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Health and Wellbeing in West Cheshire


NHS Reforms: background and local context
The NHS White Paper, Equity and Excellence, Liberating the NHS, published in July 2010, set out proposals for substantial structural change to the organisation and delivery of health and care services, which includes significant enhancement of the role of Local Authorities in health and the establishment of a Health and Wellbeing Board.

On 14th July 2011, the Government published Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Update and way Forward, a policy statement in response to the public health White Paper consultation process and the NHS reforms listening exercise.  The report confirms the Government's commitment to improving public health and tackling inequalities.  The report sets out detail on the following:-

View Healthy Lives, Health People: Update and way forward 


The Health and Wellbeing Board
The creation of a Health and Wellbeing Board will bring together elected representatives, local HealthWatch (who will represent people who use services) and health and social care commissioners, such as GPs and the Director of Public Health, to plan the right services for West Cheshire.

The Health and Wellbeing Board for Cheshire West and Chester will assume shadow status from October 2011 and will be responsible for:-


Public Health News
The aim of this fortnightly newsletter is to provide parters with the latest developments from the local Public Health Team in Western Cheshire.  If there are any issues you would like us to cover, please contact Claire Wildgoose, NHS Western Cheshire Partnership Manager.

 

Resources

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) process aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of local current and future needs for adults and children to inform commissioning. The Cheshire West and Chester Joint Strategic Needs Assessment web pages contain information and data on the population of West Cheshire and cover areas such as social and environmental factors, lifestyle and risk factors and burdens of ill health and disease.

The Annual Public Health Report 2011 comes in two parts.  Part one looks at health and wellbeing across the localities, focussing on the five Area Partnership Board areas and highlighting the challenges that people in different areas face and celebrate the successes.  Part two is in the form of a technical report for commissioners and decision makers, providing a summary of avoidable and preventable deaths within West Cheshire. 

The Annual Public Health Report 2010 comments on the major communicable disease challenges facing the residents of West Cheshire – food poisoning, water borne infections, mumps and measles - and makes recommendations on how many of these diseases could be avoided with measures such as good hand hygiene and making sure vaccinations are up to date.