Actions in the 8 Action Plans where SCPCT are the lead agency, April 2006

SCPCT ACTIONS MATRIX, April 2006

ACTION MEASURE Progress West NP East NP North NP Central NP L’hill Shirl H’field Tow FR, Port B&B Free E Park HP, M St D Poly REDUCING HEALTH INEQUALITIES • Raise awareness to encourage Use of regular and ‘Your Guide to Local Health Services’ produced by PCT ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ innovative appropriate use of existing services and delivered to every house among residents and service providers by methods to raise in .

providing additional publicity for: awareness. Annual report in very ► out of hours service particularly readable format distributed Newsletter to be to all households in NHS direct. Southampton. ► the various health projects and distributed in Priority Newsletter still to be initiatives being delivered in the developed. Priority Neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods. (March 2006).

• Enable people to make healthy lifestyle Create 30 posts In prototype phase – on ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ choices by across the Priority track to deliver 11 paid and a number of unpaid ► Creating Health Trainer posts Neighbourhoods. positions. employing people drawn from the March 2007 Coordinator identified community to work within that onwards. and training pack community to promote healthy devised. Job lifestyles e.g. healthy eating, descriptions completed.

reduced smoking, drug and alcohol abuse; improved sexual health and increased exercise. In particular to advise, sign-post and support individuals within the

community Train 10 people G:\Democracy_2006-2007\Meetings\Scrutiny\Public Health Scrutiny\Reports\01.02.07\7. Tackling Health Inequalities - Appendix 1.doc Page 1 of 4 ACTION MEASURE Progress West NP East NP North NP Central NP L’hill Shirl H’field Tow FR, Port B&B Free E Park HP, M St D Poly ► Running the Foundation Certificate per year. (2007 First course delivered in onwards) September – 12 in Health Promotion to train participants. Next community practitioners such as course in March already community nurses, social workers, over subscribed – a community development workers, number of free places youth workers, mental health available to the workers and others. voluntary sector.

Enhanced and easily accessible health facilities • Work with communities to identify ways of Progress on the Proposed development ✔ improving access to GP and dental health project. in Telephone House to include surgeries. provision (possibly including walk- in Take up of clinical Ocean dental in capability) especially in Northam and the facilities on the Brunswick Place Old Town. Royal South Hants currently has an open hospital site. list and has taken on many Newtown/ and Northam residents. (The feed back from the last Central neighbourhoods partnership COG meeting was that the central population had seen a positive impact made by ocean dental).

• Development of a strategic Healthy Living Healthy living project led by Steve Smith. project to reduce inequalities in and • Investigate improvements in the Increase in use by Review underway – new ✔ interpretation service. GPs of support arrangements expected in next 6 Interpretation and months. Translation New Polish and

G:\Democracy_2006-2007\Meetings\Scrutiny\Public Health Scrutiny\Reports\01.02.07\7. Tackling Health Inequalities - Appendix 1.doc Page 2 of 4 ACTION MEASURE Progress West NP East NP North NP Central NP L’hill Shirl H’field Tow FR, Port B&B Free E Park HP, M St D Poly Service. Somalian interpreters in the team. • Improve provision of NHS dental care Improved access Currently Asgari & ✔ ✔ and ensure adequate provision to serve to health facilities. Najafi in Shirley have an open list. Shirley Estate, as part of the Ansari practice in PCT Plans to improve dental provision in Burgess Road with open the city. list. • Implement health projects and promote Details of new A number of projects ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ healthier lifestyles. projects. have been enabled through Neighbourhood Partnership funding and Healthy Communities Funding Improve sexual health • Improve sexual health by providing and Reduction in under All part of the ✔ 18 conception Teenage Pregnancy publicising local confidential advice and support services, and through targeted rates. action plan being prevention work with teenage boys and implemented across girls in schools and elsewhere to increase the city. awareness and build self esteem. This work will include providing information and advice on sex and relationships, links between unplanned pregnancy and alcohol and the realities of being a teenage parent. Lessen the concentration of vulnerable people Investigate the opportunities now and in the Decisions on the SCC to lead ✔ future for reducing the concentration of location of new clients will specialist health needs in certain housing / facilities parts of the central area, especially in the for vulnerable areas adjacent to the RSH hospital site. people to take into account the need to reduce G:\Democracy_2006-2007\Meetings\Scrutiny\Public Health Scrutiny\Reports\01.02.07\7. Tackling Health Inequalities - Appendix 1.doc Page 3 of 4 ACTION MEASURE Progress West NP East NP North NP Central NP L’hill Shirl H’field Tow FR, Port B&B Free E Park HP, M St D Poly concentration in Newtown.

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