HPHS Network
The HPHS Network works together to influence national and local health improvement policy, to share good practice and to provide mutual support.
The HPHS Network meets quarterly to share progress on health improvement activities, examples of good practice and participate in workshops around topical issues.
Membership of the HPHS Network includes representatives from NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Borders, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Highland, NHS Grampian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Lothian, NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, NHS Tayside, NHS Western Isles and the State Hospital (Carstairs).
If you are interested in becoming involved with the HPHS Network, or would like to find out who is the representative for your Hosptial, NHS Board or CHP please contact Hope Turner by email at: hope.turner@health.scot.nhs.uk.
WORKING GROUPS
Supporting the HPHS Network are two working groups which are progressing on specific topics:
Retail Standards (Food and Drink) in Hospitals
This Working Group is focussing on issues around the substitution of healthy options for food and drink retailing in hospitals. The Group aims to build on work undertaken to develop food nutrition standards for patients and staff and to extend these principles to all food and beverage retailing in hospitals.
Built Environment in Hospitals
This Working Group is currently identifying and engaging key partners who are responsible for the management and improvement of hospital estates. The aims of this Group is to postively influence hospital maintenance, refurbishment and contruction to incorporate a health improvement philosophy.
Promoting Child Dental Health in Hospitals
This Working Group was formed to focus attention on the role of secondary care settings in oral health promotion. The aim of this Group is to develop and publish good practice guidelines for promoting child dental health in hospital.
WHO HPH TASK FORCES
Members of the HPHS Network are also collaborating on WHO Taskforces:
HPH Task Force on Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents in and by Hospitals (HPH – CA)
This Task Force aims to provide a better understanding and definition for the role that hospitals and health services should have with regards to health improvement for children and adolescents. To achieve this the Task Force will supply a conceptual and operational framework for healthcare professionals, social workers and decision makers.
Task Force on Migrant Friendly Hospitals
This Task Force aims to promote migrant-friendly, culturally competent health care and health promotion and to support hospitals to develop practical knowledge to this end. The task force comprises three subgroups: (1) Improving interpreting in clinical communications; (2) Migrant-friendly information and training in mother and child-care; and, (3) Staff training towards cultural competence: enabling hospital staff to better handle cross-cultural encounters.
Task Force on Health Promoting Psychiatric Services
This Task Force is aims to ensure that health promotion in psychiatric services reflect the principles of the 1986 Ottawa Charter and the Budapest Declaration on Health Promoting Hospitals.