The Complete Care Community Programme delivered a successful health inequality symposium earlier this month, with almost 100 delegates attending the event at the De Vere Latimer Estate, Chesham.
Complete Care Community is a national programme, delivered by Healthworks and NHS Arden & GEM, which supports Primary Care Networks to identify and narrow health inequalities in their local area. The programme encourages local networks to adopt a systematic approach to addressing the wider determinants of health inequalities including using data to inform action.
The symposium was designed to bring together leaders from across the health and care sector and provided insight, expert views and opinions and emerging best practice in tackling local health inequality challenges. Expert speakers included Patricia Hewitt, Chair of NHS Norfolk and Waveney (and former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care); Dr Minal Bakha, GP and Director of Primary Care for NHS England and Sue Lacy Bryan, Chief Knowledge Officer for NHS England.
Feedback for the two day event was overwhelmingly positive, with a number of key themes emerging which are essential to the success of tackling health inequality:
- Engagement and identification
- Communication
- Location of services
- Support from other organisations
- Flexibility and open minds
The outputs have been summarised into a two page overview which can be accessed here.
You can find our more about the Complete Care Community Programme here.