Pillar 3 - partnership working on wider determinants of health

Embedding a System-Wide Approach to Prevention and Healthy Living: We collaborate with partners to maximise opportunities for promoting healthy behaviours in our communities and to establish a preventative approach. This includes enhancing targeting and signposting, addressing service provision gaps, and improving staff skills in making every contact count (MECC).

This workstream defines roles and responsibilities, integrates metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and governance within Integrated Care Board (ICB) programmes, while also enhancing capabilities for promoting prevention through MECC. The objectives include:

• Supporting healthy behaviours and implementing Long Term Plan prevention initiatives, such as tobacco dependency and control, as well as a coordinated response to obesity.
• Addressing inequalities in cross-system prevention initiatives, including immunisation and vaccination, oral health, and cancer screening. This involves aligning public health and NHS services and rethinking delivery methods to encourage uptake and make optimal use of resources.

Leading a Whole-System Response to Address the Wider Determinants of Health: This initiative focuses on several key areas, including:

• Creating employment opportunities for deprived communities and assisting individuals with health needs in finding work through initiatives such as SEND internships, interview schemes, apprenticeships, and job fairs.
• Implementing volunteering programmes that empower our communities to develop skills, secure employment, combat social isolation, and foster connected and supportive environments.
• Addressing the rising cost of living by co-locating social welfare advice within NHS services.
• Prioritising healthier homes by reducing issues such as damp and mould, thereby preventing hospital admissions linked to unsuitable housing.
• Integrating social value into NHS procurement and utilising NHS assets for community benefit, including meeting spaces and warm hubs.

The Impact of volunteering in NW London ICS - a year in review can be found here.

• The West London Employment Expo was held in February. A news story about the event can be found here.

•       Click here to access the cost of living campaign.

Building the Underpinning Infrastructure to Support the First Two Pillar 3 Workstreams:

This workstream aims to:

• Empower the third sector to be effective partners within the Integrated Care System (ICS) by collaborating with grassroots organisations. It focuses on creating infrastructure that ensures voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations contribute to and support health and care delivery across North West London, including the development of contracting and impact frameworks for smaller organisations.
• Build effective partnerships among our Anchor institutions through an Anchor Charter, facilitating the sharing of best practices, building healthy and inclusive workplaces, and addressing the wider determinants of health for both residents and employees.