Tri-borough Public Health Service

Funders’ Fair - 12th July 2013

What is Public Health?

• The science of using data and evidence base to work with different sizes and types of population

• The art of challenging how things are done and championing innovation

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Public Health Outcomes

“To improve and protect the nation’s health and wellbeing,and improve the health of the poorest fastest”

increased healthy life expectancy

reduced differences in life expectancy andhealthy life expectancy between communities

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1 Improvements against wider factors that affect health and wellbeing, and health inequalities

2 People are helped to live healthy lifestyles, make healthy choices and reduce health inequalities

3 The population’s health is protected from major incidents and other threats, while reducing health inequalities

4 Reduced numbers of people living with preventable ill health

and people dying prematurely, while reducing the gap between communities

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How?

School nursing

Testing and treatment of STIs

Sexual health advice, prevention and promotion

Mental health promotion

Nutrition

Physical Activity & Obesity Programmes

Drug & Alcohol Misuse

Tobacco Control

NHS Health Checks

Health at work

Oral health improvement5

What?

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Health Improvement Programmes include:•Health Trainers•Community Champions•Childhood Obesity•Stop Smoking

Spend with VCS providers £m

VCS Expenditure by PH Category£m

Substance Misuse Services = £12m

Health Improvement = £3.6m

Sexual Health = £2.3m

Current position

To do list

• Align with LA and NHS

• Think about pathways rather than discrete services

• Review existing contracts

• Identify gaps

• Prioritise and budget

• Procurement of PH portfolio over the next 18 months

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First steps

1 Ensure the qualities typical of those brought to the table by Third Sector providers are enabled

2 Improve our measurement of the “hard to measure” to inform decisions

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Relationships

• IndividualHistorical, likely to increasingly adopt borough and triborough “flavours”

• Sector

We need new mechanisms or to join existing ones at borough and triborough levels

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Characteristics ofa good relationship

• Honesty and accountability

• Open communication

• Negotiation and Fairness

• Economic Partnership

• Shared Responsibility

• Shared Power

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Public Health Contacts

• Pete Westmore 020 7641 4657

pwestmore@westminster.gov.uk Voluntary & Community Sector lead

• Ewan Jenkins 020 7641 4649Sexual Health Commissioner

• Joy Kyeyune 020 7641 4661HIV lead

• Julia Mason 020 7641 4653Families & Children

• Christine Mead 020 7641 4662Behaviour Change Commissioner

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London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham | The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea | Westminster City Council