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In June 2008 a series of three expert hearings, or discursive workshops, were held at Carnegie Headingley Stadium at which a range of speakers presented evidence from their own experience to an inquiry panel and a public audience. Invited experts came from around the country and represented NHS, local authority, voluntary and third sector stakeholders and a range of perspectives including academics, practitioners supporting lay workers, commissioners and lay people. Speakers were asked to address two of the following four questions, aimed at generating debate around the ‘thornier’ issues relating to lay involvement in public health:
A summary of the report can be downloaded here, Accompanying Powerpoint presentations and external links are available below. NICE Guidance on Community Engagement Springhead Tenants’ & Residents’ Association ‘Making Breastfeeding Fashionable’ Thornhill Health & Wellbeing Project, Southampton Health Communities Collaborative, South of Tyne and Wear June 13th 2008 The Community Health Educators Project Lay Health Trainers: Learning from the USA Practice Experience of Involving People in Public Health Volunteer Tutors and the Expert Patients Programme Making Public Health & Health Promotion Everyone’s Business Commissioning for Health and Well-being A Long-term and Strategic Investment: Hull PCT
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Diane Lowcock |
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