Health Inequalities National Support Team Feedback

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Keighley Health Well Being Local Action
Partnership Tracy Higgins Community
Development Manager, Bradford Airedale
Teaching Primary Care Trust Email
tracy.higgins_at_bradford.nhs.uk Tel [phone]


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What is a Health Well Being Local Action
Partnership?

• An equal partnership of organisations and
  individuals with and interest in the health and
  well being of people living within a
  geographically defined area of high inequality or
  a specific community of interest i.e homeless
  people

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Why do we need one in Keighley?

• To address local health inequalities and
  facilitate improvement in the health and well
  being of people living and working in Keighley
• To promote and support a more coordinated and
  joined up approach to health and well being
  services, activities and initiatives
• To ensure local health needs inform and influence
  service planning, commissioning and delivery by
  mainstream providers
• To ensure locally based organisations responsible
  for delivering health and well being services
  take a strategic and holistic approach to
  delivering high quality and complimentary services

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How would it work?

• Core group of key stakeholders
• Wider network of organisations and individuals
• Host Organisation
• Chaired by an elected member
• 4 meetings a year
• Bi annual public event/activity
• Bi annual coming together of H W LAPs across
  the District

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What it could do?

• Map the services and support structures for
  health and well being in Keighley and identify
  gaps and unmet needs
• Bring agencies and people together to join up and
  better co-ordinate services and activities, share
  good practice and reduce duplication
• Encourage and support the health components of
  local plans to be actioned i.e Neighbourhood
  Action Plans
• Provide mechanisms for disseminating and
  publicising health and well being messages and
  information
• Become a recognised consultee on strategic and
  other matters
• Provide an infrastructure to engage with
  strategic level partnership work and tPCT
  commissioning

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Next Steps

• Complete section on your evaluation form
• Contact me for more information if required
• More details to follow in Conference Report so
  another opportunity to register your interest
• First meeting to be held early in the New Year