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Devon County Council: a Website to Support Collaboration and Communication on Health and Wellbeing Case study Devon County Council: a website to support collaboration and communication on health and wellbeing “The website enables us to work alongside some of the key services that influence Key messages the health of our communities, such as • Development of a living and interactive environmental health, employment, housing, JSNA offers huge opportunities to provide and air quality. Since the transition of public information that can be used by many health to Devon County Council, the website different groups and communities of has evolved to become a valuable source of interest and to be more open to scrutiny information and communication tool.” and challenge Cllr Andrea Davis, Cabinet Member for • A website that fulfils this role needs to be Health and Wellbeing and Chair of the monitored and continually updated and Devon Health and Wellbeing Board promoted in the community. • Open access to information by the community and transparency about health “Through the JSNA, we can collaborate more and care planning should be at the core of effectively with our colleagues in the Clinical local health and wellbeing agendas. Commissioning Groups, district councils, providers and communities to ensure what we are doing secures the best health outcomes Context for those who most need it.” Devon is the third largest county in England, Dr Virginia Pearson, Director of Public with the twelfth highest county population – Health about 770,000 residents. It has a dispersed rural population mainly centred on the 28 market and coastal towns and the City “The county council’s role, as a champion of Exeter. However, nearly a quarter of and leader for its local communities puts us the population live away from the biggest in an ideal position to deliver the government’s settlements, presenting the challenge of vision for a fitter, healthier society that doesn’t providing services that are equally accessible rely on long-term health and social care to all. The population is older than the national services. Our Health and Wellbeing site average. This older group is expected to grow enables us to bring together a wealth of significantly, with people over 65 expected to information to help us to address some of make up over a quarter of the population by the health inequalities that exist across the 2031. The county has a very small minority county.” ethnic population well below the national average. This presents the challenge of Phil Norrey, Chief Executive ensure that the small minority ethnic groups are seen as integral to the county and are not many different constituencies. In the months disadvantaged or excluded in any way. leading up to the transfer, public health and local authority staff worked together to review The health of people in Devon is generally the existing JSNA, to consider and assess better than the England average. Deprivation examples of best practice across the country. is lower than average, however about 17,700 They aimed to draw on these examples to children live in poverty. create a multi-purpose website for the Health Life expectancy in Devon is higher than in and Wellbeing Board that would also be a comparison to England and Wales: 87.5 years community resource. in the ward with the longest life expectancy It was decided that, to reinforce its status as and 74.7 in the ward with the shortest. The an independent resource that resulted from commonest cause of premature death is partnership working, a separate website would coronary heart disease (which has been be created away from the county council’s reducing in line with national patterns), website and with its own identity and branding. followed by lung cancer. Over the last 10 The website now contains information on years, all cause mortality rates have fallen. Devon’s Health and Wellbeing Board, including Early death rates from cancer and from the usual minutes and agendas, but also heart disease and stroke have fallen and are briefing papers produced for the Board, the better than the England average. The level of Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS), alcohol-specific hospital stays among those Annual Public Health Reports, JSNAs and a under 18 is worse than the England average. library of strategies, plans, needs assessments Levels of teenage pregnancy, breast feeding and other reports and information relevant to and smoking in pregnancy are better than health and wellbeing in Devon. The website the England average. Estimated levels of also hosts the Devon Health and Wellbeing adult ‘healthy eating’ and physical activity are newsletter, produced regularly, which gives better than the England average. Rates of hip news about the Health and Wellbeing Board, fractures, road injuries and deaths, smoking the CCG and local Healthwatch; and is used related deaths and hospital stays for alcohol to promote consultations and relevant events related harm are better than the England such as Devon’s hosting of the Rural Health average. The rates of incidence of malignant conference. melanoma and hospital stays for self-harm are worse than average. The county council and partners already had strong place-based information and community health and wellbeing profiles which Maximising use of are posted on the website. They include: information and data • constituency profiles When the transfer of public health to local • town health profiles government was mooted, commentators • local authority profiles suggested that one advantage could be bringing together local authority population • NHS locality profiles data with public health data analysis and • GP practice profiles modelling skills. In Devon, leading up to the transfer of 30 public health staff, it was Posting profiles which cut across each other decided that this opportunity could be built means that they can be used for a variety of on, not only to create an up-to-date Joint purposes and by different geographically Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), but based groups. also to make the information that informs the JSNA both visible and suited to many uses by It was also decided to enhance this place- the public health team has taken groups based information with information on different of people through the website and drawn health topics or themes which, if placed on JSNA community health profiles as a in the public domain, would be of interest mechanism to discuss health and care issues and use to different communities of interest. with local communities. Health profiles and Each topic has a page on the website which related JSNA information have been used in outlines the issue, lists evidence of what the preparation of community funding bids, works to tackle it (including NICE guidance and public events and website feedback has where available) and relates it to the Devon been useful in developing the website. context and what is currently being done in the county. Together, the pages cover a wide As a result, the website has a, perhaps range of issues, including: surprisingly, large non-professional audience, with 16,300 separate visits during 2013. The • issues around the wider determinants of public health team is able to get a flavour of health such as poverty and housing the reasons for people’s visits and the range of visitors, through a feedback mechanism that • information on promoting healthy lifestyles, permits queries and responds to them. Queries such as preventing unintentional injuries have been received from community groups, in children and young people, teenage people in education, including university pregnancy, skin cancer prevention and students, schools and interested individuals. early diagnosis (a significant issue in Devon) and smoking • improving the health and wellbeing of Working with elected the population, including safeguarding adults and children, learning disabilities, members homelessness and domestic and sexual The website has been useful for introducing violence and abuse elected members to the new local authority The website will be updated later in 2014 health responsibilities and providing to include a new section on major diseases health and social care information for their and conditions based on health needs communities. A number of briefing and assessments which are currently under way. awareness sessions have been run to ensure that the website is an informative and There are also sections on ‘resources for useful source of information for councillors. professionals’ and ‘resources for schools’, Elected members appreciate that the website although care has been taken to ensure that all enables the Health and Wellbeing Board parts of the website are publicly ‘digestible’. and the health commissioning bodies to be The intention has been to give the ‘whole story’ open to scrutiny and challenge by providing of an issue as part of the county council’s and information that is easily accessible and its partners’ approach to open data both for easily understood. They can drill down to professionals and for the community. look at the health profile of residents that they themselves represent as individuals, but also find information to help them develop policy Information for the community (in the ‘what works’ sections) and monitor progress (in the ‘what is currently being done The Devon Health and Wellbeing website in Devon’ sections). has been extensively used by and developed with input by community and voluntary organisations. The website has been promoted at over 30 public events across the county. Working with local Healthwatch, Support to the Health and Future plans Wellbeing Board and CCGs Further briefings for the themes and topics section of the website are currently being Public health and other staff supporting the developed, including briefings relating to the Health and Wellbeing Board believe that characteristics protected by the equalities the website has really helped the Board to legislation and briefings on different long-term develop because it has been flexible enough conditions for a planned ‘major diseases and to provide information for the disparate conditions’ section.
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