Teenage Pregnancy Team win award

NHS Walsall’s and Walsall’s Children’s Services Teenage Pregnancy Team is celebrating after winning an award for their teenage pregnancy media campaign work at the Excellence in Public Health 13th Annual Conference entitled ‘ Tackling Childhood Health  Inequalities’.

The team were asked to submit examples of work they had done and beat off the competition to win a prize for the best poster that can be replicated in other NHS areas.  The winning poster ‘the twelve days of Christmas’ outlines the story of a young girl who was dumped by her boyfriend on the twelfth day and was left with a series of presents including an unwanted pregnancy.

Diane Osborne, Teenage Pregnancy Programme Lead for NHS Walsall, said: “The team were thrilled to win an award at such a prestigious event. Our teenage pregnancy media campaigns have proved successful in both raising awareness of services and increasing attendance. The ‘twelve days of Christmas’ campaign was incredibly well received and provoked a huge number of compliments from both young people and professionals.”  

Submissions from across the region were showcased during the event and judged by a number of individuals including: West Midlands Regional Director of Public Health Dr Rashmi Shukla,  Julia Spencer Child Poverty Lead Government Office West Midlands and Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown from University of Warwick.