National Social Marketing Centre

The deadline for entries for the Health Service Journal Awards 2011 has been extended to 22 July.

Health professionals can reliably evaluate the value for money of their behaviour change campaigns and interventions, thanks to new tools from The NSMC.

The NSMC is running a one-day training session on value for money in behaviour change on 29 September. Delegates wishing to take advantage of an early bird discount must book before 12 August 2011.

Attachments: 

VfM training course outline.

VfM booking form.

A collaborative project which drew on expertise at Cardiff University to reduce the incidence of deliberate grassfires in South Wales has won the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Excellence award for Best Public Sector Campaign.

Anne Milton MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, has praised The NSMC’s ‘excellent work’.

The NSMC is one of the sponsors of the 2nd World Non-Profit and Social Marketing Conference and for the next two days we'll be there among friends and colleagues from around the world delivering various presentations and workshops. 

Our new Value for Money and One Stop Shop resources are now available online.

The NSMC has responded to the government's consultation on the public health white paper.

More than 500 designers, architects and industry providers have already registered their interest in the Reducing violence and aggression in A&E by design challenge.

The NSMC's online tool for assessing the cost-effectiveness of social marketing and behaviour change programmes is nearing completion.

It has been successful piloted with a smoking social marketing project in North West England. Pilots for obesity, breast feeding and alcohol projects are currently in progress. A bowel cancer project pilot is about to begin.