A Council that recognises its current roles and develops people and systems to respond to the health improvement challenge will have features that include:
- Strengthened member capacity for community leadership on health improvement
- The Council harnesses the capacity of the corporate health improvement group, co-ordinating the totality of resources from the local public health team, the local health board, the voluntary sector and others
- Senior managers and policy officers have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to take forward health improvement and cross-cutting issues
- Those directly managing and delivering frontline services know how they can improve health through their work
Please select from the case studies below:
Providing an integrated primary care and social care centre - Conwy
Developing broader health- based information and intelligence through the creation of a joint post with the local University - Ynys Mon
Establishing an employee health group to drive health awareness programmes across the Council, linked to the Corporate Health Standard – Neath Port Talbot
Linking older people’s mental health services into WSCWB strategies - Rhondda Cynon Taff
Developing and implementing a BME physical activity project - Cardiff