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Healthy Places, Healthy Lives Dr Catherine Hannaway Senior Fellow, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
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Healthy Places, Healthy Lives Dr Catherine Hannaway Senior Fellow, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Healthy Places, Healthy Lives is a national programme to improve health inequalities through commissioner-led actions on the wider and social determinants of health. The programme brings together the expert knowledge of the Health Inequalities National Support Team (HI NST), Local Government Improvement & Development (LG ID) and the NHS Institute For Innovation And Improvement (NHSI), in addition to access to the findings of the Marmot Review and national Total Place programme.
Reduce health inequalities and improve health and well-being for all. Policy Goals Create an enabling society that maximises individual and community potential. Ensure social justice, health and sustainability are at heart of policies. Policy objectives 1) Give every child the best start in life. 2) Enable all children, young people & adults to maximise their capabilities & control their lives. 3) Create fair employment & decent work for all. 4) Ensure healthy standard of living for all. 5) Create and develop healthy and environmentally sustainable places & communities. 6) Strengthen the role and impact of ill-health prevention. Policy mechanisms Equality & health equity in all policies. Effective evidence-based delivery systems.
Healthy Places Healthy Lives (HPHL) Early Detection of Cancer in Hartlepool Louise Wallace Assistant Director Health Improvement
Partnership HPHL – one example of partnership and collaborative working to solve complex public health issue Hartlepool, like many other places across North East, have a long tradition of strong partnership working Complexity of many public health problems – it is essential to have effective partnerships to get outcomes
HPHL – what are we trying to achieve together? Improve awareness – early detection of lung and bowel cancer Reduce inequalities – access and outcome Measurable, demonstrable Legacy - sustainable
Where do you begin? Scope key stakeholders – who is interested Get buy in Pool baseline information, evidence, gap analysis Agree a realistic, measurable aim Plan how to get there Know when you have been successful
Who is a partner? Patient/Public Clinicians Community Leaders Public Health Politicians Specialists Practitioners Funders Managers Policy Makers PCT/LA Public Health Intelligence Academics Cancer Network
How do you harness them together? Check what you want from them, what they are able to bring and take away from involvement Ways to do this: event steering group communication Shared learning
Challenges Time/many other competing issues Political change Who is future influencer/funder Who has capacity Momentum Right balance of skills at right time Recognising each persons/partners contribution
All partnerships need: Leadership Co-ordination Give and take Tolerance Awareness of cultural differences Momentum/drive/conviction mandate Tangible outcomes Realistic resources