All East of England meetings are funded by the Department of Health

1^st Meeting, 18 September 2007

Sian Evans, ERPHO

Dr Toni Steer, Healthy living social marketing initiative: a review of the evidence.

Workshops

What are the implications of the social marketing approach for how we address obesity locally?

§  How does this approach differ from current practice?

§  What if any differences are there in project methodology if we use social marketing?

§  What social marketing expertise/data can be called upon locally?

§  What outcomes do we want from a social marketing approach to obesity?

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2^nd Meeting, 22 April 2008

Oliver Smith, Deputy Director, DH Obesity Programme

Roz Coombs, Regional Physical Activity Co-ordinator, RPHG

Adam Rigarlsford, Sport England East

Group workshops

Workshops by the Public Health Research Centre of Excellence, Professor Nick Wareham and team

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3^rd Meeting, 11 September 2008

Speakers

Dr Helen Crawley, Caroline Walker Trust

Beelin Baxter, Food Standards Agency

Dr Nigel Lambert, VOICE Project

Sue Hay, Childhood Obesity Interventions Project

‘Speed dating’ session:

Karl Jackson, Food and Fitness Project

Lorna, Community Nutrition

Helen Glyn-Davies, Beds U5 Healthy Eating Award

Jo Micklam and Sue Barratt, Training in Local Schools

Tobin Stephenson, Pesticides in Organic Products

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4^th Meeting, 19 January 2009

‘Psychological and Surgical Aspects of Obesity’

Speakers

Julia Buckroyd, Severe Morbid Obesity - A therapeutic approach

Mandy Elder, Lead Commissioner for Bariatric Surgery

Multi-disciplinary team members will be sharing their experience including:

Consultant Bariatric Surgeon Mr Jain, Specialist Nurse Louise Young, Team Dietitian

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 5^th Meeting, 28 April 2009

‘Childhood Obesity’

Beelin Baxter, Regional Update

Sian Evans, Regional report on NCMP

Chris Holmes, Social Marketing

Louisa Ells, National Obesity Observatory

Di Hardiman, Play England Strategy

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6^th Meeting, 15 September 2009

‘The Healthy Debate’

Speakers

The Healthy Debate: Dr David Haslam, Chris Holmes, Dr Susan Jebb and Prof Andy Smith

Julian Blackburn, the Food Standard Agency

Beelin Baxter, Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives Update

Workshop

Group discussions of the debate and presentations.

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7^th Meeting, 28 January 2010

‘There’s no Health without Mental Health’

Speakers

Jean Hughes, Alison Lawrie, an overview & background of improving access to Psychological Therapies:

Gillian Todd, psychological factors in obesity

Cathy Walsh, the role of Liaison Psychiatry

Dr Andy Cohen and Dr Sian Rees, psychological approaches to long term condition management

Henck Van Bilsen, building emotional resilience

Workshops

• Weight Bias and what we can do about it

Helen Gibbs

• Long Term Condition Management – service example perspective
• Medically Unexplained Symptoms – identification and approaches

      Dr John Hague

• 4 prudent health behaviours

Dr Justyn Thomas

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8^th Meeting, 16 June 2010

Speakers

Paula Yates, annual report from the Childhood Obesity National Support Team

Sandra Atik and Geeta Pankhania, child weight management programme and training provider’s framework

Ray Hughes, overview and progress of the regional school travel plan

Duncan Radley, MEND

What should you evaluate in a childhood obesity programme?

Presentation 1 – Carnegie and their evaluation. Prof Paul Gately, Carnegie Weight Management

Presentation 2 –To introduce the Standard Evaluation Framework developed by National Obesity Observ  atory. Glen Head, Mid Essex PCT.

Workshop

Group discussion: Using programmes in your area as examples, discuss your evaluation criteria and how that has worked/not worked.

Number of members who have attended: 294