Transcript Sefton Primary Care Trust

Working with the NHS to
improve health
Dr Janet Atherton
Director of Public Health
Sefton Council and Primary Care Trust
Creating healthier organisations
• Staff
• Service users/patients
• Wider community
Sefton Primary Care Trust
Improving health
Reducing health inequalities
Engaging local communities
High quality services
Value for money
Population 280,000
Budget £450 million
One of 5 PCTs in Merseyside
Coterminous with Council
CHaMPs
• Cheshire and Merseyside Partnerships for Health
• Public Health Network
• Steering Group and Directors of Public Health
Group
• Collaborative network of all PCTs, Councils and
wider partners in Cheshire and Merseyside aiming
to improve health
Partnership with Merseyside
Fire and Rescue Service
• Recognising we have shared goals
– Tackling health inequalities
• Identifying goals we can’t achieve on our own or
are better delivered in partnership
• Resources each partner can bring to bear
Merseyside Fire and Rescue
Service
• Vision – making Merseyside a safer stronger and healthier
community
• Mission – to work in partnership to provide and excellent
affordable service to all the diverse communities on
Merseyside that will:
– Reduce risk
– Respond
– Restore
How we can work together?
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CHaMPs Top Tips for Healthier Workplaces
Healthier children
Healthier older people
Reducing smoking
Safer Communities – Advocates programme
Why Healthier Workplaces?
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Benefit employer and employee
Reduce sickness absence
Improve workplace relations
Allow staff to be more productive
Improve recruitment and retention
Top Tips
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Promoting equality in the workplace
Tackling obesity
Improve mental health and well-being
Dealing with drug and alcohol use
Smokefree workplaces
Liverpool
• Wide ranging partnership commended by Health
Inequalities National Support Team
– Fire Fit Kids
– Links with Stop Smoking services
– New Gym in fire station
– Personal health trainers etc
Knowsley – IKAN project
Wirral – StartRight project
Wirral
Sefton Action Plan
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Healthy children and young people
– Fire Fit Kids – linked to MEND programme
– Links with Healthy Schools Programme
Reducing deaths from major killers
– Cardiac rehabilitation services and community weight management
– Home Safety Checks – training for brief interventions for smoking, drugs and alcohol,
promotion of flu immunisation
Improving quality of life for older people
– Advocacy post – reducing falls
– Affordable warmth
– Links with migrant communities
– Fire service volunteers trained to give health information
Thank you
• For further information:
• [email protected]
• www.champs-for-health.net