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Health, housing and regeneration - Monday 12 May 2008 |
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Health, housing and regeneration: partnerships and policies for healthier communities
A one day conference, Monday 12 May
The Macdonald Roxburghe Hotel,Edinburgh
Chair:
Pennie Taylor, journalist and broadcaster
Keynote Speakers:
Stewart Maxwell MSP, Minister for Communities and Health, The Scottish Government
Dr Richard Mitchell, Reader in Health Inequalities, University of Glasgow
Dr Kimmo Leppo, retired Director General, Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Fiona Crawford, Public Health Programme Manager, Glasgow Centre for Population Health
Cllr Stephen Curran, convener, South West Glasgow CHCP
Brian Gegan, chair, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
Why this conference? Why now?
One of the first acts of the SNP government on taking office was to streamline and rearrange civil service departments to match its strategic objectives. From this process emerged a new cross-cutting Department of Health and Wellbeing with an expanded remit encompassing not only health and social care, but also major policy areas such as housing, community regeneration, anti-poverty strategies, equality and sport. The plan was to ensure that all of them worked in concert to help achieve the Scottish Government’s stated objective to ‘help people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster access to health care.’
Agenda
09:00 Registration and refreshments
09:50 Welcome and introduction by the Conference Chair:
Pennie Taylor, Journalist and Broadcaster
Session One: Health and Wellbeing – The Challenge
10:00 Keynote speech: Social Justice and Health
Dr Richard Mitchell, Reader in Health Inequalities,
University of Glasgow
10:30 Housing, Regeneration and Health – Applying Lessons from the Past Today
Fiona Crawford, Public Health Programme Manager, Glasgow Centre for Population Health
10:50 Questions and discussion
11.10 Refreshments
Session Two: Partnerships in Action
11:30 Punching its Weight: The Benefits that Housing Brings to Health Partnerships
Brian Gegan, Chair, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and Chief Executive, Cairn Housing Association
11:50 Regeneration for Wellbeing
Andy Milne, Chief Executive, Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum
12:10 Making the Most of Third Sector Expertise
Peter Kelly, Director, The Poverty Alliance
12:30 Community Health and Wellbeing Partnerships: The Next Generation of CHPs?
Cllr Stephen Curran, Convener, Glasgow South West CHCP, Glasgow City Council
12:50 Questions and discussion
13.15 Lunch
Session Three: Putting It Together
14:15 Keynote speech: Stewart Maxwell MSP, Minister for Communities and Sport, The Scottish Government
14:45 Using Health Impact Assessments
Martin Higgins, Public Health Researcher, NHS Lothian
15:05 The Wellbeing Project
Andrew Harris, Director, The Scottish Council Foundation
15:25 Questions and discussion
15:45 Refreshments
Session Four: Health in All Policies
16:05 Closing Keynote Speech: Health in All Policies:
Dr Kimmo Leppo, Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of Helsinki
16:35 Questions and discussion
16:40 Summary and conclusions by the Conference Chair
16:45 Close of conference
One year on, how is the new portfolio working out in practice? What does each of these major policy areas bring to the joint task of improving health and wellbeing, particularly in Scotland’s worst-off communities? This conference lo  oks at how national and local government, the NHS, housing organisations, the voluntary sector and other key stakeholders can work in partnership to make the Government’s Health and Wellbeing ambitions a reality. It brings together leading figures in the organisations and sectors which have a key role to play in addressing the complex interactions between housing conditions, social and economic circumstances and health, and explores possible future scenarios for the creation and implementation of a health-creating public policy for Scotland.
Your contribution to this agenda, as delivery-agent, decision-maker or opinion-former, is a vital step on the road to securing Health and Wellbeing for all of Scotland’s communities.
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- How do social and economic factors interact to affect the health of individuals and communities?
- What was the rationale behind the creation of the Health and Wellbeing portfolio and what is the scale of the challenge ahead?
- What can the different aspects of the new portfolio each contribute to improving health and reducing health inequalities?
- What might new, expanded working partnerships for Health and Wellbeing look like and how would they work?
- Can a wide-ranging, cross-cutting health improvement strategy for Scotland now be developed?
- Hear from the Communities Minister about how the Scottish Government plans to co-ordinate activity across the Health and Wellbeing portfolio
- Understand the relationship between housing, economic and social circumstances and health
- Learn about the particulars of how that relationship functions in Scotland and how it affects individuals and communities
- Identify the experience and expertise that sectors not traditionally regarded as being part of ‘health’ can bring to the health improvement agenda, and discuss how new partnerships could be developed
- Find out how the Health and Wellbeing principles can be translated into policy development and service planning and delivery
- Hear about how the cross-cutting approach is already working in Finland, a comparable health economy
How attending will benefit you in your job
IF YOU WORK . . .
IN THE NHS
The Scottish Government’s Health and Wellbeing agenda envisages health partnerships expanding to bring together a much wider range of public services, working together to tackle the root causes of ill health in Scotland’s poorest communities. This conference will help you to understand what ‘public health’ really means in the new policy landscape and how the lessons learned from building existing partnerships can be applied to help you work effectively with colleagues from across the public and voluntary sectors to achieve health improvement in your local communities.
IN A LOCAL AUTHORITY
Local authority community care is already working in partnership with health services across Scotland, but a much wider range of local authority services is now coming in to make a direct contribution to improving health in local communities. If you work in housing, community regeneration, environmental health, community engagement or in partnerships with the voluntary sector, you will hear about your role in promoting Health and Wellbeing at this event.
IN A HOUSING ORGANISATION
Housing is pivotal in the Scottish Government’s plans to improve the health of Scotland’s poorest communities, but is there a danger that housing could become the poor cousin within the huge remit of the Scottish Government Health Directorates? This event will not only help you to understand how housing fits into the Health and Wellbeing jigsaw, but also to learn how the sector can punch its weight and make both the maximum contribution to and gain the greatest benefit from new partnerships.
IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR
You will hear about the new service landscape that you and your client groups will be engaging with, understand your organisation’s potential position within it, and throughout the day’s discussions, have the opportunity to assert the third sector’s central role in advancing the aims of the Health and Wellbeing agenda.
IN HEALTHCARE INDUSTRIES, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LOBBYING OR COMMUNICATIONS
This event will help you to understand the changing nature of Scotland’s public sector and the characteristics of the new generation of partnerships that will determine the future planning and delivery of a wide range of public services.
- NHS executive and non-executive board members
- Public health and health improvement
- CHP/CHCP committees, managers and staff
- Strategic healthcare planners
- Housing associations and tenants’ co-operatives
- Local authority community planning leads
- Local authority housing and community regeneration departments
- Local authority elected members, health & care, housing and regeneration spokespeople and committee members
- Voluntary organisations working in the health, housing, poverty and community engagement fields
- Public health and health policy university departments
- Pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
- Patient and service-user representative organisations
- Public sector and public affairs consultants
- Think tanks and policy organisations
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