Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership
Overview
In Clackmannanshire the CHP Committee has agreed to work on four key priorities during 2007.
1. Improving the health of local communities in Clackmannanshire
The key national and local priorities are to tackle coronary heart disease, poor diet, alcohol abuse, smoking, increase physical activity and to improve mental health.
We know that poverty and deprivation are linked to ill health and our priority is to work with those at most risk of becoming ill.
Anticipatory Care means spotting risk factors and tackling them through health promotion and prevention, rather than waiting for the illness to take hold. This approach is considered by clinicians to be vital to future wellbeing. An Anticipatory Care project is being planned and will be based in Tullibody.
2. Extending joint working
Working in partnership with other people and organisations is seen as very important. Our key priorities are:
- To improve local mental health services to make it easier for people to be referred to the right service
- To look at the way older people are cared for in their communities and examine ways of supporting people at home and working with care homes to avoid the need for emergency admission to hospital.
3. Delivering more and better services locally in Clackmannanshire
We are committed to improving waiting times and people's access to services, particularly for those who suffer from long term conditions. Clackmannanshire CHP has agreed that this year we will target:
- Local mental health service referral process, ensuring faster access to the right services
- Improving local support and care services to people with cancer
- Looking at how the new community hospital planned for
- Clackmannanshire can deliver more services locally
- Improving sexual health services locally, with the aim of reducing the numbers of teenage pregnancies in Clackmannanshire
- Improving communication between hospital and community health services.
4. Demonstrating that the CHP is making a difference
This is a way of monitoring how effectively a CHP is performing. It is about ensuring measures are in place to meet any targets which have been set and being able to show that our Partnership is making a difference.
Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership Committee
Clackmannanshire Joint Health Improvement Plan
