Health & Well-being Partnership

Chaired by Sokhjinder Kler, Chair of North Tyneside Primary Care Trust

The Health & Well-being Partnership (HWP) aims to improve the health of the whole community and reduce health inequalities. It is the responsibility of the HWP to develop a local plan for health improvement in North Tyneside, which takes into account national priorities, targets and standards. The Primary Care Trust and North Tyneside Council will provide leadership to deliver the Health Plan. Other public and private sector agencies together with the community and voluntary sector will work with them to ensure a whole system approach.

Improving health will require a strong emphasis on preventing ill health and on people making healthy choices. For example stopping smoking, being physically active, eating a healthy diet and drinking sensibly will help prevent disease and ultimately reduce pressure on the healthcare system. However, there is also a duty on partner organisations to help people make better health decisions. The aim is to remove the barriers to good health and create an environment that makes healthy choices easier.

View information on the North Tyneside Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

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Key objectives for 2005 - 2008

Reduce mortality from Circulatory Disease

  • Reduce obesity and overweight
  • Increase physical activity
  • Promote healthy eating
  • Reduce alcohol misuse

Reduce mortality from Cancer

  • Reduce smoking
  • Extend breast screening
  • Improve cervical screening
  • Introduce bowel screening

Promote mental health and well being

  • Promote mental health
  • Reduce suicides and
  • Reduce stigma and discrimination
  • Improve mental health in old age

Improve sexual health and well being

  • Reduce teenage conceptions
  • Reduce sexually transmitted infections and
  • Improve access to sexual health services

Improve the life chances of children

  • Improve antenatal care
  • Reduce smoking in pregnancy
  • Increase breastfeeding
  • Increase immunisation
  • Promote child health
  • Extend Healthy Schools
  • Reduce respiratory infections
  • Reduce accidents
  • Tackle substance misuse
  • Improve child and adolescent mental health
  • Improve the health of looked after children

Improve the quality of life of older people

  • Maintain independence
  • Reduce falls
  • Improve health and well being

Improve the health of disadvantaged groups and areas

  • Improve personal health
  • Improve access to Primary Care Services
  • Improve the health of vulnerable groups
  • Tackle the underlying causes of poor health
  • Audit and map health inequalities

The two key priorities, as agreed by the NTSP, are:

Obesity - to reduce obesity by improving the diet of the local population and increasing participation in physical activity.

Tobacco Control - to make North Tyneside a smoke-free borough by 2010 by preventing the uptake of smoking, protecting non-smokers from exposure to second hand smoke and providing help for people who want to stop smoking.

Members of the Health & Well-being Partnership

  • Theme Chair: Sokhjinder Kler, Chair of North Tyneside Primary Care Trust
  • Theme Co-ordinator: Ian Atkinson, Health Improvement Manager, North Tyneside Primary Care Trust

The group includes representatives from:

  • Age Concern North Tyneside (Community Network Representative)
  • Community and Health Care Forum (Community Network Representative)
  • IntoChange
  • Mediation in North Tyneside (Community Network Representative)
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Nexus
  • North East Ambulance Service
  • North of Tyne Patients Voice Advice & Liaison Service
  • North Tyneside Primary Care Trust
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Northumbria University
  • North Tyneside Carers Centre
  • North Tyneside Council
  • The Base, Barnados (Community Network Representative)

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