Public Health Consultant @STSFTrust likes: outdoors,sport and public health/loves: dogs, breakfast and Yorkshire. Tweeting in a personal capacity
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
17 Aug 2025
Head of Public Health
Gateshead Council
Gateshead
£75,981 - £86,069
Closes 31/08
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28 Nov 2024
Extension to the deadline…health literacy can support efforts to tackle health inequalities ⚖️…get your submissions in 📝and share what you’re doing! @NHSProviders @fuse_online @KathPackham @NENC_NHS @OHID
25 Nov 2024
**Deadline extended to 31 March 2025** The journal Public Health is seeking submissions for a special issue on #Health #Literacy. For more information, please see the Call for Papers:
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#callforpapers
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Interested in learning about the role of health literacy in reducing health inequalities? 📖
Join us on Mon 2 December to find out about work NHS trusts are leading on, inc @RyanSwiers @STSFTrust @MFTnhs @NHSProviders
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
4 Oct 2024
#Health #Literacy special issue: Validation of the Spanish version of the Health Literacy Survey (HLS19-Q12) in secondary care specialty consultations
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
23 Sep 2024
Local Authority Research Practitioner: South Tyneside Council are seeking to recruit a Local Authority Research Practitioner to their Public Health Team
Contract Type: Fixed Term | Working Pattern: Full time | Salary: £45,441 pa |… dlvr.it/TDZXMK #NEJobs #PublicSector
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It's a proud week for our Health Literacy Team! 🌍👏
They are at the 2nd Global Health Literacy Summit in Rotterdam, showing the brilliant work they do to help our patients understand their health.
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
28 Jun 2024
We are recruiting to a senior role in our team. PH Epi post to be our professional lead in this space. Closes 4 July. Please do reach out if interested. @PHJobsUK @pubhealthjobsuk @BucksCouncil
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
9 May 2024
A short hypothetical relevant to how the NHS sets goals and priorities.
Imagine you are an athlete with an ambition to be very successful...
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
8 May 2024
#KFHealthInequalities
"How confident are you that the information you provide to / the way in which you communicate with audiences / communities is appropriate? Does it meet best practice guidance? Does it meet reading age? What’s stopping you from change?"
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
1 May 2024
In what moral universe can this be the right thing to do: the lower the life expectancy of a local area in 2010-12, the greater the cuts to government funding in the subsequent years. Was this a deliberate policy to increase health inequalities?
1 May 2024
New @marmotihe report: 3/9 English regions showed increases in inequalities in life expectancy for men NE, Yorkshire & Humber & East of England) @MichaelMarmot @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
25 Apr 2024
Free online #HealthLiteracy webinar for #EuropeanPublicHealthWeek! #EPHW linkedin.com/events/dismantl…@ @. .
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We are proud to be supporting the #KFHealthInequalities conference.
The 2-day programme looks set to be a fascinating insight into how we can all work together to tackle #HealthInequalities in the UK.
Find out more below 👇
10 Apr 2024
During one of the sessions at our #KFHealthInequalities we'll hear from Andrew Brown, Chief Executive of Croydon BME Forum. In the session we'll explore how partnership working and collaborations can help tackle health inequalities. Book your ticket today. kingsfund.org.uk/events/heal…
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
5 Apr 2024
The journal Public Health is seeking submissions for a special issue on #Health #Literacy. For more information, please see the Call for Papers:
sciencedirect.com/journal/pu…
#callforpapers
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Mitigating Health and Science Misinformation: A Scoping Review of Literature from 2017 to 2022 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… via @JacobRohde et al
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
21 Mar 2024
The journal Public Health is seeking submissions for a special issue on #Health #Literacy. For more information, please see the Call for Papers:
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#callforpapers
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
12 Mar 2024
Amazing work. Well done @RyanSwiers
28 Feb 2024
Ryan Swiers is the NENC ICB's health literacy lead and a consultant in public health at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. In this blog he explains why good communication underpins great healthcare. 🗣
Read the full blog here👉northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk…
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
6 Mar 2024
The journal Public Health is seeking submissions for a special issue on #Health #Literacy. For more information, please see the Call for Papers:
sciencedirect.com/journal/pu…
#callforpapers
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
6 Mar 2024
We are recruiting for a PH Practitioner. Please do get in touch if you are interested. jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/…
Closing date 13 March. @pubhealthjobsuk @PHJobsUK @BucksCouncil
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Ryan Swiers retweeted
20 Feb 2024
The journal Public Health is seeking submissions for a special issue on #Health #Literacy. For more information, please see the Call for Papers:
sciencedirect.com/journal/pu…
#callforpapers
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