Clackmannanshire Integrated Health Improvement Team
The Clackmannanshire Integrated Health Improvement Team (CIHIT) is a small team that includes practitioners with a Clackmannanshire focus who already have a key role and remit for health improvement within the NHS Board, Local Authority or Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership (CHP).
Team Members
- Health Policy and Planning Officer
- A Buchanan, Clackmannanshire Council
- Public Health Practitioner
- G Christie, Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership
- Consultant in Public Health Medicine
- Dr O Harding, Forth Valley NHS Board
- General Manager
- K O'Neill, Clackmannanshire Community Health partnership
- Policy and Planning Officer (Children's Services)
- C Johnson, Clackmannanshire Council
- Lead Officer for Health Promotion
- B Twelves-Dickson, Forth Valley Health Promotion
Team Functions
The team has responsibility to:
- Plan and review the overall health improvement agenda and ensure CHP/community planning health improvement priorities are integrated into the Joint Health Improvement Plan (JHIP);
- Co-ordinate the implementation of the health improvement component of the CHP high level objectives based on local evidence of need and using appropriate evidence to inform delivery processes;
- Support the development of strategic priorities in plans and strategies such as Single Outcome Agreement across partner agencies;
- Communicate progress and provide regular performance management reports to the CHP and Community Planning Partnership (CPP);
- Build capacity of staff/service areas to deliver health improvement and tackle inequalities.
- Identify areas where partnership working can improve services and bring together a wider range of partners including the voluntary sector to make best use of available resources;
- Apply the core principles of community involvement in line with National Standards of Public Engagement.
The CIHIT support the development and delivery of the Clackmannanshire Healthier Lives Programme (CHL). The programme is funded by Fairer Scotland through the Clackmannanshire Alliance and aims to help people improve their health and employability through assessments and tailored packages of support designed to meet clients' specific needs.
A full range of support services is on offer:
- holistic health assessments
- stress and anxiety management
- confidence building
- increasing physical activity
- stopping smoking
- healthier food shopping
- cooking and dietary skills
Key workers from the programme can also help clients to access a wide range of partners services quickly and easily.
Health Inequalities
Delivering health improvement is a key responsibility for both the CHP and the local authority. Partnership working is essential to achieve an improvement in health and an increased reduction in health inequalities in Clackmannanshire.
The levels of health inequalities between the most affluent and the most deprived of our communities continues to increase and the reduction of health inequalities is a Scottish Government target.
The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) is the Scottish Government's official tool for identifying areas of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland and is relevant to policies aimed at tackling the causes and effects of area based multiple deprivation.
Further information
- Scottish Government links:
Publications & Documents
External Links
Page & Site Tools
Contact information
For further information about this page please contact:
Health Policy & Planning Officer, Strategy & Customer Services
Greenfield House, Tullibody Road, Alloa, FK10 2AD
Tel: 01259 452294 / 450000
Email: customerservice@clacks.gov.uk
Or use the on-line contact form
