Marc Davies

Public Health | Doctor | Climate Change | One Health | Health Equity | #healthyclimate | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Marc Davies @marcdavies27]

@Philvet123 @PrysorWilliams @philip_skuce @FarmingConnect Bydd y sesiynau ar gael wthnos nesa

[Prysor Williams @PrysorWilliams]

Tomorrow, I'll be Chairing a Wales Climate Week session, "A One Health approach to climate change" with @philip_skuce, @FarmingConnect, and Swansea Bay University Healthboard, on the impacts of climate change on crops, livestock + people. Join us @ 13:30: https://t.co/M0of0gsOSq

[Marc Davies @marcdavies27]

@PrysorWilliams @philip_skuce @FarmingConnect Diolch am gadeirio a’r sgwrs diddorol

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

New national suicide figures are published today in a series of reports.

Headline message from @ONS is a rise in 2023, the highest rate since 1999.

But, taken together, the reports tell a more complex story. Short 🧵

[Swansea Bay NHS @SwanseabayNHS]

🥬 A project growing crops on Swansea Bay UHB land has delivered its first veg box, starting the journey towards its long-term aim to supply Morriston Hospital with produce. 🥕

👉 https://t.co/48lZL1H6Zd

[Cormac Russell @CormacRussell]

Siân Brand asked me to share three ideas for the NHS to enhance its health and well-being goals. The main point is that "Health" cannot be achieved by a clinician alone without thriving communities.

1. Health and well-being depend on social connectedness, economic and environmental security, and social justice principles. It's important to recognize the human need for choice, control, learning, and creating new things for ourselves and our communities.

My first recommendation is to stop seeing communities as groups of sick people and instead, view them as health-creating entities. Find ways to support communities in discovering, connecting, and mobilizing their own health-creating capacities. Supplement those capacities; stop supplanting them. Currently, many NHS trusts are oblivious to all the ways they are harming community health creation. First do no harm.

2. The What Works Centre for Wellbeing (UK) highlights that community well-being is influenced by factors such as neighborhood belonging, community cohesion, and community control.

My second recommendation is to focus on neighborhoods as primary sites for health, moving resources out of institutional silos and investing in community alternatives instead of costly and often ineffective interventions that solely address sickness. Social Prescribing alone is not enough. Liberate resources and push them upstream into small local CIC who can act as imbedded intermediaries, located in and trusted by their local communities. They are best placed to animate local
Community well-being, with support. Remember you (the NHS) will not engage communities until you first enable community to be built from inside out. Modern life is shredding our social fabric. We much tend to the rip and to issues of poverty and inequity.

3. Yishun Health in Singapore has transformed its health approach through an asset-based community development strategy, involving residents in health-creating activities of their own choice.

My third recommendation is to study Yishun Health's population health strategy, which aligns with Singapore's "3 beyonds" national strategy: Beyond Healthcare to Health, Beyond Hospitals to Communities, and Beyond Quality to Value. I would add a fourth beyond: from sickness to well-being and fairness, as there can be no well-being without fairness, as Prilleltensky Isaac reminds us.

In my humble opinion, the above recommendations have a good chance of freeing up the resources needed to implement proportionate universalism, as described by Sir Michael Marmot. Perhaps more importantly, it will be experienced as genuine solidarity, not charity, by communities that have been left to languish due to a top-down institutional promissory note that has been bouncing across all party lines for four decades in the UK.

[The Sutton Trust @suttontrust]

🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet.

This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945 🧵👇

[Marc Davies @marcdavies27]

@emily_marchant @H_SwanseaBay @SwanseabayNHS

[Marc Davies @marcdavies27]

@SBGreenGroup @GreenHWales

[NHS Forest @NHSForest]

We're excited to share our line up for the NHS Forest conference this week and delighted that Will Beasley from Cae Felin CSA and @SwanseabayNHS will be one of our speakers. Find out more: https://t.co/uNOvp6wMcy

[SwanseaBayGreenGroup @SBGreenGroup]

Great representation from @SwanseabayNHS 👍
Fantastic work from our very own @HayleyBeharrell

[Transport & Health Integrated research NetworK @TransportHealth]

Do take a look at this interesting consultancy opportunity. Deadline 15th June to apply! You can download the file on our news page https://t.co/OKsnLAYodt @lucyrbaker @charliemuss @GDLSarahJones

[Marc Davies @marcdavies27]

@speedikins @SBGreenGroup Diolch / thank you for taking your time to join us and share this. Really interesting and lots of useful guidance on how to put this into action

[Marc Davies @marcdavies27]

@SBGreenGroup @GreenHWales @ClimateCymru

[UK Health Alliance on Climate Change @UKHealthClimate]

Health leaders appeal to party candidates to prioritise the environment, health, and health and care services
https://t.co/uZwVQjnD8I @Richard56

[Faculty of Public Health @FPH]

The Faculty of Public Health is setting out a new “Vision for the Public’s Health.”

50 pragmatic, evidence-informed recommendations for Government to improve health and tackle inequalities.

Read here ➡️ https://t.co/hwhunA7UBT

#FPHVisionForHealth

https://t.co/dHnbdhzVdD

[Marc Davies @marcdavies27]

@SBGreenGroup @GreenHWales @HayleyBeharrell Thanks as well to @elanagwen for bringing it all together and @brennan_fiona for your updates- nice to share learning across Wales

[Amanda Davies @amandajdavies10]

"Wales needs to take food seriously & have a plan for feeding the population"

#CaeFelin #CSA @SwanseabayNHS delighted to welcome @derekwalker_ & members of @futuregencymru team today as he calls for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 to have a long term national food strategy.
👇🏻
https://t.co/FqujSuzADo

[Swansea Bay NHS @SwanseabayNHS]

🥬 A former carpenter is rebuilding his life after a serious accident by getting hands-on at a community farm near Morriston Hospital. 🥕
👇
https://t.co/JLBtdN2u44

[Future Gen Cymru @futuregencymru]

#CymruCan ensure everyone in Wales has the building blocks of access to good health. ❤️‍🩹

We are pleased to announce a new resource in collaboration with @PublicHealthW. 12 methods and tools, 14 case study examples, tips, ideas and more!

Find out more: https://t.co/3iAnUutjDi

[Jim McManus OCDS,FFPH Views my own @jimmcmanusph]

Great issue of @psychmag from @BPSOfficial with a focus on #Swansea and papers from @UWTSD and @SwanseaUni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. https://t.co/fZaKO1SBFe.

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

WHO: civilians, patients, and health workers in #Gaza spend night in darkness and fear

During a night of intense bombardment and ground incursions in Gaza, with reports of hostilities still continuing, health workers, patients and civilians have been subject to a total communication and electrical blackout.

WHO reiterates its calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, and reminds all parties to the conflict to take all precautions to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. This includes health workers, patients, health facilities and ambulances, and civilians who are sheltering in these facilities. Active measures must be taken to ensure they are not harmed and safe passage provided for the movement of desperately needed medical supplies, fuel, water and food into and across Gaza.

Reports of bombardment near the Indonesia and Al Shifa hospitals are gravely concerning. WHO reiterates that it is impossible to evacuate patients without endangering their lives. Hospitals across Gaza are already operating at maximum capacity due to the injuries sustained in weeks of unrelenting bombardment, and are unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number of patients, while sheltering thousands of civilians.

Health workers who have stayed by their patients’ sides face dwindling supplies, with no place to put new patients, and no means to alleviate their patients’ pain. There are more wounded every hour. But ambulances cannot reach them in the communications blackout. Morgues are full. More than half of the dead are women and children.

WHO has not been able to communicate with its staff in Gaza, nor have other agencies. Furthermore, WHO is trying to gather information on the overall impact on civilians and health care.

WHO appeals to the humanity in all those who have the power to do so to end the fighting now, in line with the UN resolution adopted yesterday, calling for a humanitarian truce, as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all civilians held captive.