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Whatever your background is, we’ve got resources tailormade to help maximise your impact – from raising awareness to changing outcomes.
Framework for Drivers of Health and Wellbeing among Children and Young People (2024)
The Framework for Drivers of Health and Wellbeing among Children and Young People has been created by the Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative with direct input from children and young people.
The framework’s main purpose is to underpin action for achieving greater equity in children and young people’s health and wellbeing and will be used to support the development of pilot interventions in the three partner ICS areas, of which Cheshire and Merseyside is one.
Left out in the cold: the hidden health costs of cold homes (2024)
This report highlights the impacts of cold homes on health and wellbeing, the inequalities associated with cold homes and the economics of action on cold homes. It lays out a set of recommendations that aim to address the main drivers of cold homes.
HealthKnowledge
A learning resource from the UK Facility of Public Health for anyone working in health, social care and well-being. The resource allows you to access a broad range of learning materials for personal use or for teaching purposes in order to help everyone expand their public health knowledge.
The Health Foundation’s local authority dashboard
The Health Foundation’s local authority dashboard brings together data and insights on the state of health and health inequalities across all local authorities in England. Explore how health is shaped by factors such as housing, employment and income, and explore differences between neighbourhoods in each local authority.
Reducing health inequalities: A guide for NHS trust board members (2024)
This is a practical guide to support NHS trust board members to address health inequalities as part of their core business. It outlines why trusts should act on health inequalities, includes a vision for what good looks like, includes a self-assessment tool for trusts to use to determine where they are in their journey, and has a list of suggested objectives for board members. It covers a wide range of trust work, from operational and clinical delivery of services to the trust’s role as an anchor institution and as an employer of NHS staff.
Local Inequalities Explorer Tool
This tool from the Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) provides a resource to support decision making by demonstrating some local, within area inequalities. The main expected uses of the tool are to consider local health inequalities, choose whatever priorities matter locally, measure local inequalities, enable local action to tackle inequalities and to use the visual in local documents.
Health Equity Network
This network provides an opportunity for organisations, both public and private sector, community and voluntary groups, and individuals to share their work on health equity and to engage across the country with others with the same interests. The intention is to build momentum for health equity UK wide.
Note: You will need set-up an account to access this resource.
NHS Prevention Pledge website
Find out more about the NHS Prevention Pledge in Cheshire and Merseyside, a prevention framework for NHS Provider Trusts to embed prevention of ill health within core service delivery.
Health Anchors Learning Network
The Health Anchors Learning Network (HALN) is a UK-wide network for people responsible for, or interested in, embedding anchor approaches in their roles. The network provides spaces and opportunities for shared learning about how anchor organisations can use their resources and influence to improve the social determinants of health and help reduce inequalities.
Anchor Institutions Website
Find out more about the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside sustainability work including the Green Plan, Social Value and the Anchor Institution Framework.
All Together Active Resource Hub
A hub of information, resources and signposting designed for anybody working in health and social care in Cheshire and Merseyside to find out more about physical activity, and how you can use it in your role to improve service user outcomes.
Health Inequalities, Lives Cut Short (2024)
This report from the Institute of Health Equity looks at role of inequalities in mortality as 1 million people in 90% of areas in England lived shorter lives than they should have between 2011 and the start of the pandemic.