Public Health practitioner resources
- Healthy Homes
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Where we live is an important determinant of health. Housing is more than just a roof over your head. Having a home is essential to living a full life. The state of our home can have an impact on both our physical and mental health. Equally, our physical and mental health drives how we maintain a healthy home. We all need somewhere that is safe, secure and stable if we are to focus on our families, our jobs and our health.
Supporting individuals to stay safe at home is a responsibility for us all, whether we work in housing, health & social care or the voluntary sector. There’s a wide range of training resources available to help in our role.
A range of short videos have been produced to provide bitesize information on key topics. Your feedback is extremely valuable to us, let us know what you thought about these videos by completing this very short feedback form.
- Introduction to Healthy Homes
- What is Social Prescribing
- A guide to homelessness prevention
- Fuel Poverty and Hitting the Cold Spots service (coming soon)
- A guide to Disabled Facilities Grants
- Hampshire Fire and Rescue Safe and Well visits
Healthy Homes webinars
Join us for a more detailed look at the relationship between health and homes in Hampshire. A number of key leads from across the system have been working together under the direction of the Hampshire Health and Wellbeing Board and have used their subject matter expertise to produce these resources. This is based on feedback from the 2020 Healthy Homes Training and Development Survey, where you told us that you needed more information and guidance on a number of topics in order to provide the best support you can to individuals.
These short information sessions will help you to recognise the signs that someone may live in an unhealthy home, help you to be confident to raise the subject and know where to sign post the individual to.
- Webinar 1: Tuesday 15 February 2022: Money Matters
- Webinar 2: Wednesday 9 March 2022: Tackling Unhealthy Homes and Tenant Rights (All Tenures)
- Webinar 3: Tuesday 5 April 2022: Domestic Abuse. Session not recorded, see the Domestic Abuse Partnership for further training
- Webinar 4: Wednesday 11 May 2022: Antisocial behaviour. Sign up here
- Stop smoking
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Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, some of which have immediate effects that compromise the body’s ability to heal and increase the risks associated with anaesthesia.
In addition to the general health risks associated with smoking, a patient who smokes is also at a much greater risk of anaesthetic complications and surgical site infections. We encourage practitioners to make direct referrals to Stop Smoking services which offer an effective intervention to enable patients to stop smoking.- Stop smoking primary care pathway
- Stop smoking secondary care pathway
- Smokefreehampshire - making a referral - online form for professionals
- Weight management
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Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders and some cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon).
Hampshire has developed a primary care pathway for managing overweight and obesity from universal Services at Tier 1 to specialist bariatric Services in Tier 4. Tier 2 Weight Management Service for those with a BMI of 30+ (BMI 28+ and a co-morbidity that is adversely affected by their weight) is currently provided by Weight Watchers. Also POWeR, a new evidenced based online weight management programme is available free to all patients who want to lose weight and have a BMI of 25+.
- Weight management primary care pathway
- Weight management secondary care pathway
- Tier 2 referral form adult weight management (primary care)
- The Tier 2 weight management service has now been extended to cover 16-17 year olds. Eligibility is based on GP recommendation, eg if patient is at 95th centile or above for age + gender. Teenager Form needs to be completed by GP and given to patient.
- There is also a Weight Watchers service for pregnant women. To refer to this service please use this (pregnancy) referral form.
Tier 2 adult weight management service for pregnant women - To refer to this service please use this referral form
- Drugs and alcohol
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Excess alcohol consumption is the third highest risk factor for avoidable ill health in England (after smoking and obesity). In Hampshire around one in five adults drink more alcohol than the safe recommended levels.
- Health checks
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NHS Health Checks are for eligible 40-74 year olds to prevent or spot the early signs of serious cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and stroke. The NHS Health Check assesses circulatory and vascular health and the risk of getting such diseases.
Tailored advice is then provided to improve or maintain health to enjoy life for longer. There is a range of Hampshire guidance and resources available to aid your delivery of the programme.Guidance
Clinical System MIQUEST guidance
Letters and promotional materials
Performance
NHS Health Check - online training
- Hampshire Lifestyles Signposting Directory
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This directory has been produced to support practitioners and front line staff trained in Making Every Contact Count (MECC), who are engaging with healthy conversations.
- Mental Health
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This guide is to support your mental health and wellbeing. You will find helpful tips and links to a range of resources, including information on where to find specific support and urgent care if needed.
We have also developed specific mental health and wellbeing guides for staff and volunteers and managers working in the community.
Suicide prevention training for staff working in Hampshire.
Our mental health & wellbeing training offer aims to help staff and volunteers working in the community develop their skills and confidence in supporting others.
