Hywel Dda Health Board staff help improve health and wellbeing
Press release from the Hywel Dda Health Board -
Hywel Dda Health Board is committed to improving life expectancy and quality of life for our population.
Projects which have helped the Health Board with its pledge to increase life expectancy by three years in the areas with the lowest life expectancy have been short listed for in the Improving Health and Wellbeing in the Best of Health Staff Awards.
These awards recognise and reward staff who go above and beyond the call of duty in their day-to-day work, as well as demonstrating a significant contribution to the health and wellbeing of others and addressing inequalities.
The three finalists are:
Hywel Dda Public Health Wales Team and Hywel Dda Health Board Communication Team Both these teams have carried out a number of initiatives to support individuals to promote healthy living. Working together in 2013, they launched a new bilingual online healthy living resource centre ‘Hywel’s House/Ty Hywel (www.hywelddahb.wales.nhs.uk/healthy-wednesday) and a booklet to provide staff with a practical toolkit to support patients in making lifestyle changes. Teresa Owen, Hywel Dda Director of Public Health said “Equipping our staff and colleagues with the confidence, knowledge and skills to consider their own health and wellbeing, as well as supporting them to assist others in making lifestyle changes, is a vital function of the Health Board. We all must do more to ‘make every contact count’ in our daily interactions with the population to prevent disease and improving health and wellbeing”.
Prince’s Trust Programme Facilitators, Leadership Education & Development Team ‘Get into Health with Hywel Dda’ is a collaborative programme between the Prince’s Trust and Hywel Dda Health Board which offers intensive training and experience in the health sector to a particularly disadvantaged group of young people aged between 18 and 25. The team of programme facilitators have been shortlisted for their part in helping change the lives of young people across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, building social capital and wellbeing through opportunity, confidence and employment.
Measles Outbreak 2013 Response Team The measles outbreak response team have been shortlisted for their dedication in dealing with the control and prevention of the spread of measles during the outbreak in spring 2013. Representatives from the school nursing service, primary care, the communication and vaccination teams joined together to support the endeavour with a clear ‘can do’ attitude, with the focus always on the needs of our local community. There were many others involved in helping to increase the number of vaccinated individuals and Consultant in Public Health, Dr Lyn Harris paid tribute to them all: “Without everyone pulling together as one big team our response to the measles outbreak would not have been as effective and efficient as it was”.
Winners will be announced in January 2014, when the Chief Executive will also announce his winner for overall best entry.
Director of Workforce and Organisational Development Janet Wilkinson said: "These awards give an opportunity to recognise and praise just a few of the many staff and volunteers who contribute greatly to delivering better healthcare services for our patients. We had a record number of entries this year and I would like to thank everyone who took the time to submit a nomination. Good luck to all our finalists".
Health Shield, a UK leading provider of health cash plans and a non profit making friendly society, are the major sponsor for our Best of Health Staff Awards; thanks to them we will be able to host an awards ceremony in January to celebrate our stars of local health.
Jonathan Burton, Health Shield Chief Executive said: “Myself, and the team at Health Shield, would like to offer our huge congratulations to all who have been shortlisted for the Hywel Dda Best of Health Staff Awards. It is such a fantastic achievement to have got to this stage so well done to one and all.
“We are pleased to be supporting these awards and whilst all those who were nominated are already winners, we would like to wish everyone who has made it to this next stage the best of luck.”
Projects which have helped the Health Board with its pledge to increase life expectancy by three years in the areas with the lowest life expectancy have been short listed for in the Improving Health and Wellbeing in the Best of Health Staff Awards.
These awards recognise and reward staff who go above and beyond the call of duty in their day-to-day work, as well as demonstrating a significant contribution to the health and wellbeing of others and addressing inequalities.
The three finalists are:
Hywel Dda Public Health Wales Team and Hywel Dda Health Board Communication Team Both these teams have carried out a number of initiatives to support individuals to promote healthy living. Working together in 2013, they launched a new bilingual online healthy living resource centre ‘Hywel’s House/Ty Hywel (www.hywelddahb.wales.nhs.uk/healthy-wednesday) and a booklet to provide staff with a practical toolkit to support patients in making lifestyle changes. Teresa Owen, Hywel Dda Director of Public Health said “Equipping our staff and colleagues with the confidence, knowledge and skills to consider their own health and wellbeing, as well as supporting them to assist others in making lifestyle changes, is a vital function of the Health Board. We all must do more to ‘make every contact count’ in our daily interactions with the population to prevent disease and improving health and wellbeing”.
Prince’s Trust Programme Facilitators, Leadership Education & Development Team ‘Get into Health with Hywel Dda’ is a collaborative programme between the Prince’s Trust and Hywel Dda Health Board which offers intensive training and experience in the health sector to a particularly disadvantaged group of young people aged between 18 and 25. The team of programme facilitators have been shortlisted for their part in helping change the lives of young people across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, building social capital and wellbeing through opportunity, confidence and employment.
Measles Outbreak 2013 Response Team The measles outbreak response team have been shortlisted for their dedication in dealing with the control and prevention of the spread of measles during the outbreak in spring 2013. Representatives from the school nursing service, primary care, the communication and vaccination teams joined together to support the endeavour with a clear ‘can do’ attitude, with the focus always on the needs of our local community. There were many others involved in helping to increase the number of vaccinated individuals and Consultant in Public Health, Dr Lyn Harris paid tribute to them all: “Without everyone pulling together as one big team our response to the measles outbreak would not have been as effective and efficient as it was”.
Winners will be announced in January 2014, when the Chief Executive will also announce his winner for overall best entry.
Director of Workforce and Organisational Development Janet Wilkinson said: "These awards give an opportunity to recognise and praise just a few of the many staff and volunteers who contribute greatly to delivering better healthcare services for our patients. We had a record number of entries this year and I would like to thank everyone who took the time to submit a nomination. Good luck to all our finalists".
Health Shield, a UK leading provider of health cash plans and a non profit making friendly society, are the major sponsor for our Best of Health Staff Awards; thanks to them we will be able to host an awards ceremony in January to celebrate our stars of local health.
Jonathan Burton, Health Shield Chief Executive said: “Myself, and the team at Health Shield, would like to offer our huge congratulations to all who have been shortlisted for the Hywel Dda Best of Health Staff Awards. It is such a fantastic achievement to have got to this stage so well done to one and all.
“We are pleased to be supporting these awards and whilst all those who were nominated are already winners, we would like to wish everyone who has made it to this next stage the best of luck.”
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