Date for your Diary

 Utilising Behavioural Sciences to Improve Health & Wellbeing

Exploring a North West Approach 

Wednesday 22^nd May 2019

9:30am – 4pm

Halliwell Jones Stadium, Mike Gregory Way, Warrington, WA2 7NE

A collaborative event brought to you from key partners including, PHE NW, HEE North, Champs Collaborative, Lancashire County Council, Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership & Manchester University.

Public health challenges are often behavioural and sociological, evidence indicates that social science solutions work, how do we integrate this evidence into public health decision making and service delivery?

Purpose of the day:

We will take a behavioural sciences approach to understand and explore the recently published PHE Behavioural Sciences Strategy 2018 and collectively understand how we can embed behavioural science across the North West of England.  We will also showcase examples of how this is currently being done across the North West to help generate ideas.

Target Audience:

 Senior public health leads & commissioners in local authorities. NHS health improvement services and leads.  Service managers & clinical leads including nursing, medicine, psychological professions, pharmacy, dental, allied health professionals, & health care scientists working across health & care.  CCG commissioners, academia, voluntary & independent sector working in health care / health improvement sector.

Confirmed Speakers

Dr Tim Chadborn

Head of Behavioural Insights and Evaluation Lead at Public Health England

 The event will be chaired by:

 Dr Sakthi Karunanithi (Director of Public Health  Lancashire County Council)

 David Sweeney Executive Implementation Lead, C&M Health & Care Partnership

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 Please see the attached agenda for the day.

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