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Halton & St Helens Gets HIP!
Halton & St Helens Primary Care Trust, in partnership with St Helens Mental Health Forum & The Wellbeing Project CIC are pleased to announce the launch of ‘Health Improvement Podcasts’ or HIP’s as they are being affectionately called.
Download Episode 1 click here CAMHS in Halton & St Helens
Download Episode 2 click here Changes to Services
Download Episode 3 click here The Future of Services
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HIP’s are short audio programmes, downloadable to your computer or MP3 music player featuring interviews with health professionals, patients and people from the local community, alongside interesting news features and topical discussions. This unique scheme is part of a drive to utilise new technologies to communicate health information and information on services to people locally.
The first series of HIP’s to be launched feature interviews with Dave Sweeney, Commissioning Manager for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services for Halton & St Helens PCT. Dave sheds light on issues relating to mental health distress amongst young people in Halton & St Helens, and talks about plans to tackle these issues through redesign and development of specialist children’s services.
Mark Swift, Health Improvement Specialist for Halton & St Helens Primary Care Trust, and Karen Machin, Chair of the Mental Health Forum, based at the United Reform Church developed the scheme to create a means of communicating developments in local health initiatives.
Helen Jarram, Health Improvement Partnership Manager said ‘’I am really excited to see the launch of HIP’s. Podcasts are increasingly being used to access a wide range of information easily and effectively. The introduction of HIP’s means that we can reach even more local people with health information, many of who may have found it difficult for one reason or another to access information in other formats in the past. We will be rolling out the HIP’s over the coming months to offer a range of healthy lifestyle information to local people at the touch of a button’’
You can listen to and download episode 1 of 3 for free by visiting the Halton & St Helens Primary Care Website.
Download Episode 1 click here CAMHS in Halton & St Helens
Download Episode 2 click here Changes to Services
Download Episode 3 click here The Future of Services
A special thanks goes out to Jez Kerr for granting permission to use samples of his music for the HIPs jingle.
If you’d like more information about Health Improvement Podcasts, you can contact Mark Swift or Linda Gittens on 01744 697433 or email Mark markswift@sthelens.gov.uk or Linda lindagittens@sthelens.gov.uk
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