Transcript Food Hygiene for vulnerable groups initiative

Food Hygiene for Vulnerable Groups Initiative
(Over 60’s)
01/04/2016
Rationale for the Initiative
• Previous 5 + 1 Pack ‘Food and Healthy
Eating’
• FSA National Food Safety Week (2009)
• Theme ‘KEEPING FOOD SAFE’
• National Census Population Data
• HPA data
• Supported the ‘East Midlands Food and
Health Action Plan’
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Key Messages
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‘Use-by’ dates
Fridge temperatures
Storage instructions
Ready to eat food
Avoiding certain foods
Funding
• Close working with PCT
• LSP meetings – funding stream
• ‘Communities for Health’
funding £20,000 obtained
• Delivered at no cost to the
Council
• Target in Corporate Plan
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‘Gate-crashing’ approach
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Existing organised events
No cost for venue
‘Captive’ audience
Effective approach
20 minutes maximum
‘Freebies’ important
Mop-up
• Question and answer sessions
• Opportunity to signpost services
for older people
• Freebies
• Evaluation forms
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Numbers
• 1167 attended (only 91 male)
• 57 community groups contacted
– 47 booked
• 991 returned questionnaires
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Q3: What will you do differently as a result of
this presentation?
Regularly
%
Occasional
%
Rarely
%
Never
%
Check my
fridge
temperature
83.9
11.6
2.6
1.9
Check the
date on my
food
93.4
6.0
0.6
0.0
Keep raw
and cooked
food
separate
97.0
1.9
0.6
0.4
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Further questionnaires
• Sent out to group leaders
• Asking whether the group members
continue to carry out these tasks
• Carried out by show of hands
• 313 respondents from 14 groups
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Results
How many members of
the group still check
their fridge
temperatures?
90%
How many members of
the group still check the
dates on their food?
88%
How many members of
the group still keep raw
and cooked foods
separate?
87.5%
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HPA Data
• Supplied data for food poisoning in
over 65’s in Bolsover in 2009 and 2010
• Rate in 2009 was 63.05 (per 100,000)
• Rate in 2010 was 47.29 (per 100,000)
• Based on HPA’s figure of 12,688 over
65’s living in Bolsover
• Not statistically significant and could
be due to other environmental factors
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And finally…………..
Benefits included:
• Raised profile of Environmental
Health and other Council services
• Fostered good relations with
community groups
• Initiative designed to allow delivery
to other vulnerable groups
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Any Questions?
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