Improving Population Health

Improving Population Health

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Our commitment to improve population health underpins the work of the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and is supported by partners spanning the NHS, local government, adult social care, employment support, and VCSE coming together to build a culture of partnership and broad collaborations to promote and support holistic care.

Our work

Our work to improve population health is divided into three areas:

Priorities

Our focus us on addressing the broad health and social care needs of our local population. We focus on long-term ways to improve the overall health of our area. This goes beyond treating sickness, to tackling the causes of ill health such as employment, environment, and housing issues. The ICP strategy will be the guide for us when making decisions, commissioning and delivering services.

The challenges

We want to give all children the best start to life

Together, we can enable children to thrive into adulthood, supporting physical, mental and social development

We want to enable adults to take ownership of health and wellbeing and achieve their potential

We want everybody to remain independent, active and connected in their communities with a plan for later life

We will maximise health and wellbeing in the later years of life

Aims and outcomes

  • We are committed to improving outcomes in population health and care
  • We are committed to tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access to health care
  • We are enhancing productivity and value for money
  • We want to help the NHS to support broader social and economic development.

Key themes:

We have identified five key things we need to change if we are going to make a difference. We firmly believe that communities are the best medicine. Our themes have been developed to take account of that. Looking at prevention, for example, we can promote healthy decision making for our local population. And when it comes to our neighbourhoods we will work with local people and our communities so they become healthy, supportive and thriving:

People and communities working with people and communities to empower them to build healthy, supportive and thriving neighbourhoods

Personalised care holistic, integrated care designed around personal needs and preferences

Personal responsibility working with individuals to empower them to make healthy choices and manage their health and wellbeing as an active partner

Prevention and inequalities promoting healthy decision-making, optimisng health and wellbeing, and ensuring fair and equal access for all

Productivity make best use of resources and targeting those in greatest need, or with greatest ability to benefit.

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To learn more, please email ssotics.comms@staffsstoke.icb.nhs.uk