The Mayor of London has a statutory duty under the Greater London Authority Act ( GLA) 2007 to prepare and publish a health inequalities strategy. This Act requires that the strategy identifies health inequalities, priorities for reducing them and the role to be played by key partners in its implementation.
The draft, 'London Health Inequalities Strategy was published for public consultation on 24 September 2009 by the Mayor, Boris Johnson. This public consultation builds on a draft strategy published by his predecessor previous Mayor ('Living Well in London'), which was issued to statutory consultees only. The consultation closes on 10 January 2010. The final strategy will be published in 2010.
London Health Inequalities Strategy - draft briefing (PDF, 119.36Kb)
http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/HealthAndAdultServices/briefings/health...
http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/publications/health/healt...
http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/HealthAndAdultServices/consultationsand...
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Summary:
London HIV treatment and care services meet the needs of c60% of all people with HIV in the country. This strategy outlines the public health success of HIV drug treatment and the financial pressures arising from this. It sets priorities for the next 3 years for the planning, delivery and development of HIV treatment and care services and Pan-London HIV prevention work. There are 9 strategic aims that are prioritised for work by the HIV consortium and sector networks.
The strategy will form part of the London Strategic Health Authorities’ Sexual Health Framework.
Following extensive consultation, the Mayor published his first ever Health Inequalities Strategy in April 2010. An accompanying 'action plan', First Steps to Delivery explains how the plan will be delivered.
London Health Inequalities Strategy
London Health Inequalities Strategy
First Steps to Delivery
http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/publications/health/healt...
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SKEIN Into The Bigger Picture
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SKEIN (Skills for Economic Inclusion Network) Pilot Research
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DRAFT Service Level / Partnership agreement This draft agreement can be used as a guide to compare with your own contracts and should inform you of the essential components of a partnership contract.
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How European Union Funds have assisted community projects in the area of skills development.
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The Department of Health has made a serious attempt to tackle health inequalities across England. But, having set a target in 2000 to reduce health inequalities, it was slow to take action and health inequalities were not a top priority for the NHS until 2006.
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"The Department of Health has made a concerted effort to tackle a very difficult and long-standing problem. However, it was slow to take action and health inequalities were not a top priority for the NHS until 2006. We recognize that this is a very complicated issue and that it took time to develop an evidence base. However, the best, cost-effective interventions have been identified and now must be employed on a larger scale in order to have a greater impact and improve value for money.
"The Department should target its efforts on the most deprived areas of the country and develop costed proposals to maintain or increase investment in preventative interventions to tackle the conditions which lead to health inequalities."
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, 2 July 2010
The Department of Health has made a serious attempt to tackle health inequalities across England. But, according to a National Audit Office report published today, having set a target in 2000 to reduce health inequalities, it took time to embed the issue in the policy and planning framework of the NHS and to develop an evidence base of the most cost-effective interventions.
Given the slowness in applying cost-effective interventions on the scale required in the early and mid-2000s, the NAO was unable to conclude that the Department’s approach provided value for money up to this time. More recently the improved take-up of these interventions is likely to have improved value for money.
The NAO report found that, although life expectancy overall has increased, the gap in life expectancy between the national average and the Government’s dedicated “spearhead” areas has continued to widen. The Department will not meet its target to reduce the health inequalities gap by 10 per cent by 2010, as measured by life expectancy at birth, if current trends continue.
The Department’s strategy, published in 2003, lacked effective mechanisms to achieve the target because the evidence base was still being developed. It was not until 2006-07 that the strategy was matched by focused action to tackle health inequalities, leaving little time for these actions to have an impact before the 2010 target date.
Three key, cost-effective interventions to reduce the gap in life expectancy were identified by the Department’s 2007 Health Inequalities Intervention Tool: increase the prescribing, first, of drugs to control blood pressure and, secondly, of drugs to reduce cholesterol, by 40 per cent; and double the capacity of smoking cessation services. But these interventions have not yet been used on the scale required to close the gap and progress in improving the take-up of these interventions is not monitored.
Primary care trusts are required to address health inequalities from within their general budgets and, therefore, it is not possible to identify how much money has been spent. PCTs in spearhead areas had £230 more per head to spend than the PCTs in non-spearheads, but there is evidence that some of the extra money is absorbed by higher hospital costs in deprived areas.
http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/1011/health_inequalities.aspx
Islington Health Inequlaties Strategy, I shall aim to incorporate all the London Borough's strategy under this section.