working with a press officer

Me, Denise, Alan and Christine had a meeting with Suman, she had come to talk to us about the press release that had been done for the none smoking day. Suman who is a worker as a Coventry NHS press officer. She looked at our press release and told us how she would change it slightly, so that the newspapers would be interested. Suman had come with some of the photos that MichelleTennison had taken and we were talking about how some were good and some not so good. Here are some of the photos that we all liked. Suman was also saying that she can offer one of the media group a placement with her team to see how a press office is run. Suman will be putting some of the photos into Health Matters, a magazine that Suman’s team do and send out to houses in Coventry.

Michelle's website is: http://www.tennisons.co.uk/

The photos show Maureen looking at the tar you get from smoking; the health buddies and Danny with Mohammed from the stop smoking team.

Health buddy training

I helped Manjeet, Danny and Rob to run the health buddy training on how to help people to stop smoking, I helped to set up the activities’ I was Danny’s health buddy and I was supporting him to give up smoking, I needed to try and convince him to come to the NHS and see the stop smoking team. It was only a role play as Danny does not smoke. The day was really good and I found that the presentation was interesting, at the end we all got a Goody bag, with lots of information.
I enjoyed the day.

Zoë