Supporting Health Theme Members of LSPs

The recent restructuring of health agencies and PCTs offers new opportunities for partnership working and defining and delivering a shared agenda on health.  A number of health outcomes can only be effectively delivered in partnership and LSPs are a key forum for this work.  However in many areas further work is needed to build a shared ownership and buy-in to health priorities by all partners and to strengthen the impact LSP partnership work makes on health issues.

The aim of this learning set is to provide a forum for PCT, Health Trust and LA Members of LSPs to explore the issues of effective partnership working. The agendas of the meetings will be determined by those attending, but we anticipate that key issues will include:

• What can be done to improve collaboration and real sign up to deliver health priorities?
• What will the impact of the new LAA framework be on the profile of health issues within LSPs?
• Addressing wider health inequalities issues that can only be effectively dealt with through collaboration with partners outside the NHS
• Shifting from reactive to preventative work.
• How to effectively engage the public in the partnership agenda.
• How to effectively engage key stakeholders in the health partnership agenda, who have been traditionally hard to engage with such as GP’s, PCT commissioners and elected members.

An information sheet about this set can be downloaded here  113Kb

Lead:  Ganesh Sathyamoorthy ganesh.sathyamoorthy@sharedIntelligence.net