Choosing Health: "Making healthy choices easier"

Transform held a conference in partnership with North Devon Primary Care Trust on 1 March 2006, to help shape our local respose to the Government White Paper "Choosing Health".

Over 100 people attended the conference, including health professionals, councillors, and residents and young people who live in the Transform area.

Despite the £millions spent on health in this country every year, the health inequalities between the rich and poor are actually growing. The Conference highlighted examples of some of the innovative work that is already going on in the area, such as the Healthy Schools programme at Ilfracombe Junior School, the Healthier Homes Project which tackles fuel poverty and improves housing standards and not forgetting the sexual health, obesity and smoking cessation work (SOS) that Transform is carrying out in partnership with local agencies and Ilfracombe College.

Gary Smith (Transform Neighbourhood Manager) said, “the conference was a great success, but now the real work begins with all the participating organisations working together to put the new ideas into practice”.

Want to know what the recommendations were?
You can download them by clicking on the link below.

Health conference recommendations (56KB)

Missed the conference and want to know what the speakers said?
Download the presentations below. All bar sexual health (which is a word doc) are powerpoint presentations and will be saved onto your desktop or temporary internet files folder. Please email web admin if you have any problems.

Health Focus: Ian Teale (96KB)

Obesity and nutrition: Tracey Polak (40 KB)

Sexual health: Dr ElizabethClaydon (32 KB)

Mental health: (400 KB)

Smoking cessation: (136 KB)

Sensible drinking: (652 KB)

Theme group leader: Rory McDonald, 01271 867131