Working with the NHS to improve health

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Working with the NHS to improve health

• Dr Janet Atherton
• Director of Public Health
• Sefton Council and Primary Care Trust

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Creating healthier organisations

• Staff
• Service users/patients
• Wider community

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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

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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

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Partnership with Merseyside Fire and Rescue
Service

• Recognising we have shared goals
• Tackling health inequalities
• Identifying goals we cant achieve on our own or
  are better delivered in partnership
• Resources each partner can bring to bear

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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

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How we can work together?

• CHaMPs Top Tips for Healthier Workplaces
• Healthier children
• Healthier older people
• Reducing smoking
• Safer Communities Advocates programme

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Why Healthier Workplaces?

• Benefit employer and employee
• Reduce sickness absence
• Improve workplace relations
• Allow staff to be more productive
• Improve recruitment and retention

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Top Tips

• Promoting equality in the workplace
• Tackling obesity
• Improve mental health and well-being
• Dealing with drug and alcohol use
• Smokefree workplaces

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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

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Knowsley IKAN project
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Wirral
Wirral StartRight project
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Sefton Action Plan

• 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

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Thank you

• For further information
• janet.atherton_at_seftonpct.nhs.uk
• www.champs-for-health.net