The Public Health Collaboration

Without further ado I'd like to introduce you to the founding members and advisory board of the PHC...

Dr. Trudi Deakin – Dietitian

Trudi is Chief Executive of the registered charity X-PERT Health, which specialises in structured education for the public and healthcare professionals.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra – Cardiologist

Known as one of the most outspoken cardiologists in Britain and an expert in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, Dr Aseem Malhotra is successfully leading the campaign against excess sugar consumption.

Dr. Tamsin Lewis – Psychiatrist

Medical Doctor (Kings College, London) and former GB Elite triathlete. Specialist Interest : 4P medicine. Preventative, Proactive. Ironman triathlon winner, mum and entrepreneur.

Dr. Ayan Panja – General Practitioner

A career GP, Dr. Panja has been a doctor for 17 years having qualified from the Imperial College School of Medicine. He is a partner in a busy city centre NHS surgery. He also presents Health Check, a round up of global health stories on BBC News and BBC World News.

Dr. Jen Unwin – Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Unwin has worked in the NHS for nearly 30 years. She believes that patients who are able to maintain their hopefulness and emotional well-being experience fewer symptoms, take less medication, consult less and even live longer.

Dr. Kailash Chand OBE – General Practitioner

Dr. Chand OBE is the first Asian deputy chair of the BMA and is also, Chair of Health watch Tameside.

Dr. Katharine Morrison – General Practitioner

Dr. Morrison is a senior practising GP. Her son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 10 years ago, and since then she have worked extensively with people living with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Dr. David Unwin – General Practitioner

A GP based in Southport, Dr. Unwin is the RCGP National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes, as well as a Clinical Expert in diabetes. In 2016 he won the NHS ‘Innovator of the Year Award’ NW England.

Dr. Joanne McCormack – General Practitioner

Dr. McCormack has been a GP for 24 years. She was also a GP Trainer, and now works as a Named GP for Safeguarding Children for an area of 300,000 people.

Dr. Ian Lake – General Practitioner

A GP in Cheltenham, Dr. Lake has had a long term interest in preventive medicine. He set up a weight management research project in primary care a project that won the GP Awards Clinical Team of the Year, Nutrition award in 2012.

Prof. John (Iain) Broom DSc, MBChB, FRCPath, FRCP(Glas), FRCPE.

Prof. Broom is currently the Director of the Centre for Obesity Research and Epidemiology (CORE) at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

He has published over 200 papers in the areas of the metabolic response to injury, sepsis and cancer; the clinical management of diabetes, dyslipidaemia and obesity.

Sam Feltham

Three years ago I started having conversations with many of our founding members below about how we can start creating real change in the UK for improving the health of our nation, which is getting worse year upon year despite all of our best efforts.

The one thing that we kept going back to, was to collaborate our efforts into one singular organisation, to inform the public and empower the medical community on the science and solutions of health. Over a melting pot of ideas we founded the Public Health Collaboration, or the PHC for short.

The Board of Directors includes many well known representatives of the health practitioners community. Several of them have expert profiles in the Open Future Health website.

The Public Health Collaboration, is strongly supported by many doctors and health researchers in the UK.

Since then we have run two excellent conferences, and there is a 2018 conference planned for Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th May, 2018.

There are also three publications, "Health Eating Guidelines and Weight Loss Advice for the United Kingdom." (40 pages), "Eat Fat, Cut the Carbs and Avoid Snacking to Reverse Type II Diabetes." (Booklet 19 pages.), and a four page leaflet, "Real Food Lifestyle."

Cardiologists and diabetes educators who are all well connected to help make a difference. The PHC also wants to engage more nutritional therapists to work alongside GP’s to support patients to become more empowered about their health and receive a more personalised model of medicine.

"Creating Change In Public Health"

Low Carb Down Under: Published on 2 Jun, 2017

"Achieving and Maintaining Nutritional Ketosis"

In the UK 25% of adults are obese, one of the highest prevalences in Europe, and type 2 diabetes has risen by 65% in the past 10 years with no sign of slowing down. Together they cost the NHS £16 billion a year and the UK economy at large £47 billion a year. These perilous percentages and shocking statistics have presented themselves despite the fact that as a population we are closely following the dietary advice that is being recommended to us.

Based on the latest National Diet and Nutrition Survey published in 2014 by Public Health England, our total food consumption is on average 383 calories below the recommended, our total fat consumption is just below the recommended 35%, we're just one portion shy of the recommended 5 fruits and vegetables a day, and lastly we're only 1 g over the recommended amount of daily red meat intake.

So it seems that we are generally following the advice we've been given, but it's not making us healthier! Arguably, the current advice has got us into our current sticky situation.

A complete overhaul is needed for our dietary advice based on the scientific evidence in order to improve our nation's health, and we believe that the PHC is the team for the job but that is only possible with your support.

"Geoff & Anthony Whitington - The Impact Of Collaboration"

Public Health Collaboration: Published on 30 Jun, 2016

To achieve their mission to inform and implement healthy decisions for better public health they produce reports and research, which informs and empowers patients and doctors. They review the NHS recommended Healthy Eating Guidelines and question what evidence is used and what the results are. As a nation we are told that we are more or less, eating the right amounts of fat, carbohydrates, red meat, fruit and vegetables but obesity and diabetes has significantly increased in the last 20 years.

The information that the Healthy Eating Guidelines gives us is clearly not working and many researchers question the conflict between the food companies and manufacturers that sit on the board for such guidance. An example of the work that can be accomplished by the PHC is supporting a GP/Nurse to advise patients with type 2 diabetes to follow a low carb, real food diet. They have seen that over time the surgery can spend £40,000 less on drugs for these patients. If all surgeries followed this example, the NHS could save £350m on diabetes drugs alone. The PHC has 12 scientific advisors on board which include GPs.