North West Public Health Conference & Awards 2011

Friday 14th October, 9.00am - 4.30pm

Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) Liverpool (part of the Echo Arena complex)

Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 4FP

Proposition: How do we create effective partnerships to deliver wellbeing?

  • How do we build on the strengths of our local communities to deliver wellbeing?
  • How do we invest wisely for wellbeing with limited resources?
  • In order to effectively reduce health inequalities, how do we overcome differences in working cultures across our partnerships?

08.00am / Registration and refreshments – Lower Galleria Area
Morning Chair
Councillor Terence O’Neill - Leader WarringtonCouncil
09.15am / “Welcome to Liverpool” – opening address by Gideon Ben Tovim, Chair, Liverpool PCT
Opening address and housekeeping from Councillor O’Neill
09.30am / Conference proposition from Dr Ann Hoskins, Acting Regional Director of Public Health/Director of Children, Young People and Maternity Services, NHS North West
09.40am / Keynote Speaker:Professor David Hunter, Professor of Health Policy & Management, DurhamUniversity
10.05am / Keynote Speaker:Liam Hughes, National Advisor for Healthy Communities
10.30am / Refreshment Break– Lower Galleria Area
11.00am / Morning Parallel Sessions
  • Mental Health & Wellbeing
Jude Stansfield, Mental Health & Wellbeing, ChaMPs
  • Talking Food: Taking Action
Peter Bryant, Head of Public Engagement, Our Life
  • Targeting Vulnerable People: Using research, over 65 household data, mosaic & response times in order to prioritise
Evan Morris MBE, Head of Community Safety, Cheshire Fire Rescue Service
  • Child Poverty Commission
Dr Dympna Edwards, Interim Director of Public Health, NHS Halton & St Helens Primary Care Trust and Rob Tabb, City Region Employment and Skills Team at Knowsley MBC(in place of Frank Field)
11.45am / Lunch & optional wellbeing activities– Lower Galleria Area
Afternoon Chair
Erika Wenzel – Chief Executive, Cheshire East Council
1.00pm / Performance from the children of local schools who have participated in Liverpool’s “In Harmony” programme.
A synopsis of the programme will be delivered by Peter Garden, Executive Director for Learning, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with thanks from Dr Paula Grey, Joint Director of Public Health, Liverpool PCT/Liverpool City Council
1.20pm / 2011 North West Public Health Awards
Presentation of the Awards will be made by Dr Ann Hoskins, Acting Regional Director of Public Health/Director of Children, Young People Maternity Services, NHS North West
2.00pm / Afternoon Parallel Sessions
  • Health in the 21st Century
Professor Sir Muir GrayCBE, Director, Better Value
  • Wellbeing in the Workplace
Dave Horsfield, Workplace Health Lead, Liverpool PCT
  • Wellbeing and Community Resilience in Health Protection
Dr Alex StewartConsultant in Communicable Disease Control, HPA North West, Dr Richard Jarvis, Consultant in Health Protection, Cheshire and Merseyside Health Protection Unit and George Kowalczyk, Regional Toxicology Advisor, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Chemical, Radiation & Environmental Hazards
  • Wellbeing & Social Values
Julie Cheetham, Project Director, Social Value Project, NHS North West and Michael Pyrah, Managing Director, Central & Eastern Cheshire PCT
2.45 pm / Break– Lower Galleria Area
3.10 pm / Keynote Speaker: John Wilderspin, National Transition Director for the Implementation of Health and Wellbeing Boards
3.40 pm / Keynote Speaker: Dr Ruth HusseyOBE, Director of Public Health,
Public Health England Transition Team
4.10pm / Closing address and summary from Erika Wenzel
4.30pm / Close

N.B. Programme is subject to change