Guys and St Thomas Charity Future Thinking: Obesity

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Guys and St Thomas Charity Future Thinking
Obesity

• July 8th 2008

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Liam Hughes, National Adviser for Healthy
Communities, IDeA
National perspectives
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Obesity our next great challenge

• The scale of the problem and the challenge for
  society
• Policy and action national and local
• Beacons for health inequalities
• Unintended consequences

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Doing nothing?

• Burden of disease and premature illness!
• Will our children die earlier than us?
• Costs and resources!

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Taking the national policies

• Healthy weight, healthy lives a cross
  government strategy for England
• Health Inequalities progress and next steps
• World class commissioning
• High quality care for all

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and making them local

• PCTs, Local Authorities and their Local
  Strategic Partners
• - Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
• - Local Area Agreements
• - Health and Well-being partnerships
• - Childrens trusts
• - Commissioning plans

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Providing support

• National Obesity Team
• National Support Team
• UKPHA and Faculty for Public Health
• Healthy Communities Programme
• Sport England, Natural England and national
  alliances/voluntary organisations

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Example (1) Action on Merseyside

• The Fire and Rescue Service
• - keeping fit in schools
• - secondary prevention on station
• (A Beacon story)

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Example (2) Sunderlands wellness centres

• The Bunnyhill school meals staff
• Exercise on prescription a public/private
  partnership
• (A Beacon story)

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Example (3) Workplace health

• Coventry City- staying healthy in the Peugeot
  factory
• Caradon District Council helps Ginsters
  pasty-makers keep fit and healthy
• ( Beacon stories)

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Signs of success

• - leadership and partnership for outcomes
• - community engagement and social marketing
• - creativity and innovation
• - systematic scaling-up
• - passion for information (Sheffield a Beacon
  story)
• - health improvement is embedded

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Example (4) Greenwich

• - training for senior and middle managers
• - health is the best investment
• - excess weight is one of the biggest
  obstacles to regeneration!
• (A Beacon story)

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Room for improvement

• Pregnancy and early years
• Schools
• Building physical activity into our lives
• - healthy towns
• - walking our way to health
• Diet and the food we eat

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Example (4) Walking and activity

• Sheffield and Natural England
• (A Beacon story)
• Blackpool and the Stanley Park revival
• Bradford people are the most active
• (and some of the most inactive!)

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However, some unintended consequences

• Young children need a healthy and nutritious
  diet
• (2) Healthy schools can make you feel bad
• (Penny Curtis,Univ.of
  Sheffield)
• (3) Slightly overweight elders do better in
  hospital

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Local leadership

• PCT Board and local council
• Overview and Scrutiny
• Other local partners
• -Community and Voluntary sector
• - Commercial sector
• -Hospitals

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Next steps!

• So what are we going to do?