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Improving Health Services for Herts Valleys Population

Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group aims to enhance the health and well-being of its population through preventive measures, supporting self-care, and closer collaboration between healthcare and social care services.

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Improving Health Services for Herts Valleys Population

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  1. Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group • Population of nearly 600,000 patients registered with one of 70 GP practices in: • Dacorum • Hertsmere • St Albans and Harpenden • Watford and Three Rivers

  2. Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group

  3. The health of our population • Generally better than the England average • Deprivation is lower than average, however, more than 16,000 children live in poverty • Life expectancy for both men and women is higher than the England average

  4. The health of our population • Life expectancy nearly 8 years lower for men and 5.9 years lower for women in the most deprived areas • Mortality rates have fallen and early death rates from cancer, heart disease and stroke are better than the England average • 14.9% of Year 6 children are classified as obese • Around 20% of adults smoke and 19.6% are obese. • There were 6559 hospital stays for alcohol related harm in 2009/10 and there are about 700 deaths from smoking each year

  5. Our priorities In line with the priorities of Hertfordshire’s Health and Wellbeing Board, our priorities include: • physical activity and obesity, particularly among younger people • helping the older population to maintain their health • continuing to reduce levels of smoking

  6. Our priorities • Preventing people from dying prematurely • Enhancing quality of life for people with long term conditions • Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury • Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care • Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm • Ensuring people have access to appropriate unplanned care services

  7. What are we doing? • Looking at providing better services in a different way • Specialist services on fewer hospital sites • Emphasis on preventing ill-health • Supporting self care • Closer working between health and social care • Commitment to public involvement

  8. What are our challenges? • Ageing population • Increase in demand – new medicines and treatments • Smaller increases in health budgets than we have been used to with rising costs • Unplanned care

  9. And our opportunities? New clinically-led organisation with an enthusiastic team A “bank” of interested and motivated patients, carers and community stakeholders who want to help us achieve our priorities A chance to do things differently

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