless people
This briefing sets out the policy context around tackling homelessness and addressing the mental health needs of homeless people.
It also examines what considerations need to be made when planning, designing and delivering mental health services for homeless
people and highlights examples of good practice.

Briefing
NHS Confederation - publications



An Independent Review on Fuel Poverty Final Report Published
An independent report has been published today advising the government how it could best tackle the problem of fuel poverty.
The latest official fuel poverty figures show 4m households in England in fuel poverty, compared to 1.2m in 2004.
Professor John Hills of the London School of Economics started his research in March last year looking at the definition of fuel
poverty, targets, and the effectiveness of different policy interventions.

Report


Personalisation: lessons from social care
This report looks at the challenges of quality and funding for the adult social care sector and the need for change in the way we
fund, manage and deliver social care. Alongside this it looks at the focus on direct payments and personal budgets and concludes
that the success of the personalisation agenda in future will depend upon the nature of future supply and demand for public
services.

Report
RSA - publications



Event
Can Your JSNA pass the Marmot test?
Invitation to a Yorkshire and Humber PHO and Minding the Gap Conference

Venue: Cedar Court Hotel, Wakefield
Time: 9:30 – 3:00
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Date: 17 May 2012

You are warmly invited to join us the above mentioned conference which will provide an opportunity to explore what the new
enhanced JSNA will need to do in order to contribute to a stronger focus on the social determinants of health.

The event will include a number of short presentations, roundtable discussions and workshops. The discussions will feature a range
of senior participants including Professor Jamie Pearce - School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh, Dr Mike Grady - Institute
of Health Equity (formerly the Marmot team) and Joanne Roney OBE - Chief Executive Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.

The audience will consist of key representatives from local government, the NHS, academia and the voluntary sector.

If you would like to attend please request a Booking Form by replying to this message.

Please Click for Cedar Court Hotel location information.

Ian Copley
Project Officer
Minding the Gap
Joint Public Health Unit
82 Batley Road
Wakefield
WF2 0AE

Tel: 01924 305632
E-mail: icopley@wakefield.gov.uk




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Minding the Gap
Joint Public Health Unit
82 Batley Road
Wakefield
WF2 0AE

Tel: 01924 305632
E-mail: icopley@wakefield.gov.uk