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Lay people in public health

Lay people in public health. Liam Hughes, National Adviser for Healthy Communities. Healthy Communities Programme. Using the methods of the IDeA Building capacity and competency in local government Focus on health inequalities and health improvement Working with the public health family.

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Lay people in public health

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  1. Lay people in public health Liam Hughes, National Adviser for Healthy Communities

  2. Healthy Communities Programme Using the methods of the IDeA Building capacity and competency in local government Focus on health inequalities and health improvement Working with the public health family

  3. Lay people in public health • What works? – some examples. • What should the public sector do to support lay activity for health? • Lay people as volunteers, expert patients and paid staff.

  4. Coventry Derwentside Greenwich Merseyside Fire and Rescue Sheffield Sunderland What works? – the Beacons for Health Equality

  5. Leadership, people and places Partnership with purpose Community engagement Learning and sharing Systematic roll-out Strategic information Outcomes, turning the curve Lay involvement in health improvement Beacon Attributes

  6. Sheffield First community health champions Coventry Asian women`s health Sunderland health and wellbeing centres “Activemobs” in Kent Blackpool and sexual health in the LGTB community Natural England and “fat mens` pub walks” Merseyside Fire and Rescue - keep fit in schools Examples – hundreds and hundreds!

  7. Workplace health: -Caradon -Barnsley Health everyone`s business: -Greenwich Communities for health And hundreds more!

  8. What should the public sector do? • Listen and learn from good practice • Design-in opportunities for lay people • Use the opportunity of World Class Commissioning - competencies 2 and 3 • Enrol enthusiasts from all areas of service

  9. What should local government do? • Use elected members as health champions • Build the bridge with WCC to influence health service colleagues • Support the Directors of Public Health • Incorporate the value of lay public health into Sustainable Community Strategies, the JSNAs and LAAs.

  10. And finally: • Research and evaluation • More research and evaluation • Action, action, action.

  11. IDeA • Knowledge website • Sue Johnson/Susan Biddle susan.biddle@idea.gov.uk sue.johnson@idea.gov.uk • Liam Hughes liam.hughes@idea.gov.uk • Healthy Communities Team dale.park@idea.gov.uk

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