1. Working with the NHS to improve health Dr Janet Atherton Director of Public Health Sefton Council and Primary Care Trust

2. Creating healthier organisations Staff Service users/patients Wider community

3. Sefton Primary Care Trust Improving health Reducing health inequalities Engaging local communities High quality services Value for money Population 280,000 Budget £450 million One of 5 PCTs in Merseyside Coterminous with Council

4. CHaMPs Cheshire and Merseyside Partnerships for Health Public Health Network Steering Group and Directors of Public Health Group Collaborative network of all PCTs, Councils and wider partners in Cheshire and Merseyside aiming to improve health

5. Partnership with Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service Recognising we have shared goals –Tackling health inequalities Identifying goals we can’t achieve on our own or are better delivered in partnership Resources each partner can bring to bear

6. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service Vision – making Merseyside a safer stronger and healthier community Mission – to work in partnership to provide and excellent affordable service to all the diverse communities on Merseyside that will: –Reduce risk –Respond –Restore

7. How we can work together? CHaMPs Top Tips for Healthier Workplaces Healthier children Healthier older people Reducing smoking Safer Communities – Advocates programme

9. Why Healthier Workplaces? Benefit employer and employee Reduce sickness absence Improve workplace relations Allow staff to be more productive Improve recruitment and retention

11. Top Tips Promoting equality in the workplace Tackling obesity Improve mental health and well-being Dealing with drug and alcohol use Smokefree workplaces

12. Liverpool Wide ranging partnership commended by Health Inequalities National Support Team –Fire Fit Kids –Links with Stop Smoking services –New Gym in fire station –Personal health trainers etc

13. Knowsley – IKAN project

14. Wirral Wirral – StartRight project

15. Sefton Action Plan Healthy children and young people –Fire Fit Kids – linked to MEND programme –Links with Healthy Schools Programme Reducing deaths from major killers –Cardiac rehabilitation services and community weight management –Home Safety Checks – training for brief interventions for smoking, drugs and alcohol, promotion of flu immunisation Improving quality of life for older people –Advocacy post – reducing falls –Affordable warmth –Links with migrant communities –Fire service volunteers trained to give health information

16. Thank you For further information: janet.atherton@seftonpct.nhs.uk www.champs-for-health.net