Health & Wellbeing Ezine
The latest edition of our HSE Health and Wellbeing Ezine has been published. Click here to read articles on what’s been happening with Health and Wellbeing. Links to each article included below:
https://hsehealthandwellbeingnews.com/
· HSE Talking Health and Wellbeing Podcast Returns with a Back-to-School Special!
· Free Fussy Eating Webinar for Parents –Take the Fuss out of Fussy Eating
· Stop smoking medicines and how to use them to help people stop smoking
· A scoping study of available HIV data, services and support in the four fast track cities of Ireland
· HSE Receives €174,000 Grant from Arts and Health 2024 RENEW Budget
· Her Heart Matters: Know the Signs of Heart Attack
· Keep your Butts off Balbriggan Beach
Putting a focus on health enhancing physical activity
The RCSI welcomed the WHO and 450 delegates from across Europe to the annual HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) conference. It provided a platform to showcase Irish research and initiatives, as well as the opportunity hearing from other countries. From a HSE perspective HEPA included presentations on the Design of the Physical Activity Pathway in Healthcare Model, the Move More initiative in Cork as well as the Physical Activity for Health Officer pilot programme with Sport Ireland and the Walk and Talk programme in DSKWW.
The I-PARC conference last Wednesday afternoon was co-sponsored by HSE, and provided a forum for considering cross-sectoral collaboration for HEPA promotion in the context of the forthcoming National Physical Activity Framework and Action Plan for Ireland.
Further details about this conference are available here.
Updates from Tobacco Free Ireland:
Stop Smoking Medicines and How to use them to help people stop smoking
A new training course has been developed by the HSE Health and Wellbeing Tobacco Free Ireland Programme. The course aims to help you build the knowledge, skill and confidence to recommend and advise on stop smoking medicines. As a healthcare professional, you have a unique opportunity to promote recommended stop smoking care in routine, daily interactions with people who smoke. Each year in Ireland, over 4,500 people die due to smoking and each week in our hospitals, almost 1,000 admissions are smoking-related.
To support people to Quit, the HSE recommends that health professionals ask their service users if they smoke, recommend or prescribe Stop Smoking Medicines and refer them to HSE Stop Smoking Services for behavioural support as appropriate.
This online training course, Stop Smoking Medicines & How to Use Them is available on www.hseland.ie, and you can find it by searching for ‘Stop Smoking’ and it takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. Watch a short summary video here.
Stop Smoking Advisor Symposium
The TFI Programme will host our face to face Stop Smoking Advisor symposium on Wednesday 18 September in the Gibson Hotel, Point Square, North Wall, Dublin, D01 X2P2. The event will take place from 10:00 - 16:00.
As spaces are limited, we are asking that anyone interested in attending to please complete this short survey and you will be added to the registration list.
Speakers on the day include Dr. Carmen Regan, Consultant Obstetrician and Professor Eamon Keenan, National Clinical Lead, HSE Addiction Services. We will also be hosting a number of international colleagues from the Global Network of Tobacco Free Health Services at the event. Look forward to seeing you on the day.
The impact of the introduction of tobacco product plain packaging on consumer responses in Ireland: a real-world policy evaluation stratified by socioeconomic groups
The European Journal of Public Health has published a new paper on the impact of the introduction of tobacco product plain packaging in Ireland. This study was undertaken by colleagues in the HSE Tobacco Free Ireland programme, HSE Environmental Health and Department of Health.
Link to the full paper is here.
Ministers for Health publish the report on Public Consultation on Further Regulation of Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products
Last Friday, the Ministers for Health published a report on the Public Consultation on Further Regulation of Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products. The consultation looked at potential additional measures to decrease the appeal of nicotine inhaling products to young people, further denormalise smoking and improve public health.
A total of 15,821 responses were received, with 90% of members of the public who responded being current vapers, with other responses being from organisations and individuals in the spheres of health, education, consumer rights, retail, hospitality and the manufacture and distribution of nicotine inhaling products and tobacco products.
The Department of Health acknowledged that there was interference by the vaping industry during the consultation period, and said it had received complaints that a vaping company was offering financial incentives to customers in return for making submissions to the public consultation on regulating tobacco and vaping products. Link to full consultation report is here.