• The Vascular Check Programme
• Identification  by GPs of those at most risk of cardiovascular diseases – Using computer software to help recognise those at highest risk
• Drug therapy to help assist people with weight management – the role of community pharmacists
• Importance of primary care practitioners to advise on diet and exercise to reduce risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
• Educating people better on how to access their own health – better understanding of BMI
• Main challenges for GPs in the preventive health agenda
• Better access to surgeries for patients – longer opening hours – 7 days a week

NHS Health Check - Challenges to Delivery

Dr. Steve Ohlsen, Project Manager for Vascular Health Checks, Inverness Medical UK (CONFIRMED)

Case Study: East Lothian Council – An ‘Equally Well’ Test Site

• Local implementation of the Equally Well Programme
• Promote equality and eliminate discrimination in service provision
• Support from the Start Scheme
• The importance of community engagement in tackling health inequalities – listening to the needs of the community
• Service redesign – ensuring health benefits are spread to all
• Targeting families most at risk of poor health and providing effective support
• Creating child friendly environments – supporting parents to help raise their children in a healthy environment

• The role of schools in educating children on sexual health -  the case for the increased role of the school nurse
• The commissioning of services by PCTs and Local Authorities to do more locally
• Providing good advice to people in order to stop the spread of STDs/STIs.
• Giving people enough information to make informed choices about sex
• Eliminating the taboo of talking about personal sexual health
• How can the UK learn from other countries on how best to promote sexual health

• Social marketing as an effective campaign tool - Change4Life campaign – 6 months on
• Tackling obesity to help prevent onset of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in later life
• Working with private sector to create the infrastructure to help people get healthier through exercise
• Tackling inequalities – working with the private sector to offer healthy food at affordable prices for all
• How Local Authorities are promoting active living to stay healthy through social marketing
• Tackling Alcohol and Smoking health issues in the UK

Jeff French, Executive Director, National Social Marketing Centre (CONFIRMED)

 Seminars

A series of six seminars will run including topics such as:

• The use of new technologies to help screen serious conditions earlier
• Private healthcare as way of speeding up treatment
• Health and Wellbeing in the workplace
• One stop shops to deal with all health issues
• Indoor and outdoor physical activity as a way of tackling obesity
• The role of pharmaceutical companies in researching new medicines
• Promoting preventive strategies for elderly people
• The case for complementary and alternative medicines
• Health strategies for all – helping low income families obtain first class healthcare
• Travel immunisation – giving people the information they need
• Empowering patients – giving them more choice and information
• Commissioning of services locally to improve healthcare
• Good hygiene practices in the home helping people to stay healthy
• Healthy schools – healthy children
• Investment in curing cancer
• Improving sexual health education
• Information and communication technology in mental health
• Telehealth – monitoring illnesses from home
• The role of community pharmicists in prevention

Keynote Address: The Preventive Health Agenda in Primary Care

• Increasing the role of primary care providers to help them diagnose and prevent serious conditions earlier
• Creating a healthcare system that helps people stay healthy – improving health as well as treating illness
• The Health Bill 2009
• NHS Constitution - Personal planning for patients – providing more information and choice
• NHS Life Checks – helping people manage their own health

Dr. David Colin-Thomé, National Director for Primary Care (CONFIRMED)

My Action to prevent heart attacks and strokes

• Saving money by preventing hospital admissions
• Demonstrating action in response to local and national policies
• Contributing to tackling health inequalities
• Covering all elements of care relating to improving lifestyles (smoking, diet and physical activity) and managing risk factors
• Include primary care, secondary care and local authority providers

Professor David Wood, Garfield Weston Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (CONFIRMED)

• The progress of the Cancer Reform Strategy – where are we now?
• NHS National Cancer Screening Programmes – breast cancer, cervical cancer & bowel cancer checks
• Raising public awareness and promoting early presentation of cancer symptoms
• Prevention of lifestyle cancers caused by smoking, poor diet and UV exposure
• Shortening the time for screening tests and encouraging uptake
• Effective commissioning of wellbeing and prevention services by PCTs in partnership with Local Authorities
• Earlier cancer diagnosis through improved training of GPs
• Tackling health inequalities – access to effective cancer prevention services for all
• Investment in digital mammography to screen for breast cancer effectively
• Access to cost effective drugs
• Encouraging the uptake of cervical screening – Should England lower the age of the first smear test from 25 to 20?

• Increasing the uptake of the MMR vaccine – protecting our children
• Learning from other countries on how best to eradicate measles from the UK
• Educating parents to understand the importance of the MMR vaccine
• Increasing the role of local authorities, PCTs and GPs to help with the ‘catch up’ programme – making sure all children are vaccinated
• Working with the private sector to research and develop new vaccines to fight against MMR and other diseases
• The role of social marketing in increasing the take up of the MMR vaccine
• The importance of immunisation in preventing a flu pandemic

Dr Mary Ramsay, Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency (CONFIRMED)

• Detaching the stigma from mental health disorders – giving it the attention it deserves
• Delivering race equality in mental health – 5 Year Plan
• The role and aims of the newly formed National Mental Health Development Unit
• Addressing the effects of the current economic downturn on our mental health – how is the government helping people to get through the tough times
• Dementia – The National Dementia Strategy - raising awareness, early diagnosis and intervention and improving the quality of care
• The case for more training for GPs in order to detect signs of Dementia and Alzheimer’s earlier
• Helping people with mental health issues into employment
• Technological advances allowing doctors to assess how patients are progressing via mobile communications
• More focus on child and adolescent mental health issues
• The case for psychological therapies
• Suicide prevention
• The case of tele-healthcare solutions to empower those suffering from Dementia

• The link between alcohol & drug misuse leading to poor sexual health
• Early intervention and recognising of the signs of alcoholism and drug abuse
• Better access to drugs for patients that need them – the role of pharmaceutical companies in providing drugs at a affordable prices
• Preventive Health strategies for older people - the solution of telehealth
• The role of the employers in taking care of staff wellbeing – preventing sickness through stress
• The role of social marketing to help raise awareness in major public health issues

• Professor Alan Maryon – Davis, President, Faculty of Public Health (CONFIRMED)
• Dr. Catherine Swann, Associate Director, Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (CONFIRMED)
  
• Professor Jeff French, Director, National Social Marketing Centre (CONFIRMED)
  
• Professor David Wood, Garfield Weston Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (CONFIRMED)