Organisation:
Eastern Investing for Health Partnership - Down/Lisburn

Description:
The Eastern Board has lead responsibility for the outworking of the Investing for Health (IfH) strategy. It has established four IfH managers to lead this work in each of its four major geographical areas. The focus of this work is to encourage locally relevant intersectoral action planning and delivery across the breadth of the IfH agenda.

Within the Down Lisburn locality, this engagement is led through a number of multi-agency IfH partnership planning groups such as Down 2010 and the Colin Neighbourhood Health For All group. A number of Community of Interest (COI) groups have been established to develop and co-ordinate action in issue specific areas: Fit Futures, Physical Activity and Childhood Obesity, Fuel Poverty, Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention, Home Accident Prevention, Alcohol and Drugs, Sexual Health and Teenage Pregnancy, and Smoking.

The work of these partnerships culminates in the development of a locality Health Improvement Plan which provides a framework for action across community, statutory and voluntary partners and the shaping of service commissioning and investment within the area.

Contact name: Chris Totten

Address:
Investing for Health
Lisburn Health Centre
Linenhall Street
Lisburn

Postcode: BT28 1LU

Tel: (028) 9266 5181

Fax: (028) 9250 1319

Email: Chris.Totten@setrust.hscni.net

Website: www.wellnet-ni.com

Sector (statutory, voluntary, community, other): Statutory

Area of interest/expertise:
Community and interagency partnership working, project management, needs assessment, health improvement planning, development and commissioning, community/partnership action across the IfH agenda.

Mission statement:
The purpose of the Eastern Investing for Health Partnership (EIFHP) is to identify opportunities for improving health and wellbeing and to address health improvement through a wider determinants approach. The EIFHP produces cross sectoral health improvement plans to address the identified health and wellbeing needs of the local population based on the strategic aims and objectives of IfH.