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ABetterU Workforce Development Programme

Looking back on 2024

'A Better U' is a modular training programme designed to promote and support a healthy lifestyle as a preventive approach to common public health topics. It empowers professionals and volunteers who work in South Tyneside, by enhancing...

South Tyneside Social Prescribing Team

Looking back on 2024

Over the last 12 months more than 5,500 people have been introduced to us from more than 60 different partners. 71% are living in households in IMD 1 and 2, and 97% in IMD 1 to 4. More than two thirds of the people we worked with had low leves of...

Launching 'Ten Public Health Tips for the Social Care Workforce'

First Contact Clinical collaborate with DHSC and RSPH

The Department of Healthy and Social Care (DHSC), in collaboration with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and key stakeholders, has launched a groundbreaking eLearning resource designed to empower social care frontline workers and...

Social Prescribing leads to substantial reductions in NHS use and costs

Avoidable GP appointments and A&E attendances

The National Academy of Social Prescribing higlights that social prescribing services can lead to substantial reductions in avoidable GP appointments and A&E attendances. NASP recommends that social prescribing continues to be...

Healthy Homes Newsletter

What is the aim of the scheme? Cold, damp homes are linked to ill health, lost school days and even early deaths. Low household income, poor heating or insulation and high energy costs contribute to fuel poverty. There are older, colder homes...