Health and Care Partnership

The Health and Care partnership was set up in 2002 to work with officers and communities across South Lanarkshire to improve health and reduce health inequalities. While a great deal of progress has been made across a number of areas, health in South Lanarkshire still needs to improve both compared with Scotland and with countries in other parts of Europe.

Membership

• South Lanarkshire Council
• Lanarkshire NHS Board
• Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board
• South Community Health Partnership
• Representatives of Users and carers

Main priorities

The partnership oversees and co-ordinates work to improve health through:

• Promoting healthy lifestyles and
• Improving life circumstances and reducing inequalities

The partnership is pursuing a number of key priorities under the lifestyle heading in line with local and national priorities. They are:

• Smoking
• Diet
• Physical activity
• Alcohol
• Mental health

These sit within the overarching theme of reducing inequalities.

The partnership strategic document is the Joint Health Improvement Plan. Since the development of the current plan (2003/04 – 2006/07 and now extended to 2007/08) health improvement has become a truly cross cutting theme and is a priority for several partnerships across community planning. During 2007 a new plan will be drafted which brings together the health improvement aims and objectives of all the community planning themes into a single strategic framework.

Associated partnerships

There are a number of partnerships which have direct and indirect reporting arrangements with the Health and Care Partnership. Informal links also exist with groups which operate within each of the partner organisations.

• Joint working group for Physical activity and Sports 21
• Joint Services Management Group (formerly the Joint Future Management Group)
• Lanarkshire Alcohol and Drugs Action team (ADAT)
• Joint Health Improvement Steering Group
• Choose Life Steering Group
• Cambuslang and Rutherglen Health Improvement Group

Publications

• Draft Stonger together for Health 3 - the draft Joint Health Improvement Plan 2008-2011
• Stronger together for Health – the Joint Health Improvement Plan 2003/04 – 2006/07
• First, Second and Third Annual Reviews of the Joint Health Improvement Plan
• Physical Activity Action Plan, 2004-2007
• Conference Report - May 2007

Contacts

For more information about the Health and Care Partnership in South Lanarkshire contact:

Michele Dowling, Planning Manager - Health, Social Work Resources
Tel: 01698 455960 email: Michele.dowling@southlanarkshire.gov.uk

Roy Watts, Head of Planning and Performance, South CHP
Tel: 01698 245005 email Roy.Watts@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Lena Collins, General Manager, Cambuslang/Rutherglen (Camglen) Locality
Tel: 0141 584 2509 email lena.collins@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Joyce MacDonald, Administration Advisor, Corporate Resources, SLC
Tel:01698 454521 email joyce.macdonald@southlanarkshire.gov.uk