PUBLIC HEALTH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN SURREY AND SUSSEX

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• PUBLIC HEALTH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN SURREY
  AND SUSSEX
• DIANA GRICE
• YVONNE ARTHURS
• December 2004

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Health Inequalities in Surrey and Sussex

• Relative health inequalities
• Hastings
• Most deprived areas Brighton
• Crawley
• Older people

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Actions to tackle Health Inequalities

• Regional Public Health initiatives
• Health inequality strategy
• Public Health performance assessment
• Local actions by Primary Care Trusts

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Regional Public Health initiatives

• Tobacco control strategy
• Framework for action on physical activity
• SE Food and Health Action Plan
• Teenage pregnancy strategy.

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Public Health Performance Framework

• Assesses the Public Health function in the 6
  dimensions of Public Health
• Health needs assessment
• Improving health through health promotion
• Health protection and reducing health
  inequalities
• Creating cross governmental partnerships
• Effective Local Strategic Partnerships
• Public Health leadership, capability and capacity

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Public Health Assessment Framework

• The Process
• Developed with DPHs in Surrey Sussex and across 4
  SE SHAs
• Partnership with GOSE
• Assessment with CEs, DPHs and their team

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Public Health Assessment Framework

• The Results
• Public health leadership
• Public health capacity and capabilty of the
  workforce
• Health protection

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Scores from Public Health Performance Framework
2004
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Partnerships to reduce health inequalities

• Common understanding of issues
• Jointly agreed targets
• Mechanism for monitoring (incl. information
  flows)
• Senior staff involvement at strategic level
• Joint development/training
• Joint posts/focused management
• Pooled budgets

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Issues

• LSPs at different stages of development
• PCTs relating to 2 or more LSPs
• Need to align all performances
• assessment process
• Potential of LAAs

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Conclusions

• Vision and inequalities strategy
• Performance assessment process
• Issue How to better influence partnerships
  to improve health?

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