HNY Centre For Excellence

Our Chair, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, spoke to @lbc.co.uk today on why government action on alcohol harm is long overdue, and why we need a national alcohol strategy to save lives, reduce NHS pressures and build a fairer, healthier Britain.

📻Listen from 10:52am www.globalplayer.com/live/lbcnews...

Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms Exclusive: Education secretary told sponsored resources misrepresent evidence about diets, alcohol and betting

🚫The alcohol, gambling & junk food industries have no place providing educational materials to schools.🚫

58 leading academics & orgs have written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social urging her to follow Ireland’s lead in removing these materials from classrooms.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Wes Streeting warned alcohol measures ‘are not sufficient’ to stop harm The Government has recently set out its 10-year plan to improve the health of the nation.

Government plans to tackle alcohol deaths “are not sufficient to address the scale and complexity of harm”

Academics, medics and charities from around the country have urged ministers to take “ambitious” action to tackle the “scale of the current crisis”

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Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms Exclusive: Education secretary told sponsored resources misrepresent evidence about diets, alcohol and betting

In an open letter to the Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, we’ve called for the government to end the influence of the alcohol, gambling, and junk food industries in our schools.

Children should be protected from industry misinformation.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The alcohol, gambling and junk food industries have no place providing educational materials to schools.

58 leading academics and orgs have urged Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to follow Ireland’s lead in removing these materials from classrooms.

As Prof Chris van Tulleken states:

#4 Stubbornly high rates of youth vaping is undermining their use as smoking cessation tools
Vaping is meant to help adults quit smoking - but youth use is far too high, and misinformation is rampant. The Bill will allow us to target what’s driving youth uptake. 📉
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We are proud to support this important letter.

We must end the influence of the alcohol, gambling, and junk food industries in our schools.

Urgent action is needed to prevent this form of influence and conflict of interest.

We have signed this letter to Wes Streeting (@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social) highlighting the current scale of alcohol harm, and how insufficient the measures in the 10 Year Health Plan are.

There is so much more that the government could do, as the letter explains.

How can we end smoking in the UK? What would it take to end smoking in 20 years? asks Hazel Cheeseman, CEO of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

🚭Ending smoking in the UK requires bold action and evidence-based policies. ASH CEO @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social discusses policies needed and the strong public support for action towards a smokefree UK.

www.openaccessgovernment.org/how-can-we-e...

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Record rise in number of smokers using Stop Smoking Services in Humber and North Yorkshire New figures published today (24th July) have shown that the number of people trying to quit smoking with the help of Stop Smoking Services across Humber and North Yorkshire over the last year has incr...

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Part 1 - Quit attempts and self-reported quit rates by demographic variables - NHS England Digital We’re the national information and technology partner to the health and social care system using digital technology to transform the NHS and social care

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This year marks 25 years since stop smoking services were launched in England. Today’s new data gives us a timely look at what these services are doing- and why they still matter.👇 digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

Why do we tolerate the activities of the gambling industry? This article explains how gambling policy in the UK perpetuates exceptionalism by, among other things, promoting a way of understanding the drivers of…

Why do we tolerate the activities of the gambling industry?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Perils of pragmatism. More research prolongs a crisis
Guns and slot machines: One claims safety, the other claims fun
Extraction to extinction
The flow of data

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Precision public health must get political As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG W...

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A heat map of diabetes does not improve access to nutritional food or reshape the commercial landscape promoting ultraprocessed foods in low income areas. A wearable heart rate monitor tracking variability cannot counter harms of exploitative labour or precarious housing

High-street slot machines reap record takings as councils call for power to curb spread Local authorities want government to make it easier to stop flurry of ‘adult gaming centres’ targeting poorer areas

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Cancer breakthroughs mean disease ‘no longer a death sentence’ Professor Sir Stephen Powis believes that an impending ‘treatment revolution’ means that more cures will be found

Outgoing NHS Medical Director Prof Sir Powis highlights the importance of prevention, noting that measures like the smoking ban for younger generations could help eliminate certain cancers.
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Use of vapes has stalled in the last year. 10% of adults vape 7% of teens vape

🚨New vaping data published today🚨

Vaping has stalled in adults and children. What does this mean?
➡️More needed to reduce use by teens.
➡️Potential underuse by adults smokers as effective quit aid.

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Our new data on vaping prevalence highlights the urgency of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. It's time to reduce their appeal to children and reclaim vaping as a quit aid.

Three Biggest Killers – Regional Toolkit - ASH This toolkit was developed by ASH, the Obesity Heath Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) working with colleagues in Humber and North Yorkshire and Greater Manchester to support region...

Great webinar this morning from @ashorguk.bsky.social, @oha-updates.bsky.social & @aha-uk.bsky.social as they launch their new toolkit on "Addressing the Three Biggest Killers on a Regional and Local Level".

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Each year, thousands of people in our communities are harmed by the three big killers - tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink. But what can local health leaders do to respond? Read on to find out more… 👇

🎊Today England's Smokefree laws are 18 years old 🎊

This landmark legislation has led to significant health benefits by reducing exposure to second-hand smoke. 🚭

But more needs to be done to protect everyone from tobacco smoke exposure. (1/3)

Life expectancy: public health and politics Devi Sridhar's new book How Not to Die (Too Soon): The Lies We've Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us sets out her hope of living to the age of 100 years in good health “as a collective endeav...

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Life expectancy: PH & politics:
life expectancy “is much less about your own choices and is instead tightly linked to where you live and the political choices made by your government”.

We are largely reliant on govt to create the conditions within which we live

Make healthy food more appealing, government tells supermarkets Supermarkets will be challenged to sell healthier food, under a new government obesity plan.

The government has rightly identified the root cause of obesity-related ill health: a food system that makes healthy eating difficult

It would be great to see a comprehensive national #strategy

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The lifestyle triple-threat cutting 20 years from a person’s life

Approximately one million adults in England are at risk of significantly cutting 20 years from their lives by combining being overweight, excessive drinking, and smoking.

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Smoking, drinking too much and being overweight ‘puts one in 50 adults in England at risk of early death’ Exclusive: Research finds about 1 million people are living with ‘triple threat’ that increases risk of diseases such as cancer or diabetes

🚨Our new analysis with our partners @oha-updates.bsky.social & @aha-uk.bsky.social highlights the proportion of people living with multiple risk factors.

The 10-Yr Plan is an opportunity for Govt to bring in policies to make it easier to be healthy.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Why Alcohol Reduction Is Essential for a Smoke-Free Future - ASH Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.

At ASH our vision is for a world free from the harm of tobacco. Our DCE @carolinecerny.bsky.social explains why we are supporting Govt policies to reduce alcohol harm as an important part of achieving that vision.

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Each year, millions of lives are impacted or cut short from the effects of 3 risk factors: tobacco, alcohol and overweight/obesity.

We need comprehensive joined-up solutions that address the drivers, rather than blaming individuals.
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Triple threat of smoking, drinking and weight ‘puts a million in England at risk of early death’ Exclusive: Three risky behaviours can mean people dying 20 years earlier than they should, says senior doctor

The triple threat

Triple threat of smoking, drinking and weight ‘puts a million in England at risk of early death’

#3BiggestKillers

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Smoking leaves permanent traces in teeth deep below the surface - a new forensic Scientists have discovered that teeth retain permanent markers of smoking, offering new insights for forensics and archaeology.

www.earth.com/news/smoking...

Tobacco exposure killed more than 7m people in 2023, study finds Researchers say tobacco linked to about one in eight deaths worldwide and numbers rising sharply in some countries

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

tobacco linked to about one in eight deaths worldwide and numbers rising sharply in some countries