Sent on behalf of North East Lincolnshire Health and Care Partnership:
Dear Colleague,
We have established a Population Health Community of Practice with the aim to make Improving Population Health and Wellbeing as everyone’s business. It’s an informal forum, meeting every 6 weeks, where people can share knowledge and learn about all things population health, we will focus on a different topic at each session. Our next meeting is Tuesday 23rd April 1-230pm on Teams and the topic is Poverty. We are looking for people to share knowledge and learning on all things to do with poverty, if you would be happy to contribute to the meeting or attend please get in touch with Sarah Everest-Ford, s.everest@nhs.net.
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What is population health?
Population health is an approach aimed at improving the health of an entire population. It is about improving the physical and mental health outcomes and wellbeing of people, whilst reducing health inequalities within and across a defined population. It includes action to reduce the occurrence of ill-health, including addressing wider determinants of health, and requires working with communities and partner agencies.
Why should we learn about population health?
It is everybody’s business! This is because population health principles have the potential to contribute significantly to improved health outcomes across the health and care system.
COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on those already experiencing disadvantage, discrimination and health inequalities. The pandemic has highlighted the need for the health and care system to increase the scale and pace of action to tackle health inequalities and protect those at greatest risk.
Taking a population health approach can help in the recovery from the pandemic and to improve access, experiences and the outcomes of those populations in most need.
Who needs to learn about population health?
All partners in the health and care system. We need to embed population health approaches into communities by improving the knowledge of their workforces in this area.
What is the NEL Population Health Community of Practice?
Only 20% of a person’s health outcomes are directly related to their ability to access good quality health! Taking a population health approach enables you and your colleagues to focus on the wider determinants of health so you can better adapt care and support to the needs of individuals, so you can design more joined up and sustainable health and care services, so you can enable better use of public resources, and so you can help prevent people from becoming unwell in the first place.
Come and join in the growing conversation by attending the Population Health Community of Practice forum. Gain insight into what Population Health means to you and your partners, and share your voice in the discussions held by the diverse range of attendees. The forum typically has a cross section of people from health and care provision, the voluntary sector and the wider community.
For more information on the NEL CoP please contact Sarah Everest-Ford at s.everest@nhs.net
