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National Support Team (NST) Archive
The following categories are covered:- . Alcohol Harm Reduction • Childhood Obesity • Health Inequalities • Infant Mortality • Response to Sexual Violence (England and Wales) • Sexual Health • Teenage Pregnancy • Tobacco Control • Vaccination and Immunisation • Children and Young Peoples' Psychological Wellbeing and Mental Health.
Nutritionist Resource
NHS Local
Health Indicators for School Age Children
A database of Health Indicators for School Age Children - created September 2010 by the Regional Healthy Schools Co-ordinator and West Midlands Public Health Observatory.
National Obesity Observatory
South West Public Health Observatory's information network and evidence base for the South West region.
Environment & Health: Action Plan
Environment and Health: Action Plan
Cycle Shrewsbury Website
Cycle Shrewsbury Website
Food Standards Agency
Changes to the Food Standards Agency (20.7.10)
The South West's Healthy Weight for Children Hub
Annual Evidence Update - Childhood Obesity: Surveillance & Prevention
The Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on ‘Childhood Obesity: Surveillance and Prevention’has now been updated for 2010. The AEU presents expert opinion, supported by a summary of high quality recent research evidence and relevant public documents, published since the last update in 2009. It is available from NHS Evidence’s Public Health Specialist Collection (formerly the National Library for Public Health). http://www.library.nhs.uk/PUBLICHEALTH/ViewResource.aspx?resID=346750
Healthy Towns Webpage
The website of Dudley's Healthy Town.
Change4Life national website
Change4Life national website
Play England website
Play England website
Birmingham East & North PCT Obesity Website
Birmingham East & North PCT's Obesity website
Coventry's Obesity Pages
Coventry's Obesity web pages.
Herefordshire PCT's obesity website
Herefordshire PCT's obesity website
Sandwell NHS Obesity Webpages
Sandwell NHS Obesity Webpages
Shropshire's Obesity Webpages
Shropshire's obesity webpages
Solihull Care Trust Obesity Webpages
Solihull Care Trust's Obesity Webpages
South Birmingham PCT Website (go to Your Health)
Link to South Birmingham PCT's obesity website - choose Your Health.
South Staffordshire PCT's Obesity Webpages
South Staffordshire PCT's Obesity Webpages
Staffordshire County Council Obesity Webpages
Staffordshire County Council Obesity Webpages
Stoke's Obesity Webpages
Stoke's Obesity Webpages
Telford & Wrekin's Obesity Webpages
Telford & Wrekin's Obesity Webpages
Walsal NHS Improving Health and Care For Life Website
Walsall NHS Improving Health and Care for Life Website
Walsall MBC's obesity website
Walsall MBC's obesity website
Warwickshire's Obesity Web Pages
Warwickshire's Obesity Web Pages
Wolverhampton PCT's obesity pages
Wolverhampton PCT's obesity pages (go to healthy city and then food health or adult weight management support)
Worcestershire PCT - Food website
Worcestershire PCT - Food website
Worcestershire's NHS Website's diet & nutrition page.
Worcestershire's NHS website's diet & nutrition page.
Living Well West Midlands
Living Well West Midlands is a BIG Lottery funded programme, supported by the West Midlands Regional Assembly delivering 29 innovative health and wellbeing projects across 14 West Midlands locations. Through a strong partnership of public, voluntary and private sector organisations Living Well West Midlands will encourage people to take part in exercise and healthy eating that can help improve their physical and mental well-being no matter what the age.
Learning Difficulties - Feel Good Food
Feel Good Food is a healthy eating box scheme created from an original idea by Connections Day Services. Through partnership working and consultation with people with learning difficulties we developed the project which is now up and running in Bath and North East Somerset.
National Obesity Observatory
The National Obesity Observatory was established to provide a single point of contact for wide-ranging authoritative information on data and evidence related to obesity, overweight, underweight and their determinants.
This specialist observatory is a member of the Association of Public Health Observatories and is sited alongside the South East Public Health Observatory. The National Obesity Observatory works closely with a wide range of organisations and provides support to policy makers and practitioners involved in obesity and related issues.
National Social Marketing Centre (NSMC)
The National Social Marketing Centre which supports the Change4Life methodology has resources, documents and presentations that are available from their site.
Obesity Learning Centre
This website aims to share best practice, and to provide links to information, training and data on obesity. It has been developed to support people who work, either directly or indirectly, on promoting a healthy weight and tackling obesity.