Exercises and workshops
Table top exercise
Plenary session, 11.30am
This table top map exercise will challenge participants to create a vision for a healthy cohesive community. Designed as an interactive workshop to give participants the opportunity to think creatively and collaboratively about the challenges faced by an area experiencing different problems associated with:
- Older people feeling isolated - urban and rural areas
- Public buildings not fit for purpose - difficulty in accessing services
- Lack of employment opportunity
- Diverse community groups
- Social determinants that impact on health
Workshops
The following workshops will run in parallel at 2.15pm and 3.15pm. Please choose two of the three workshops and mark your selections on the booking form:
Workshop A - Reducing health inequalities
Coventry City Council and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
Workshop B - Why NHS Trusts need to 'do' community cohesion
NHS Blackburn with Darwen
Workshop C - Better together - a guide to good practice
Institute of Community Cohesion
Workshop A - Reducing health inequalities
Jean Arrowsmith, Health Development Services Manager, Coventry City Council
Rob Taylor, Station Manager, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
One fit does not fit all
Health inequalities – a new approach
It is widely acknowledged that the age at death of people living in the most deprived communities in the UK is far lower than it should be. People living in affluent areas enjoy better health and live longer than their more deprived counterparts who may only live one or two miles down the road. Some of the best brains in the world are working to provide us with a solution and a clear evidence base on what works.
Coventry City Council and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service were awarded the Beacon Award for Health Inequalities in 2008/09 and have been nationally recognised as two of the leading organisations in terms of reducing health inequalities. Yet the innovative approaches used are very different supporting the belief that “one fit does not fit all”.
They will be delivering a joint session at the Institute of Community Cohesion workshop on Wednesday 19th May. If you would like the opportunity to share in this debate and see how their approaches can help you in your work please sign up to the Reducing Health Inequalities workshop.
Workshop B - Why NHS Trusts need to 'do' community cohesion
Julie Hall, Diversity and Equality Manager, NHS Blackburn with Darwen
This session will look at:
- The benefits for:
- Patients
- The Trust
- Partners
- The challenges and solutions to embedding Community Cohesion
- Selling points – mapping to NHS Drivers
- World Class Commissioning
- Care Quality Commission
- Draft Equality Framework for NHS
- Regional Equality Framework
Workshop C - Better together - a guide to good practice
Andrew Lawrence, Principal Associate, iCoCo
This workshop will provide an interactive experience about how NHS managers, planners and partners can improve health outcomes by contributing to community cohesion. Participants will be presented with a set of information about a place where there are tensions between different communities and significant health inequalities. Using this information you will help to develop an outline strategy to improve health and cohesion following the key stages of a Problem Tree approach:
- List problems, identify core problem, determine cause and effect relationships.
- Translate problems into objectives
- Group the objectives into related clusters and identify strategic options that will address each cluster. The Ten challenging questions that are posed in chapter 6 of “Better Together- a guide for people in the health service on how you can help build more cohesive communities” will be used as a check list of possible interventions that may be particularly effective.