A three year plan to improve the health of the population in a health authority area. It is produced in partnership with all local health and social care organisations and other organisations whose services affect health.
Health Authorities will lead the development of Health Improvement Programmes, which will identify the health needs of local people, and what needs to be done to meet them. Health authorities will work with a number of agencies in devising this strategic approach to healthcare.
A three year health improvement plan produced by the local NHS, working in partnership with local authorities, voluntary organisations, the business and the public
A document produced by the Health Board describing how it will improve the health of the population over the next 5 years.
Health Improvement Programmes (HImPs) were introduced in the Government's white paper The New NHS, in December 1997. In Gloucestershire, PCTs work with LPTs to develop local HImPs covering each local council area. These individual plans then feed into the main countywide document. HImPs cover issues such as teenage pregnancies, smoking cessation and preventing falls in the elderly. They address national priorities set out by the department of health and also locally identified priorities for improving health.
Health Authorities will lead the development of Health Improvement Programmes. These programmes will identify the health needs of local people and what needs to be done to meet them. Health authorities will work with a number of agencies to do this. Home Help Home helps are people employed by Adult Social Care and are paid to care for you in your own home. We will arrange home help for you if your assessment of nee (above) shows that you need it. Other people paid to care for you at home are often called Care Assistants. You can employ them through various organisation and agencies. See Direct Payments (above).
