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🚨 New 📽️👉 Is food working for everyday people? Citizens in #TheFoodConversation ask each other what they think about food. How does it link to the biggest issues in their lives, from family finances to health and the NHS? And who is responsible for ensuring everyone can get healthy food? Tomorrow, more exciting news is coming. Watch this space 👀

Our latest newsletter is full of positive news for children and schools!

💬 "When me and my team sat down to discuss the recommendations in the report, the only question we were left asking was: 'Why wouldn't we do this?'" Reflecting on yesterday's launch of the 'The Health of the Next Generation – Good Food for Children’ report, our CEO explains why we need take a long-term approach to tackling child food insecurity and the immediate benefits that introducing universal Free School Meals would bring. The RSPH has joined other leading health organisations in publishing the cross-sector report outlining twelve recommendations for Government to tackle childhood food insecurity. Read the full article on our website 👇 Read more on the https://lnkd.in/eHVdJbP3

Addition, fortification, substitution and modification - key strategies to improve food quality and reduce falls and fracture in aged care. An insightful talk from our annual forum Watch here:

Improving food quality in aged care is an important consideration when implementing falls prevention strategies with all residents benefiting independent of underlying falls risk. Watch this talk by Sandra Iuliano from the 2024 NSW Fall Prevention & Healthy Ageing Network forum to learn more about improving food quality to reduce falls & fractures.

Revolutionizing Healthcare: How Food Security Saves $200k per Diabetic Patient Discover how a food security service transformed healthcare for elderly diabetics. Find out how Geisinger saved over $200,000 per patient per year with medically appropriate meal delivery. Follow us on Substack: https://lnkd.in/e49bGQUR Uncover the secret to cutting costs while improving patient well-being. #HealthcareInnovation #FoodSecurity #DiabetesCare #CostSavings #HealthcareTransformation #ElderlyHealth #MedicallyAppropriateMeals #PatientWellbeing #HealthcareCosts #Geisinger

As we reach the end of the Decade of nutrition, in 2025, we need to explore how we can make progress. We want to collect voices from all over the world, particularly from communities struggling to feed their families, to participate in the conversation and to help design possible solutions. This is an opportunity to contribute your experiences and ideas, to help reduce the numbers of people who go to bed hungry and increase the number of people who can eat a nutritious diet through more effective and equitable food systems. A film will be created from the submissions to be aired during the congress and the issues raised will be analysed and collected into a poster to be presented at the final congress plenary. There are two main areas we are exploring in relation to food security: A: Tell Us Your experiences of feeding yourselves, your family and your community. Have you experienced any positive changes or challenges in the last few years? How are you coping with any challenges? Have you had any support? From whom? What one thing would make a difference for you, your family and/or your community? And/or... B: Have you been involved in feeding infants as a mother, other carer or a health worker? What are your experiences, practices and perceptions on infant and young child feeding, in the last three years? What is working and what is not? What changes do you think would promote more effective infant and young child feeding practices and perceptions? Format We encourage you to send us your views on the questions above in one of these formats: A brief video of under 3 minutes A text document of up to 250 words A photo essay or drawing A poster Other More information below👇 https://lnkd.in/eWkADdgG #wphncongress2024 #yourvoicematters

CALL FOR COMMUNITY VOICES! How do we reduce hunger and fulfill the right to food, nutrition and health for all? WPHNA Congress partnering with the University of Westminster are inviting community members, leaders, workers and advocates from all parts of the world to join the conversation about hunger and human rights at the WPHN Congress 2024. There are two main areas we are exploring in relation to food security: A: Tell Us Your experiences of feeding yourselves, your family and your community. Have you experienced any positive changes or challenges in the last few years? How are you coping with any challenges? Have you had any support? From whom? What one thing would make a difference for you, your family and/or your community? And/or... B: Have you been involved in feeding infants as a mother, other carer or a health worker? What are your experiences, practices and perceptions on infant and young child feeding, in the last three years? What is working and what is not? What changes do you think would promote more effective infant and young child feeding practices and perceptions? The format of submissions can be: ⚪️A brief video of under 3 minutes. ⚪️An email of up to 250 words. ⚪️A photo essay or drawing ⚪️A poster ⚪️Other as desired A film created from the submissions will be aired during the congress and the inputs will contribute to the Congress recommendations. These in turn will feed into future advocacy for global actions and policies. Full details of requirements and how to submit are available: https://lnkd.in/ekThfGW3 Submissions are open and will close on 10th May 2024. Below are some words from our congress convernor Regina Keith on the community conversations call.

Let's Take 5 to Address Drivers of Health, a new initiative from The Physicians Foundation supports #physicians in addressing patients' DOH, like food security. Check out these resources to help integrate screenings in your practice: https://ow.ly/u3Ia50RCbkm #SDOH

Should our hospitals be serving junk food to patients? * Junk food in the temple of health?: The presence of junk food in hospitals, which are supposed to be places of healing. * Diet impacts health: Can't we expect nutritious and healthy food from hospitals? * A need for #change: We demand for a change in the food served in H hospitals area. You can show your support for this demand. * #HealthyFoodInHospitals: Share this post with this hashtag to raise awareness on this important topic. * I completely agree with Revant Himatsingka (Food Pharmer) post. We need to focus on the quality of food served in our hospitals. * Every patient has a right to nutritious food in hospitals. * Let's work together to promote healthy eating in hospitals. Thanks Revant Himatsingka (Food Pharmer)