1. How Health Impact Assessment (HIA) equips the public health workforce to collaborate in addressing health inequalities.
Presenter–
Lee Parry-Williams – Senior Public Health Practitioner (Policy & HIA), WHIASU, PHW
Insert name of presentation on Master Slide

2. Presenting - Context for Health Impact Assessment in Wales
How HIA practice is developed and applied in Wales
Translating learning into practice

3. HIA & WHIASU
Welsh Government strongly advocates for the use of HIA and established WHIASU in 2004
HIA is recognised as a tool to raise awareness and understanding of HiAP
Because HIA:
Promotes an integrated approach to policy making and supports collaboration
Requires active participation of all stakeholders
Enables all sectors to identify and demonstrate their contribution to:
reducing health inequalities
preventing/mitigating unintended negative impacts on H&WB through their plans/policies.

4. The devolved Welsh Government has placed an emphasis on:
Health & Wellbeing
Addressing inequalities within the population
Sustainable Development
Citizen centered public services
Partnership working
Integrated agenda
Addressed through the adoption of a Health in All Policies approach to policy making

5. Growing Welsh Legislation demonstrates that ongoing commitment –
Social Services & Wellbeing (Wales) Act (2014)
Environment (Wales) Act 2016
Planning (Wales) Act 2015
The Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013
Wellbeing of the Future Generations (Wales) Act (2015) (WbFG)
Public Health Act 2017-includes measure to make HIA statutory

6. WbFG “It speaks our language..”
Acknowledgement for slide Jo Charles, North Wales LPHT (2016)

7. Shared principles Long term Prevention Integration Collaboration
Involvement
Open
Transparent
Ethical
Democratic
Values and
principles of
HIA
Equitable
Sustainable
Participatory
Robust

8. Equipping the public health workforce -

9. Formal training sessions/packages:
E-learning introductory HIA Course
Introduction to HIA (half day)
Rapid HIA Competency (2 day) in partnership with CIEH– first UK accredited competency course
Comprehensive HIA (3 Day)
Quality Assuring HIA (1 day)
Tailored half day/full day for specific organisations
Mentoring ‘learning by doing’ support and facilitation
Advice and advocacy to Welsh government
Guidance, resources and evidence briefings, incl.new:
Quality Assessment Framework Tool
Planning for better health and wellbeing in Wales -

10. Public health workforce reports:
Stronger collaboration between sectors
Stronger united partnerships contributing to maximising positive health and wellbeing outcomes and reduction in health inequalities
A consistent approach to addressing, and evidencing, a consideration of potential impacts on health and wellbeing from policies and projects across the sectors.

11. ‘Carrying out a HIA helped break down barriers between communities and statutory services’ (N. MC. 2017)
Sectors
Planners
Environmental Health/CIEH
Voluntary
Housing
NHS
Public Health
Public Bodies (WbFG)
“Once I realised the versatility of HIA and that it’s not complicated,  it became an additional tool which I could use in my day-to-day work. I’ve assessed the merits of various planning applications as well as the effects of the authority’s public toilet closures. I find it highlights issues which you may otherwise have overlooked”.  An EHO 2017
Conclusion from undertaking the HIA:
Helped inform the design of the scheme
Supported the ambitions of the Wellbeing of Future Generations 9Wales) Act 2015
Made connections between policy, scheme delivery and affected population’ (N, Mc. 2017)