From Healthcheck to Healthscan

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From Healthcheck to Healthscan?

• Draft proposal
• by Chris Windridge May 2008 Vers1.1

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Current Situation Threats and Opportunities

• Countryside Agency gone - the original driving
  force
• Weakened funding and enthusiasm for Healthchecks
• Benefits achieved by two thirds of eligible towns
  but one third not reached
• 172 towns eligible in South East
• 63 Completed
• 37 in progress
• 10 planned
• Leaves over 1/3rd or 62 towns not covered

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Obstacles to reaching all eligible towns

• Complexity Cost
• Perceived complexity of the process
• The amount or work for a town partnership group
• Difficulty in attracting volunteers
• The potential length of time
• Other calls for community/officer input
• Perhaps no perceived issues
• Funding the necessary costs
• A simplified process designed to address these
  issues is required to address these points. This
  is also an opportunity for new endorsement from
  current bodies.
• A Healthscan or Healthcheck Lite

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Obstacles to reaching all eligible towns

• Bridging
• Community frustration if volunteer effort to
  create evidence base and action plans is not
  accepted or taken into account in other formal
  planning resource allocation, or community
  involvement processes eg LAA/LSP and LDF.
• Wide perception that community based efforts will
  be regarded with less weighting than from other
  traditional and professional sources.
• Examples of good practice within South East where
  town partnerships and Healthchecks have made
  encouraging contributions.
• Getting from Healthcheck to action, commitment
  and acceptance by others

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Next Steps

• 1. Faster, Smarter, Slimline Healthcheck ...the
  Healthscan. Goal completion in 9months.
• Building on the experience
• Provision of starter packs, to help groups hit
  the ground running.
• Update all data source pointers, incl
  observatories and work sheets.
• Ensure the data and evidence base is able to be
  multipurpose, clear, current and align with other
  CLG programmes, eg LSP LAA, LDF.
• Align with Parish Plan process wherever feasible.
• Identify Starter, Core and Optional factual and
  issue based areas for study and a simple guide to
  process.
• Provide example questionnaires, incl an AMT
  endorsed survey provider training
• An 8020 goal but be satisfied with lt50
• 2. Sharing the experience, especially good
  practice guide on Bridging and on promoting an
  inclusive exercise.
• Identify overlap, alignment and mutual support
  threads between Healthcheck/Heathscan and other
  CLG community involvement programmes
• Identify the core SEEDA requirements with others
  for evidence to support funding
• Promote good practice on Town Partnership
  development

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Healthcheck LITE Discussion - Les Ampstead/Sue
Beer

• Objective an exercise which is Simpler
  Shorter BUT which produces a document still fit
  for purpose
• Explore how to provide a set of data up-front for
  early discussion e.g. get the Snapshot done by a
  researcher
• ready for a first open meeting.
• Questions Who will do this? How much would it
  cost? Who would pay for it?
• Worksheets.
• Questions What is the maximum reduction
  feasible while retaining the integrity of the
  research?
• 50 complete sufficient? Is 70 better? Does the
  quantity matter?
• Options
• 1 Do only some of the worksheet sections ( Drop
  whole sections)
• Carry out a general Likes/Dislikes exercise at
  the first public meeting (praise and grumbles as
  in Marden?)
• Eliminate worksheet sections where no issues have
  been mentioned in this first trawl but do
  remainder.
• 2 Reduce some sections, full versions of others.
  (Light/Heavy)
• Carry out a general Likes/Dislikes exercise.
  Where no issues have arisen, reduce worksheets to
  a minimum
• level e.g. do headline questions but do not
  follow up detail. Cover other worksheet sections
  in full
• 3 Drop some sections, reduced versions of some
  more and full versions of others ( Drop/ Light/
  Heavy)
• Is a Pick and Mix version going to be valid?

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Healthscan
Snapshot/Data Pack
Fast Start
Survey templates, library, platform, training
Core Facts (Observatories Links
Less is more
Fuzzy Boundaries Optional Data
Drill down. Help Links
Environment
Business Economy
Social Community
Transport Access
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Healthcheck vs Healthscan Steps

• Healthcheck Steps
• Set up partnership made up of volunteers,
     community council representatives,
• Take on the services of a coordinator
• Identify the catchment of the town and
      surrounding countryside
• Widen the partnership
• Hold the community event to establish the
     main issues
• Report back to the community
• Review the membership of the partnership
• Prepare a 'snapshot' of the town and
     surrounding countryside
• Answer the worksheets (Economy and    Town
  Centre, Social and Community,    Transport and
  Accessibility, and    Environment)
• Report back to the community
• Hold a community event to create a vision    for
  the town surrounding countryside
• Report back to the community
• Prepare an action plan
• Sign up partner organisations to the plan
• Into Action. Bridging Partnership models
• Review the structure of the partnership
• Take on the services of a project manager

• HealthScan Steps
• Set up partnership
• Provide starterpack.
• A Kickoff event on method, help, goals
• Town/Hinterland basic data pack/links/help
• Survey capability outline as default
• Fit data headline issues to best
     practice/partner needs/benchmarking etc..
• Revised Worksheets starter,core optional
• Revised Healthcheck guide
• Follow Healthcheck track, except snapshot should
  be    part complete. Worksheet phase only to
  complete starter     core segments, rest
  optional and Town dependent.
• Offer help via County Coordinators/AMT -
  Healthscan    process, understanding survey
  results, extracting issues,    prioritising
  needs, developing action plans.
• Provide guidance on the Evidence Base needs
  incl    best practice reports, action plans
  bids for funding.
• Ensure Bridging relationships are established and
  in   place whenever possible prior to initial
  phase completion.
• Into Action. Bridging Partnership models
• Review the structure of the partnership
• Take on the services of a project manager
• Put the plan into action
• Monitor and evaluate results

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AMT/SERTP Healthscan - a lighter weight and
quicker Healthcheck

• Executive Summary
• Retain overall concept, with community - led
  process and engagement with LA, councillors and
  advisers.
• Provide elements of the SNAPSHOT that can be made
  available quickly, cheaply and that provide a
  fast start for the Healthscan at kickoff. The
  Healthscan Data/Starter Pack?
• Provide survey templates and a delivery vehicle
  to allow rapid and flexible deployment, a library
  of questions, an archive of responses and to
  assist sharing, analysis and benchmarking
• Remove any clutter and duplication from
  worksheets and update
• Provide at least one model web hosting site
  link from AMT.
• Clarify the Evidence base needs with SEEDA, CLG
  and others
• Continue with Participation style community
  involvement
• Develop a Town Partnership best practice guide to
  assist with bridging and benchmarking
• Align with best practice examples such as Welland
  Economic performance Benchmarking and cross link.
• Provide a smaller scale refresh/review exercise
  for the early adopters.

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AMT/SERTP Healthscan - a lighter weight and
quicker Healthcheck

• Objective Have an agreed proposal to take to AMT
  conference for a Healthcheck follow on
• Next steps Create an outline proposal and test
  within SERTP.
• Suggested participation Chris Windridge, Julian
  Owen, Sue Beer, Les Ampstead others tbd?