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PHIRST Local Authority Interventions - Minutes July 2020

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Published: 07 August 2020

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Meeting

Public Health Research Programme - PHIRST Local Authority Intervention ranking

Date

Wednesday 1 July 2020 10:00-12:00

Place

Virtual meeting

Present

Peymane Adab (Chair)

Sub-committee members
Becky Wilkinson (Prioritisation Committee)
Susan Hamilton (Prioritisation Committee)
Julie Bishop (Prioritisation Committee)
Brian Ferguson (NIHR PHR Director)

Secretariat 

Claire Kidgell
Helen Walters
Hannah Dorling
Louise Higgs
Bernie Newitt
Zoe McCrossan
Gemma House (Apologies)

Apologies 

Dorothy May (PPI) – ratified decisions after the meeting.

Agenda Items

  1. Hertfordshire Behavioural Science Support Team.
    (Hertfordshire County Council)

  2. Free universal breakfast club and secondary school meals.
    (London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)

  3. One Small Step - Devon Healthy Lifestyles service.
    (Devon County Council)

  4. New models of remote delivery, in drug and alcohol services,
    introduced during Covid-19. (Forward Leeds)

  5. Healthy Weight Tayside: Where children, young people and families can eat well, drink well and be active’. (Tayside Regional Improvement Collaborative (TRIC))

  6. Improving outcomes for people bereaved or affected by suicide: evaluating the effectiveness of Postvention intervention in preventing suicide among men.
    (Hull City Council)

  7. Bristol One City.
    (Bristol City Council)

  8. One You South Gloucestershire (OYSG).
    (South Gloucestershire Council)

  9. H.E.N (Health Exercise Nutrition in Pregnancy).
    (North Somerset Council)

  10. East Sussex Whole System Healthy Weight plan.
    (East Sussex County Council)Sport

  11. England Local Delivery Pilot – Slimming World theme.
    (Public Health South Tees and Slimming World)

  12. Essex Coronavirus Action Support (ECAS), Essex Welfare Service (EWS).
    (Essex Coronavirus Action Support)

  13. South Gloucestershire COVID19 Public Spaces Management.
    (South Gloucestershire Council)

  14. Evaluating the adaptation of delivery of the National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) to a virtual platform as a result of COVID-19. (Welsh Local Government Association)
    Conflicts – Julie Bishop (remained in the meeting but did not vote or contribute to the discussion)

  15. East Sussex Healthy Workplace Programme.
    (East Sussex County Council Public Health)

  16. Whole Systems Approach to Diet and Healthy Weight – Community Pilot Project.
    (East of Scotland – Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Remission Programme)

  17. Mindset for Resilience, Health and Wellbeing.
    (Dundee City Council and Winning Scotland Foundation)

  18. Reducing exposure to foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS).
    (Yorkshire and Humber Association of Directors of Public Health (Y&HADPH))

  19. No One Left Behind – Fife.
    (Fife Council, NHS Fife and Fife Voluntary Action)

  20. Improving outcomes for patients with substance misuse co-occurring with mental illness in west Kent. (Kent County Council Public Health)

  21. Medway Health Check Outreach Programme.
    (Medway Council: Public Health)

 

Outcomes table

The PHR Sub-Committee recommended the following to be offered to PHIRST teams.

 Organisation Project Title
Fife Council, NHS Fife and Fife Voluntary Action No One Left Behind – Fife
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) Free universal breakfast club and secondary school meals
Forward Leeds New models of remote delivery, in drug and alcohol services, introduced during Covid-19
Yorkshire and Humber Association of Directors of Public Health (Y&HADPH) Reducing exposure to foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS).

The PHR Sub-Committee recommended the following to be offered to PHIRST teams (second group).

OrganisationProject Title
Essex Coronavirus Action Support

 Essex Coronavirus Action Support (ECAS), Essex Welfare Service (EWS)
South Gloucestershire Council

 South Gloucestershire COVID19 Public Spaces Management
 Welsh Local Government Association

 Evaluating the adaptation of delivery of the National Exercise Referral Scheme (NERS) to a virtual platform as a result of COVID-19
Dundee City Council and Winning Scotland Foundation  Mindset for Resilience, Health and Wellbeing

 The PHR Sub-Committee recommended that the following be put on a reserve list:

OrganisationProject Title
Tayside Regional Improvement Collaborative (TRIC)

Healthy Weight Tayside: Where children, young people and families can eat well, drink well and be active’
Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire Behavioural Science Support Team
Hull City Council

Improving outcomes for people bereaved or affected by suicide: evaluating the effectiveness of Postvention intervention in preventing suicide among men.

East of Scotland – Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Remission Programme
Whole Systems Approach to Diet and Healthy Weight – Community Pilot Project