Select Committee on Health Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence


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
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
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
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 role22, 32
Acknowledge and respond to NHS Trusts need for public health support
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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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