The Health Improvement partnership

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Brief description of the partnership

The Health Improvement Partnership will provide the main forum for the strategic overview and planning to improve the health and wellbeing of the population of Wiltshire. This will include the monitoring of specific activity and targets as set out within the Lives Not Services element of the Local Agreement for Wiltshire (LAW) and Local Area Agreement (LAA).

For more information about the LAW/LAA  and the Wiltshire Family of Partnership please follow the link Wiltshire Family of Partnerships

Priority actions for the Health Improvement Partnership within LAW

• Improve working across health and social care to provide more appropriate and local services, to help people recover, prevent hospital admissions and provide alternatives long term care
• Improve access to assessments and services for carers, and involve carers in developing services
• Support more people through direct payments/individual budgets to manage own care
• Improve access to services for people with dementia
• Improve access to primary care services for people with learning difficulties
• Improve services for disabled children and young people
• Encourage people to make positive lifestyle changes
• Implement universal Chlamydia screening programme for under 25s
• Work to understand deprived areas health needs and wants, implement a preventative scheme to influence the main causes of ill health and early death
• Working with children and young people: Improve sexual health, support mental well being by early attachment, promote resilience, reduce substance misuse, tackle obesity and improve healthy eating and exercise

Partnership members:

Chair: Councillor Keith Humphries, Cabinet Member for Health & Wellbeing

Members:

• Corporate Joint Director of Public Health & Wellbeing, NHS Wiltshire & Wiltshire Council
• Assistant Director, Public Health, NHS Wiltshire
• Public Health Consultant, NHS Wiltshire
• Public Health Business Manager, NHS Wiltshire
• CEO, Wiltshire & Swindon Activity &Sports Partnership
• Service Director, Amenities & Leisure, Wiltshire Council
• Head of Leisure, Wiltshire Council
• Sports Development Officer/Leisure Champion, Wiltshire Council
• Head of Heritage & Arts, Wiltshire Council
• Strategy Manager, Schools, Wiltshire Council
• PDE Team Manager, Children & Education, Wiltshire Council
• Health & Safety Manager, Wiltshire Council
• Performance Manager, Wiltshire Council
• Director, Age Concern Wiltshire
• Occupational Health Manager, Wiltshire Constabulary
• Head of Communications, NHS Wiltshire
• Communications member, Wiltshire Council
• Health & Wellbeing Partnership Project Manager, Wiltshire Council
• Service Director, Public Protection, Wiltshire Council
• Performance Specialist, Audit Commission
• Occupational Health Team Leader, Wiltshire Council
• Head of Crime Reduction & Community Protection, Wiltshire Council
• Corporate Development Manager, DCS, Wiltshire Council
• Operations Director, Selwood Housing
• Consortium Development Manager, Voluntary Sector

Details of meetings:

• 21 September 2009
• 11 January 2010
• 11 March 2010
• 30 June 2010
• 29 September 2010
• 14 December 2010
• 17 March 2011
• 15 June 2011
• 15 September 2011
• 12 December 2011

Agendas and minutes:

Please contact Sarah Fussell

Last updated: 25 March 2011