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Pillar 3 - partnership working on wider determinants of health

Pillar 3 - Partnership working on wider determinants of health

This workstream looks at: working with partners to maximise the opportunities to increase healthy behaviours in our communities and embed a preventative approach, including better targeting and signposting, addressing gaps in service provision and improving staff skills in making every contact count

This workstream will:

  • Allow everyone to stay independent and in charge of their health as much as possible. THis includes easy access to culturally relevant local advice and practical support  which can make a big difference in staying well, and speeding up recovery from illness.
  • Encourage healthy behaviours in pregnancy and childhood can improve health outcomes in later life.
  • Improve health outcomes for residents experiencing low income, social exclusion and racial discrimination. Who have higher risks of preventable illness and premature death from obesity, from smoking tobacco and from vaccine-preventable infections.
  • Support residents to make informed choices and changes in their environment and lifestyle that can reduce the risk of illness to themselves and their families. Our ambition is to prevent ill health in higher risk communities, so that more residents stay healthy and independent longer.

This workstream looks at: developing volunteering across our communities, promoting the role volunteering plays in the health and wellbeing of both volunteers and those receiving support.

It also looks at supporting the third sector to be effective partners within the ICS, working with other grassroots organisations.

This workstream will:

  • Support the third sector to be an effective partner, with representation at ICB, ICP, BBP and neighbourhood level, to enable engagement in strategic planning and support to deliver on Anchor ambitions.
  • Promote volunteering as a key part of the workforce, as well as recognising and promoting the role volunteering plays in the health and wellbeing of both volunteers and those receiving support from volunteers.
  • Support inclusive access to volunteering: including SEND, refugees and asylum seekers, areas of high deprivation.

The Impact of volunteering in NW London ICS - a year in review can be found here.

This workstream looks at: NW London Anchor Institution is working in partnership with the ICS to reduce health inequalities and improve wider determinants of health through influencing local social economic conditions by adapting the way we employ people, purchase goods and services, and use building and spaces.

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  • Develop partners as anchor institutions, taking into account inequalities and wider determinants of health.
  • Reduce unemployment: building skills and providing local employment opportunities in health and social care to people from our most disadvantaged communities.
  • Increase local procurement, building in social value.
  • Support community groups with paid use of community venues for NHS partnership meetings.
  • Promoting the update of benefits to support families through the cost of living.
  • Provide a joint approach to improving housing conditions.

The West London Employment Expo was held in Febraury. A news story about the event can be found here.

Click here to access the cost of living campaign.

 

This workstream looks at: Working in partnership across the ICS to ensure no one gets left behind with the expansion of digital services in the NHS. It wil do this by building on existing support to equip residents with the skills, access and connectivity they need to engage with digital services, whilst also making NHS services more accessible and easy to use. 

This workstream will:  build on existing support to equip residents with the skills, access and connectivity they need to engage with digital services, whilst also making NHS services more accessible and easy to use.

 

 

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