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Local Councils, Public Involvement and PH Priorities. Liam Hughes Networkidea. Outline of presentation. The new landscape for councils and public services Prioritizing public health improvement The Oldham story Health and Wellbeing Boards Building Health and Wellbeing Strategies
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Local Councils, Public Involvement and PH Priorities Liam Hughes Networkidea
Outline of presentation • The new landscape for councils and public services • Prioritizing public health improvement • The Oldham story • Health and Wellbeing Boards • Building Health and Wellbeing Strategies • Example – “Warm Homes Oldham”
The new public services landscape • Austerity – driver for change • New relationships across the public realm - Public Service Reform - Health and Wellbeing Boards • New relationships between local people and the local state • Public involvement – virtue and necessity!
Prioritizing public health • Size and scope of problem • Interdependencies of causes • Impact/cost-effectiveness • Strength of evidence • Impact on health and wellbeing • Speed of impact • Reducing health inequalities and • Public perspective (Kings Fund)
The Oldham Story • “Oldham is broken!”: – we need to fix it together! • A co-operative council and citizen involvement: - design, implementation, evaluation • Devolution and district partnerships • Strong partnerships: – local and Greater Manchester
Involving local people- mechanisms • Co-operative Commission • Public Services Board • 6 District Partnerships • 6 CCG Clusters • 4 Partnership Boards • Oldham Council and CCG • Voluntary Action Oldham
Involving Oldham People- methods • On-line dialogue with council • Members as sounding-boards and champions • Surveys, focus groups, workshops, community events, web events, rapid appraisal, ABCD… • Less well served groups (carers, mental ill health, people out of touch with GPs…) • Partners and council together
Building the Health and Wellbeing Strategy • Voluntary Action Oldham and VCF Partners • Health Commissions for Greater Manchester and Oldham • Council and CCG priorities • JSNA and DPH reports • Stakeholder events • District partnerships • Healthwatch • The HWB Members
Oldham`s Health and Wellbeing Strategy • Choosing the strategic framework: - people, places and PH practices • 3 phases of life-course: - best start in life - learning, living and working well - ageing well and later life care • 3 themes: - jobs/food/warm homes
Warm Homes Oldham- a joint investment agreement • Identified as a major issue in all consultations: - 14000+ households • Strong evidence about what works for fuel poverty – what about health? • Oldham Council, CCG and Oldham Housing Investment Partnership: - £200k with incentives for year 2 • Target 1000 people out of fuel poverty • Positive evaluation of ROI is emerging
Jobs and Food Staying in work Growing food Ready for work Cooking Procurement Eating well (Working in catering)
Some issues for Boards • This is a complex, adaptive system • Choosing priorities is hard to do • Big ticket items gain widespread support, less-common items are more difficult • Trade-offs and marginal decisions are problematic and decommissioning is difficult • Reconciling people and places can be tricky • Is the HWB the agent for public involvement, or should it work through existing mechanisms?