PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHANGE

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PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHANGE

• Toby Harris
• Chair, Metropolitan Police Authority

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Health Inequalities AreAlways With Us

• The 19th century legacy and the pioneers of the
  public health movement
• Health for All not achieved by 2000
• Health inequalities still inadequately recognised
  as an issue
• Last twenty years improving public health by
  exhortation

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Tackling Inequalities In Health Means Tackling
Inequalities In Wealth

• Poverty kills
• Access to employment
• Housing conditions
• Environmental factors
• Education

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Social Conditions Need To Change

• Strategic approach needed like the GLA
• No single agency can do it all
• Different agencies must all play their part
• Sustainability requires locally-focussed action
  as well as macro approach

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Parallels With Crime AndCommunity Safety

• Root causes of crime and health are similar
• Poverty
• poor social conditions
• lack of hope
• Promoting good health and community safety
  require similar solutions

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Partnerships Are Crucial

• Need agencies at national, regional and local
  level to work together
• Establish shared agenda and mutual understanding
  and trust
• Need to involve communities

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Effective Partnerships In London Some Examples

• Benefits advice in primary care (Camden and
  Islington)
• Providing food access in East London
• SureStart and improving health access (Southwark)
• The Access to Medicine Programme at Guys, Kings
  and St Thomas
• Promoting local employment in healthcare (North
  Middlesex)

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Making It Happen

• Lessons
• Local partnerships
• Promoting good practice and exchanging ideas
• Tackling issues strategically (London-wide) as
  well as locally
• Participation
• Commitment to social justice