Professor Matt Ashton, Director of Public Health for Liverpool, and Professor Ian Ashworth, Director of Population Health for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, spoke at the Health Service Journal’s Integrated Care Summit this month. They highlighted how the health and care system in the subregion works together to reduce health inequalities and improve health and wellbeing. Well done both!
Well done also to Eustace de Sousa, an independent public health consultant working with the Champs Support Team, who presented the subregion’s situational analysis into the state of child poverty at the Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative conference. Other Integrated Care Systems, representatives from the Barnardo’s children’s charity and Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, learned more about the analysis and how the local system is dedicated to improving the state of poverty for the sake of our children and young people.
Cheshire and Merseyside’s unique model for improving health and wellbeing has been highlighted in a report from the King’s Fund, supported by The Health Foundation.
“Public health and population health – Leading together’ focuses on public health and population health leadership and explores various models that different areas have adopted, some more successful than others.”
“The Collaborative’s unique model has been praised as an “example of distributed, shared and aligned leadership between population health and public health” which “works well since there is a high level of trust, and clarity over role and purpose”.
