Publications & Documents

Members of the Public Health Network produce information, guidance and strategies on a wide range of topics. Documents can either be accessed by clicking in the tables below. To view documents in PDF, you will need Adobe Acrobat which is freely available.

Annual Public Health Reports
Benefit advice in primary care
Chronic Heart Disease (CHD)
Clinical Governance
Communicable Diseases
Demand Management
Dental Public Health
Diabetes
Drugs
Evidence Based Medicine
Health Equity Audit
Health Services Data
Hearing
Injury Prevention
Inequalities
Maternity and Infant Health
Neighbourhood Profiles
Smoking
Surgical Services Reviews
Older People

Annual Public Health Report  

Bristol

• The Health of Bristol 2007
• The Health of Bristol 2006. Focussing on people over 50 [PDF, 3.23 mb]
• The Health of Bristol 2004, Annual Report of the Director of Public Health, Bristol. September 2005 [PDF, 1.27mb]
• Health of Bristol 2003, Joint Annual Report from the Directors of Public Health, Bristol [PDF]
• The Health of Bristol 2002, Joint Annual Report from the Directors of Public Health, Bristol [PDF]
• Health of the population 2001 [PDF]
• Health of the population 2000 [PDF]
• Health of the population 1999 [PDF]
  

BANES

• The Health of the People of Bath and North East Somerset Report of the Director of Public Health, Bath and North East Somerset, 2005 [PDF]
• The Health of the Population 2002, Bath and North East Somerset PCT. [PDF]

North Somerset

• Health in North Somerset, The Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2002/3 [PDF]

South Gloucestershire

• our area, our health, Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2003 [PDF]
• our area, our health, Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2004 [PDF]
• our area, our health, Annual Report of the Director of Public Health, 2005: Focus on children and young people [PDF]
• our area, our health, Annual Report of the Director of Public Health, 2006: Focus on the environment and healthy ageing [PDF]
• our area, our health, Annual Report of the Director of Public Health, 2007: Focus on gender, alcohol and assessing neighbourhood health need [PDF]

Benefit advice in primary care

• Report for APHnet

Clinical Governance

• Avon Public Health Network Seminar Notes on Public Health Clinical Governance and Race Equality schemes: June 2003
• Local Guidelines for Risk Assessment and Management

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Communicable Diseases - Advice Sheets

• Malaria
• Impetigo
• Ringworm
• TB
• Hepatitis A
  

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)

• Living with Heart Disease - Survey of Primary Care Coronary Heart Disease Patients in Bristol  
• Repeat Ischaemic heart disease audit of Primary Care patients (2002-2003)
• Access to Primary Health Care Services for South Asian Cardiovascular Disease Patients: Health Care Professional Perspective: February 2003 
• Ischaemic Heart Disease Audit of Primary Care Patients (2001-2002): Comparisons by age, sex and ethnic group. May 2003

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Demand Management

• Changing outpatient care: reducing follow up appointments

Dental Public Health

• Oral Health Strategy: January 2000

Diabetes

• Improving the health of people in the midlife from black and minority ethnic communities
• Spotlight on Diabetes - Updated June 2002
• Diabetic eye disease: Proposal for a diabetic retinopathy screening programme in the Bristol and South Gloucestershire areas: September 2001.

Drugs

Presentations from Best Practice meeting, Friday 13^th February 2009

• GP Best Practice Meeting, 13/02/09
• Buprenorphine for The Treatment of Opiod Dependence in Primary Care
  Dr Matthew Barber, Lawrence Hill Health Centre & Pete Ursell, Senior Practitioner in Shared Care, Bristol Drugs Project
• Heroin Misuse Audit of Care, Dr Dougal Darvill
• Naltrexone In Primary Care
  Fergus Law, BSDAS & Jayne Peters, BDP

• Bristol GP Data Collection Form, Version 6
• Treatment Outcomes Profile: Bristol - Form
• Bristol START Full Assessment - Form
• Shared Care Management for Drug Misusers Integrated Care Pathway
• Protocol for the Management of Dug Misuse, Bristol  PCT, 2007
• Benzodiazepine, Bristol PCT, 2007
• Issues to be considered when assessing patients for unsupervised consumption, Bristol PCT, 2007
• DBS Study in Bristol - aiming to increase the uptake of HCV antibody testing in IDU, Matthew Hickman, Barbara Coleman, Vivan Hope, John Parry. Bristol PCT, Social Medicine University of Bristol, HPA
• DBS Testing - What are we testing and why? Dr Monique Anderson, SpR Virology / GU&HIV, HPA Bristol
• Hepatitis C, Pre and Post Test Issues.  Simon Joseph, Hepatitis Specialist Nurse Practitioner

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Evidence Based Medicine

• How to answer questions about effectiveness of health care interventions. March 2001

Health Equity Audit

• Health Equity Audits
• Health Equity Audit Seminar Presentation
• Health Equity Audit: Breast Feeding
• Analysis of Smoking: Cessation data

• Bristol PCT Maternity Health Equity Audit
• Bristol PCT Maternity Health Equity Audit - Short Report

• North Somerset PCT Maternity Health Equity
• North Somerset PCT Maternity Health Equity Audit - Short Report

• South Gloucestershire PCT Maternity Health Equity Audit
• South Gloucestershire PCT Maternity Health Equity Audit - Short Report

• Bristol, North Somerset and S Gloucs PCTs - Chronic Kidney Disease Health Equity Audit, Short Report

Health Services Data

• Populations and activity rates, September 2006
• Outpatient Trends 

• BNSSG Commissioning Advisory Forum - Commissioning policy for bone anchored hearing aids

Injury Prevention

• Spotlight on Unintentional Injury in Avon: November 2001
• Spotlight on Unintentional Injury in B&NES: November 2001
• Spotlight on Unintentional Injury in Bristol North: November 2001
• Spotlight on Unintentional Injury in Bristol South & West: November 2001
• Spotlight on Unintentional Injury in North Somerset: November 2001
• Spotlight on Unintentional Injury in South Gloucestershire: November 2001

Maternity and Infant Health

• Commissioning Issues for Maternity Services for Maternity Services in Bristol and South Gloucestershire
  Bristol and South Gloucestershire PCTs, November 2004
• Trends in Need and Demand for Neonatal Services
  Bristol and South Gloucestershire PCTs, November 2004
• Maternity Inequalities, Examples of Good Practice
• Late bookings For Antenatal Care 2008
• Community Profile 2007 and Public Health Strategy 2007 - 2010

Inequalities

• Women and Children's Inequalities Project in South Bristol 2001 - 2004

WCC Briefing Sheets

• Ward Level Life Expectancy At Birth: Bristol 2003-2007
• Health Outcomes Summary: Cancer Mortality
• Health Outcomes Summary: Childhood Obesity
• Health Outcomes Summary: CVD Mortality
• Health Outcomes Summary: Health Inequalities
• Health Outcomes Summary: Life Expectancy
• Health Outcomes Summary: Smoking Quitters
• Health Outcomes Summary: Teenage Conception
• Health Outcomes Summary: TIA Management

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Neighbourhood Profiles

• Ashley: January 2003
• Avonmouth: January 2003
• Easton: January 2003
• Filwood: January 2003
• Hillfields: January 2003
• Lawrence Hill: January 2003
• Lawrence Weston: January 2003
• Lockleaze: January 2003
• Sure Start Easton: January 2003
• Heart Health Needs Assessment: Identifying priorities for primary and secondary prevention of CHD in Filwood: February 2003

Smoking

• Exposure to second-hand smoke in Bristol. Baseline Report, September 2005
• Tackling Smoking Strategy: December 2000
• Smoking Cessation Services: November 1999

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Surgical Services Reviews

• Strategic Issues in Commissioning Secondary Care Gynaecology Services for Conditions other than Cancer
  Bristol and South Gloucestershire PCTs, November 2004
• Trends in Secondary Care Urology Activity Data
  Bristol and South Gloucestershire PCTs, December 2004
• Sickle Cell Leaflet, Carrier Status
• Summary of orthopaedic benchmarking and trends for the BNSSG population
• Orthopaedic benchmarking and trends for the BNSSG population
• Commissioning services for people with orthopaedic problems
• Summary of data analysis of lumbar procedures 2002-03 – 2006-07

Older People

• Spotlight on Older People in Avon: November 2001  
• Spotlight on Older People in B&NES: November 2001 
• Spotlight on Older People in Bristol North: November 2001 
• Spotlight on Older People in Bristol South & West: November 2001
• Spotlight on Older People in North Somerset: November 2001 
• Spotlight on Older People in South Gloucestershire: November 2001

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• Data Sources Talk to B&NES PCT: March 2003