Annex 2
SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE TO THE WORKING GROUP
Key Points on the Future of Public Health
| Witnesses |
Develop multi-disciplinary network of public health specialists and practitioners
| 1, 4, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 29, 30 |
Maintain central specialist public health resource
| 1, 4, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 21, 29, 30, 33 |
Specialists from the central resource to be more "out there" in the PCT/unitary authority area
| 1, 2, 4, 12, 13, 17, 21, 22, 29, 30, 32, 33
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Need to develop multi-disiplinary public health
| 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 18, 33 |
Develop public health expertise at PCT/unitary authority level
| 1, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 30, 31, 32
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Identify and develop PCT public health lead role
| 1, 4, 9, 12, 21, 27, 30, 32 |
Need for interim measures until public health capacity has expanded
| 1, 4, 32 |
Develop public health education and training strategy/continuing professional development for specialists and practitioners in Avon
| 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 20, 23, 24, 27 |
Develop close joint working with information management colleagues
| 1, 7, 9, 21, 30, 33 |
Maintain links with regional, national and academic public health
| 1, 9 |
Develop joint local forums with unitary authorities, academic public health and practitioners
| 1, 14, 30, 31 |
Maintain the central specialist training role
| 1, 9 |
Integrated delivery of public health at levels of community/practice, PCT/unitary authority/NHS Trust and Health Authority
| 1, 2, 4, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32
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Strong leadership from public health at PCT level
| 2, 17, 21, 24, 29, 30, 32 |
Recognise/develop the public health role of the health visitor
| 3, 6, 7, 8, 20, 22, 24, 29 |
Need to maintain/develop academic links |
1, 5, 9, 18 |
Greater focus on health inequalities/social exclusion
| 6, 7, 12, 19, 28, 29, 32 |
Closer working with local authority colleagues
| 9, 14, 19, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31 |
Maintain central dental public health resource
| 10 |
Closer links and improved public health information sharing between health and local authorities
| 1, 11, 12, 13, 21, 30 |
Acknowledge and develop health promotion as part of public health
| 12, 29, 31 |
Health promotion to be organisationally managed by one PCT on behalf of all the others
| 1, 12 |
PCT need to "own" their own public health function
| 12, 20, 32, 33 |
Develop joint health and local authority public health workforce
| 14 |
Need for "Bristol city" level of public health, including joint health report
| 14, 25 |
Develop public health partnership through Health and Social Care Partnership
| 14, 25, 31 |
Some services better provided by independent sector
| 19 |
More joint work between public health and general practice, including secondments
| 22 |
Make more use of morbidity data in primary care
| 22 |
Increase understanding in primary care of what public health specialists do
| 22 |
Develop partnership working with voluntary sector
| 23, 29 |
Plan community empowerment in the system from the beginning
| 23, 29 |
More opportunities for practitioners to influence public health systems, information gathering, etc
| 24, 29 |
Review management arrangements for HVs |
24 |
Develop GPs public health role | 22, 32
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Acknowledge and respond to NHS Trusts need for public health support
| 33 |
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SUBMISSIONS TO THE WORKING GROUP ON THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC
HEALTH MEDICINE IN THE AVON AREA
No Witness
1 Department of Public Health, Avon Health Authority
2 Will Warin, Chair, NW Bristol PCG
3 Julie Burgess, Director of Nursing, North Bristol Trust
4 Gabriel Scally, Regional Director of Public Health (oral)
5 Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of
England
6 Hilary Emery, Health Visitor, Woodspring PCG
7 Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association, North
Bristol
8 Anne Price/Juliet Norman, Health Visitors, North Bristol Trust
9 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
10 John Boyles, Consultant in Dental Public Health, Avon Health
Authority
11 Peter Rodwell, Consumer Protection Manager, North Somerset
Council
12 Health Promotion Service Avon
13 Elizabeth Williams, SE Bristol PCG
14 Yvonne Wilkin, Health Policy Officer, Bristol City Council
15 Philip Pughe-Morgan, Chief Executive, Bath & West Community
Trust
16 WD Randell & Partners, Hope House Surgery
17 Sunita Berry, Brian Conway, Bath PCG
18 Derek Pheby, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of the
West of England
19 Peter Mulvaney, Partnership Planning and Performance, B&NES
20 Ruth Marks, Professional Lead Nurse, Health Visiting, UBHT
21 Information Directorate, Avon Health Authority
22 Nina Moorman, Clinical Governance Lead and Vice-Chair, W Bristol
PCG
23 Ben Barker, Chair, Voluntary Organisations' Standing Conference
on Urban Regeneration
24 Sue Postlethwaite, CPHVA, Bath and Weston/Southmead Centre
South West Region
25 Bill McKitterick, Director of Social Services, Bristol City
Council
26 Roger Lloyd, Chief Superintendent, Avon and Somerset Constabulary
27 Claire Williamson, Head of Psychology, North Somerset, Avon
and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Trust
28 Stephen Young, Food and Trading Standards Manager, Bath and
North East Somerset Council
29 Wendy Harris/Heather van de Hoest, Health Visitors (oral)
30 Ian Makintosh, Director of IM&T, Avon Health Authority
(oral)
31 Graham Pearson, Assistant Director of Housing and Social Services,
North Somerset Council (oral)
32 Polly Davis, Chief Office, South Gloucestershire PCG (oral)
33 Ann Lloyd, Chief Executive, North Bristol Trust (oral)
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