Partnership Exchange (11th July) Feedback for Health

Sustainable Community Strategy & Local area agreement 2008

Partnership Exchange

Workshop Feedback

Theme: Healthier Communities

Critical issues discussion

Transport/Health:

· Exercise-physical activity

· Reducing road injuries

· Promoting access to goods and services

· Reducing pollution

· Promoting social networks and community activity/reducing severance in local communities

· Providing a healthy environment

· Reducing health inequalities

· Transport – physical environment – important for better access to disabled

· Road Injuries – trauma to friends and families as well, prevention issues

Economic Strategic Partnership – critical to everything

Carers/Disability not mentioned

· VCS should have been involved earlier on

· Disability was considered as part of Health

· Higher proportion of disabled children – some families with multiple disabilities

Mental Health – holistic view needed

· Older people need mental stimulation

· Mental Health – Drugs and alcohol – catch 22 situation – young men singled out (evidence to back it up)

Life events

· Bereavement can change everything, income etc.

Local delivery – locality planning more effective in joined up working

· clear infrastructure in place to make it happen

· Need better targeting and how to do it

· More joint thinking

· Energy & Trust – what transport issues are, different partnerships have energy to tackle particular issues

· looking for opportunities – new ways of connecting services

Children’s Health/Families

· Roles & Responsibilities of Parents

· Needs to be linked into education

Deprivation and inequality

· Income is crucial to choices/options

· People have limited resources so what are priorities for them?

· New Migrant communities and getting information to them

· Individual responsibility

· gap is increasing between healthy & unhealthy

· Income/jobs/economy – offering opportunities to move into economic groups, vocational services etc. – closing the gap

· Opportunities to use sporting facilities

Partnership Development – more effort needs to be made via LSP and within partners at different levels

· References need to be made through all issues, e.g. transport, health etc. – linkages

· Best Value for resources

· identify resources from partnerships

Sexual Health – this also makes reference to teenage pregnancies

· alcohol and drugs also linked to unwanted pregnancies and can be from all age groups, not just teenagers

Restrictions on promotions of unhealthy lifestyles – needs discussion with central government

Prevention of illness through work

Genetic Counselling/Choice/how to break through barriers

Quality & targeting information – more availability and access

Deprivation & Obesity – Economic/Planning – no more cheap takeaway outlets

Heart Disease – will be tackled by all methods etc. e.g. reduction in smoking

Housing/Warmth Strategy – impact would be enormous – choosing intervention and investment

Health is related to all areas – how is it connecting to all others at different levels – health impact/info sharing

Barriers

· Can District commit to join up at local level/constituencies/Area Panels – local planning, how does it happen?

· How to get clarity on what is happening and who is doing what

· Challenge and accountability

· Access to services – joint working

· Hospitals – Transport – no direct bus routes to hospitals

· Housing – sharing info, data protection issues

· Publishing info – Consultancy – can cover info sharing, how are we tackling sharing info

· Inequalities – addressing them, target those effected by individual groups

· Narrow the gap – how? – different ways of working

· Personal choice – how society put message across

For a copy of the workshop feedback from all the themes please email health@bradfordcvs.org.uk