How to Engage with Health……
Clive TurnerPlymouth Community Homes
Need for Sustainability
The New System
Role of Health & Wellbeing Board
• Undertake a joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Produce a joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy
• Promote integrated working between NHS and local government
A Vision for Everyone
“Happy Healthy Aspiring Communities”
Connects to City Vision
One of Europe’s Most Vibrant Waterfront Cities, Where an Outstanding Quality of Life can be
Enjoyed by All
Marmott Report: A Fair Society
• Giving every child the best start in life• Enabling everyone to have control over their
lives• Creating fair employment and good work for all• Ensure a healthy standard of living for all• Creating and developing sustainable places &
communities• Strengthen the role of ill-health prevention
Scope of Engagement
MIND
To be happy and have fun
To grow and develop
To learn
BODY
To be fit and healthy
To be economically successful
To prosper
SPIRIT
To have a sense of community
To have meaning in one’s life
To contribute
To leave a legacy
HEART
To aspire
To have friendship
To love
To engage
Get Involved 1
• Public health
• GPs
• Educate staff
• Tenant dialogue
• Ideas & innovation
• Healthwatch
Get Involved 2
• Strategic understanding
• Position your organisation
• Housing offer
• Gather data
• Influence commissioning
The Body Physical Health & Wellbeing
• Warm, dry, well insulated homes (< cold & damp related illness; < days sick and absent from school & work; < winter deaths)
• Safe outdoor playspace in gardens and playgrounds (active children, out in the sun < Vit D issues; < obesity; social space)
• “On the ground” links with Health colleagues (health participate in PCH NP events; “Eat on a budget” events; cooking clubs; gardening clubs; Timebankslaunching after May)
• Participate in and contribute to grassroots community events (walled garden and veg-growing projects; Ham Woods outdoor events with storytelling & environment themes)
• Smoking cessation – looking at innovative schemes for possible “smoke free tenancies”; supporting the “Smoke Outside” campaign
The Mind Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Library in the Beacon; links with community learning groups
• Involvement with Mayflower School
• “Right to Read” participation (using young male apprentices & tradespeople)
• Working with vulnerable people using FGC, so that mental health barriers can be recognised.
• Recognising the role employment plays in good mental health. Job Clubs, CSCS and Care Worker qualifications; employment via construction and Ranger placements; enterprise at the Beacon.
The SpiritSpiritual Health & Wellbeing
• Engaging and consulting, for community contribution on shaping “how NP will be”
• Maintaining and improving the “green” feel of NP, through tree preservation and future plans for PCH urban orchards / wildflower planting / food growing
• Using renewable energy, for economy and low-footprint legacy
• Potential art projects, relating to City of Culture bid
• Working to ensure that the legacy of the regeneration is a thriving, modern, desirable place to live & work.
The HeartSocial Health & Wellbeing
• Space for people to meet and socialise (The Beacon; play-parks; opening up the school for community events)
• Encouraging and supporting the community – staff working specifically in NP and building understanding & rapport
• Maintaining and improving the “green” feel of NP, through tree preservation and future plans for PCH urban orchards / wildflower planting / food growing
• Reduce isolation and loneliness by “easy to attend” events such as Learn for Free
Shared Ownership of Sustainability Agenda
• Partners together
• Promotion & prevention
• Engaging the public
• Avoid waste and improve commissioning