In this blog, Alice Thwaite, Creative Health Associate for the North East, North Cumbria and Yorkshire, working for the National Centre for Creative Health shares her thoughts on the place of creative health in tackling health inequalities

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Published today, this CF Pathway joint paper looks at the lack of meaningful representation of #homelessness in NHS data, and how this impacts upon the care people experiencing homelessness have access to. Read more here 👉bit.ly/4atoidJ

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Anyone interested in frank & honest but constructive conversation between British Jewish & Muslim communities should subscribe to this pod with ⁦David Baddiel⁩ ⁦Sayeeda Warsi⁩ & ⁦Jemima Goldsmith⁩ . We need more of this. #moreincommon podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-m…

No progress made on half of UK government’s levelling-up targets - FAILURE on reducing regional health inequalities which have increased since 2010 theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

The #CreativeHealthReview looks at how to spread, scale & support creative health work! The Review's Implementing Creative Health Chapter discusses key themes incl. Cost & Value; Workforce Training & Development; Leadership & Strategy

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For people with mental illness, drugs and alcohol can be a key survival strategy. I’ve learned they shouldn’t have to ‘get clean’ to get treatment theconversation.com/for-people-wit… via The Conversation

Blog: Find out how Fuse researchers Prof Monique Lhussier & Dr Christina Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ from Northumbria Uni are working with Experts by Experience to embed community voices to improve health and reduce disparities for people with experience of homelessness. ⬇️

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The Phase 2 Three NIHR Research Schools' Mental Health Programme funding opportunities are currently open. Deadline at 3.30pm on 28 March 2024. Find out more: spcr.nihr.ac.uk/Three-Schools/…

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Very happy to share that I passed my PhD viva on Friday! I am so grateful for the support of my supervisors Prof Monique Lhussier Dr Natalie Forster & Steve Crossley & NIHR School for Public Health Research NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria What a team! ❤️🍾🥳

Very proud to be the first one to publicly congratulate Joanne McGrath for having successfully defended her thesis last Friday! Such important work on women exclusion and homelessness, summarised here: sphr.nihr.ac.uk/maze/ NIHR School for Public Health Research NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria Northumbria Uni

My Qualitative Social Work Editorial prompted by 3 events on women and homelessness in the last 2 months Dr AlisonBriggs Liz Ackerley Joanne McGrath Pause journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

'The UK has experienced the largest increase in relative child poverty between 2014 & 2021 of any advanced economy, according to estimates by Unicef. At the same time, 3.3mn children in the UK still live in “absolute” poverty.' Peter Foster & Amy Borrett ft.com/content/55072b…

Teaching oracy: a great, practical piece in Tes from Kirstin Mulholland: 'Five key actions teachers can undertake to develop the quality of talk taking place in their classrooms. These can be remembered using the 'five Ps' model: plan, probe, participation, prompts & pointers.' 1/2

The RREG March Webinar:

“As well as hunger, [schools are now dealing with] exhaustion, with increasing numbers of children living in homes without enough beds or unable to sleep because they are cold.”

A vital, harrowing report in today’s Observer on impact of poverty on schools theguardian.com/education/2024…

Subnational inequalities in years of life lost and associations with socioeconomic factor

Age-standardised YLLs per 100k (A) & annual % change in age-standardised YLL rates per 100k, 2009 - 2019 (B)

UK looking unhealthy and unequal

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Deaths of despair – deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide – are more prevalent in the North than the rest of the country.

Read our analysis with Health Equity North and @OfficalUoM that examines these inequalities 👇

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Matthew Johnson, Elliott Johnson, Irene Hardill & Daniel Nettle argue that the key benefits co-production for policymaking lie not in areas of high consensus, but in honing material arguments and narratives.

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We're immensely grateful to Bola Owolabi for joining us at #ARCSconf24 today and for opening our event with a thought-provoking keynote speech focussing our minds on the real, 'people' cost of health inequalities.

Thank you for giving a voice to the voiceless.