From the Scottish Border down the NE coast to the NY Moors, across the North Pennines and Cheviot Hills, the ADPH Network NE are about improving health for all
More than 102,000 people have visited our support website since the launch of our #AlcoholisToxic campaign last Nov. If you are cutting down on alcohol https://t.co/8aFFSSQPvK has tips and advice, free apps like Drink Free Days and details for free local support services.
"Losing someone you love from smoking is hard." It’s National Grief Awareness Week - Debbie from Hartlepool lost her husband Denham to COPD caused by smoking. She misses him every day.
Debbie is encouraging people who smoke to quit for their families 🔽
Brilliant news that the second Reading of the #TobaccoAndVapesBill passed with such an overwhelming majority & with backing from politicians from all parties.
On to the committee stage next🤞🏻🚭
📢New report!
We show councils are working with range of community groups to reach vulnerable families as momentum grows to build fairer, more sustainable food system in one of England’s most historically deprived areas. https://t.co/oias1FSyNS
@UKSustain@ADPHNE@ImpUrbanHealth
1/Smoking and lung cancer survivor Cathy Hunt is appalled that female lung cancer rates are still rising around the globe. Cathy believes tobacco companies must pay a levy for quitting support /prevention to counter the profit made from addiction, disease & death.#SmokefreeFuture
1/ Our powerful and award winning #AlcoholisToxic campaign supported by @CRUK_Policy is running again.
Alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen which causes 7 types of cancer - including bowel and breast cancer. People have a right to know the risks 🔽
1/ Today, Balance launches "Reducing Alcohol Harm," a ground-breaking blueprint calling for urgent national action to reduce the rising impact of alcohol on health, social care, crime & disorder and the economy.
https://t.co/Xs50gQxGag
The landmark @IPPR report on Health and Prosperity is a compelling call to action. With regional health inequalities rising, a reminder alcohol and tobacco combined cost the North East a staggering £4 bn a year - £1.49 billion for alcohol
@ADPHNE@NENC_NHS@InstAlcStud@UK_AHA
1/ Today our award-winning Fresh programme is relaunching our #SmokingSurvivors campaign across the North East and North Cumbria showing the devastating harm of tobacco as told by the powerful stories of real people across the region @NENC_NHS@ADPHNE 🔽
Public Health Portfolio Lead (Public Mental Health and Ageing Well agendas)
Darlington Borough Council
Darlington
£44,428 - £47,420
Closes 01/09
https://t.co/SwiImYz11O
Research Assistant - Sport and Exercise Sciences (prehabilitation for cancer populations)
Durham University
Durham
£29,605
Closes 20/08
https://t.co/IRu4RqFE2e
PhD Studentship: Innovative Ways of Supporting Physical Activity Promotion and the Systems that Drive It
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
Closes 02/09
https://t.co/fHxjKABEDw
Reducing adult smoking – especially in our most disadvantaged communities – helps to also reduce youth smoking. Alongside Durham Youth Council we welcome the government’s plans to create a #SmokeFreeFuture 🔽
#SmokefreeUK@ADPHNE@NENC_NHS@AshOrgUK
Alcohol places a huge burden on the #NHS with around 980,000 hospital admissions every year. With waiting times at record levels and delays for cancer patients and others, it is vital more is done to protect our health and NHS.
What is our vision for a #SmokefreeFuture in the North East? What has Fresh done over the last 20 years? What’s been achieved through working together?
Watch our Director Ailsa Rutter OBE at our conference last Sept with @ADPHNE@OHID @NENE_NHS 🔽
https://t.co/hIX8sanslU