Building Expertise

The development of more integrated policies and programmes to achieve social, economic and environmental regeneration has highlighted the need for more co-ordinated information and intelligence.

 

We work closely with the region’s Public Health Observatory – the Northwest Development Agency’s regional intelligence unit – and the regional arm of the Health Development Agency, both of which have important roles to play in developing effective arrangements within the North West to ensure the protection of public health and to oversee arrangements for communicable disease control

 

We want to ensure that measures to improve health and reduce inequalities become part of the North West’s mainstream performance management and inspection systems, particularly for those used by local government and the National Health Service. To achieve this, we are working to develop local partnerships and have placed an emphasis on both the wider determinants of health and the NHS’s own role as a major organisation.

We have also developed regional partnerships on the wider determinants of health, such as housing, poverty, transport, education and employment, in order to promote health and well-being, reduce health inequalities and dealing with health protection challenges.

This regional partnership is supported in the Memorandum of Understanding  (MOU) which seeks to:

• provide a shared vision for the whole of the North West by the continued integration and improvement of Public Sector service delivery across the Region.
• define the added value and collaborative advantage arising from combined strategic action or integrated service delivery across the health, well-being and social care sector and other Government functions at regional level.
• strengthen the health, well-being and social care sector contribution to wider social, environmental and economic priorities of the Region.