HSE Health and Wellbeing Weekly Updates 28/08/2025

 

The latest edition of our HSE Health and Wellbeing Ezine has been published. Visit the HSE Health and Wellbeing Ezine webpage to read articles on what’s been happening with Health and Wellbeing. Links to each article included below:

• The HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme works with Leadership, Learning and Talent Management (LLTM) to develop a mentorship programme for Stop Smoking Advisor staff
• Upcoming Health and Wellbeing webinars
• Two HSE Hospitals Strike Gold for Healthy Catering Excellence
• Creating Inclusive Communities: parkrun and HSE Launch Dementia-Inclusive Initiative
• HSE Talking Health & Wellbeing Podcast Returns
• Her Heart Matters Campaign – September 2025
• RCSI study reveals €20bn healthcare cost of smoking in Ireland

 

To subscribe to receive the ezine directly, please follow this link https://email.ezine.ie/h/t/088BB3A579288204

 

 

HSE Talking Health & Wellbeing Podcast

On this week’s episode of the HSE Talking Health and Wellbeing Podcast, Jenny Smith from the HSE National Social Inclusion Office and Rob from the Ana Liffey Drugs Project join us to mark International Overdose Awareness Day. They offer practical advice on overdose recognition, the importance of naloxone, and peer-led interventions that support communities affected by drug-related harm. This episode highlights the need for compassion, training, and open dialogue to reduce stigma and save lives.

 

If you have any feedback or wish to get in touch with the Team, please email Healthandwellbeing.communications@hse.ie

 

 

Every Move Counts – let’s play our part Webinar

The physical and mental health benefits of regular physical activity are immense.  Yet across Ireland most people are not active enough to experience these benefits.  Only 1 in 4 primary school children and 1 in 8 teenagers are active enough to meet Every Move Counts: national physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines.  For adults it’s 4 in 10.

Register to join us on Wednesday 24 September, 2:00pm – 3:15pm to hear about:

• The forthcoming National Physical Activity Framework and Action Plan 2024-2028; and
• How everyone working in healthcare can help promote physical activity and make Every Move Count.

Raising Awareness about Fostering a Child

 

There is currently a national shortage of foster carers in Ireland, coupled with a big demand for foster carers in Ireland, particularly in Dublin. Tusla Child & Family Agency are seeking assistance to raise awareness for the urgent need for foster carers in the community, as they aim to keep children in their own community, schools, friends, clubs. They are currently running a range of initiatives, and information sessions in person for groups from all different culture/religion backgrounds who may have experience with working with children with additional needs or interested in general fostering.

Please share the attached leaflet with your networks or if interested to hear more about fostering a child, or to find out more about these information sessions, please register at Tusla.fostering@tusla.ie to get the link to join.

Recruitment: Regional Mental Health and Wellbeing Officer

Health and Wellbeing, HSE Mid-West in partnership with Mental Health Ireland are recruiting a Mental Health and Wellbeing Officer for this region. This role will have responsibility for the coordination of a regional implementation plan to support the delivery of Stronger Together and Pathways to Wellbeing.

 

For more information, visit the Mental Health Ireland website.

 

Save the Date: QuitManager Webinar

 

Please note change of date for the HSE TFI Programme QuitManager Webinar, which will now be hosted on Wednesday 5 November, 10 to 11:30am. Registration details to follow.

 

Reminder – HSE Health & Wellbeing 2024 Annual Report Webinar

Register to join us on Thursday September 11th from 2pm – 3:00pm, for the launch of our 2024 Annual Report where we will look back and reflect on progress to date across our range of health policy areas in HSE Health and Wellbeing:

 

Baby Food Made Easy – 2024 Evaluation and Webinar Dates 2025

 

Please find attached an evaluation of the Baby Food Made easy webinars held in HSE South West in 2024.   A total of 372 participants engaged with the webinar in 2024, and it is hoped that this number will increase further in 2025.  Feedback from parents has been hugely positive as outlined in the evaluation. 

 

There are 3 further webinars scheduled in 2025 on the following dates:

• Wed 24^th September
• Wed 22^nd October
• Wed 26^th

 

Use the QR code in the flyer attached to register.  If you have queries or suggestions regarding this webinar please contact Fiona King or Sheila Rush, Senior Health Promotion Community Dieticians, Health Promotion & Improvement Department HSE South West.

 

 

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‘Making Every Contact Count Signposting for Older People’

[Form 249b] [attached] is a collaborative piece of work between Susan Daly (Clinical Development Co-ordinator Cork/ Kerry Community Hospitals/ Nursing Units) and  Maire O Leary (MECC Lead Cork/ Kerry). It was developed as a means of sharing detailed information and contact details for key services and supports available to older adults and their carers across Cork and Kerry, promoting wellbeing, chronic disease management and prevention and includes key information on Advocacy Services, the Decision Support Services, Safeguarding and An Garda Siochana.   Our hope is that this signposting resource will increase older adults [and their carers] awareness of and uptake of self-care options, national initiatives and local supports available within the HSE SW Region to manage and prevent chronic illness, promote wellbeing and independence and empower older adults to voice concerns, seek support and plan for their future.

• This collaborative work was developed in conjunction with the adapted MECC education session delivered at the Q1 2025 Quarterly Clinical Cuppa. This workshop can be booked directly for your service by contacting oleary@hse.ie
• The resource is available to purchase through Forrest Print and Stationary by quoting form 249B – in print, it is an A4 hard card cover pad with 100 double sided, coloured, signposting pages with contact details and live QR codes to the various resources available [a directory specific to the HSE SW Region]. For further details on ordering the resource contact Daly@hse.ie.

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MECC Workshop dates September to December 2025 in Cork and Kerry

Making Every Contact Count is a HSE chronic disease prevention and management programme. It involves staff having conversations with patients to :

1. Support patients to make lifestyle choices that help prevent chronic disease
2. Promote Self-Management of existing chronic diseases

A blended learning education programme is available to support staff to this. To access Making Every Contact Count log onto www.hseland.ie

For online modules: Search Making Every Contact Count on www.hseland.ie

For Cork/Kerry workshops: Search MECC Workshops Cork Kerry on www.hseland.ie

• 18^thSeptember – St. Finbarr’s Campus
• 16th October CUMH Centre for Nursing Education
• 21^stOctober – Cahersiveen Community Hospital
• 24^thOctober – Bantry Primary Care Centre
• 5^thNovember – Mercy University Hospital, Centre for Midwifery Education
• 13^thNovember St. Stephens Campus, Glanmire
• 18^thNovember – University Hospital Kerry, Centre of Nursing Education
• 18th November – CUMH Centre for Midwifery Education 

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