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 Have your say on health plan for Nottingham
You still have time
to give your views as plans are finalised to help improve quality
of life for people in Nottingham.
Work has been under way for several months on the city’s Health
and Wellbeing Board strategy for 2016 to 2020. This document sets out agreed
targets and priorities to make people happier and healthier, and reduce health
inequalities.
A series of consultations have taken place with the public and
partners to find out what is important to people in terms of their health and
happiness.
Based on the results of that, a draft strategy has been produced
and, once again, the views of the public are being sought to see if those
priorities are right.
Anyone wishing to take part should visit www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/hwb where more information is available
about the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and a link through to the survey.
Consultation will be open until the end of June.
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 Girls show what good sports they are
More
than 100 school girls got active during a This Girl Can Festival.
The event saw 120 year six girls from 12 city primary schools
taking part in sport and games. The festival was all about fun and enjoyment,
and encouraged all the girls to ‘have a go’ regardless of their shape,
size or ability.
Pupils
at the festival, held on 23 June,
took part in an opening ceremony, mass warm-up, coaching and games run by
secondary girls from three city schools. Some of the sports included dodgeball,
urban hockey and handball, plus there was a big closing ceremony at the end of the
day. Each girl went home with a participation certificate for their efforts.
It
was held at Nottingham Trent University's Lee Westwood Sports Centre, and
was run in partnership between the City Council’s SOLAR (Sport, Outdoor
Learning, Life Skills, Adventure and Risk Management) team, The Nottingham
Emmanuel School, The Trinity School and The Nottingham Girls School.
More
on the This Girl Can event here
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 Keep kids active this summer
Ahead of the school holidays, parents are being reminded of eight top tips to keep their children healthy and happy.
The Department of Health’s Change 4 Life programme seeks to
improve diet and encourage more physical activity. The tips are:
- Sugar swaps – switch sugary snacks and drinks
for ones that are lower in sugar
- Meal time – try to organise the day around three
regular meal times
- Me-size meals – give portions that matches a
child’s size and not the same as an adult
- Snack check – keep an eye on how many and
remember that it can be kinder to say ‘no’
- 5-a-day – it’s easier than you think to give
children five daily portions of fruit and vegetables
- Cut back fat – Make crisps, buns, cakes and
biscuits an occasional treat only
- 10-minutes exercise bursts – children need an
hour a day of activity but you can break this up
- Get going everyday – encourage them to burn off
energy through play and limit access to TV and computer games
More on the Change
4 Life programme can be found here
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 Family days out are Smokefree in Nottingham
Nottingham’s Smokefree Summer 2016 is well under way with smokers having already been asked not to light up at three family events – and Splendour, the Beach and
Riverside are next up.
The programme, designed to reduce the number of people in the city who
smoke and take smoking out of the sight of children, kicked off with the 1940s Knees-Up at Nottingham
Castle, and was followed by the Wheee! Children’s Festiva, at Lakeside Arts
Centre, and, most recently, Armed Forces Weekend at Wollaton Park.
Smokefree
Summer followed the success of last year’s Beach, in Old Market Square, where
visitors were asked not to smoke and a survey carried out at the time showed overwhelming
support for more similar events in the future.
It
supports the work of Nottingham Health and Wellbeing Board’s Tobacco Control
Strategy, which was launched in January and aims to cut smoking prevalence in
the city. This is well above the national average. The strategy can be viewed here.
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 Don’t let food
poisoning ruin your barbecue
There’s nothing better than having friends and family over on
a hot summer’s afternoon and lighting the barbecue.
It’s one of things many people enjoy most about the arrival
of the warmer weather, but it also creates an extra 120,000 cases of food poising
between July and August. There are around a million cases in the UK each year.
To make sure that you don’t fall victim and your barbecue is
remembered for all the right reasons, follow this simple advice:
- Ensure meat is cooked through thoroughly prior
to serving
- Charred meat doesn’t mean cooked
- Ensure the juices of the meat run clear and in
the case of chicken and pork are not pink
- Disposable barbecues can take longer to cook food
- Always wash hands prior to preparing food
- Ensure hands are washed after touching raw meat
and raw unwashed vegetables
- Keep chopping boards for raw meat separate from
vegetable and salad chopping boards
- Keep knives for cutting meat separate to
vegetable chopping knives
Read more
about barbecue food safety here
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 Safe sleeping over the summer holidays
Public health experts are reminding parents and grandparents
to remember the importance of safe sleeping for babies during the forthcoming summer
holidays.
Risks increase significantly at this time of year as
families spend longer periods of time away from home and routines change.
Babies, both newborns and older infants, need
lots of sleep during their first few months and it’s important to ensure that
they’re sleeping safely at all times. This includes overnight and shorter, daytime
naps.
Click
here for more information about safe sleep for babies
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