Organisation:
Eastern Investing for Health Partnership - South/East/Castlereagh

Description:
The approach undertaken by the Eastern area Investing for Health Partnership (EIFHP) to progress planning and delivery on the Investing for Health (IfH) agenda has been to locate an IfH manager within four geographical areas and to encourage locally relevant intersectoral action planning and delivery.

For South and East Belfast and Castlereagh, this has led to the establishment of multi-agency Community of Interest (COI) groups. These include a Fit Futures/Childhood Obesity COI, Fuel Poverty COI, and a Mental Health Promotion COI. This locality approach ensures an overall programme of action based on local need and the headings of the seven IFH objectives. A locality health improvement plan is generated and monitored on an annual basis, and implementation of the plan is supported by the resourcefulness and willingness of organisations to come around tables to prioritise and deliver.

Contact name: Maurice Meehan

Address:
Glen Villa
Knockbracken Healthcare Park
Saintfield Road
Belfast

Postcode: BT8 8BH

Tel: (028) 9056 3718

Fax: (028) 9056 4972

Email: Maurice.Meehan@belfasttrust.hscni.net

Website: www.wellnet-ni.com

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

Area of interest/expertise:
Evaluation and monitoring, poverty interventions, Healthy Living Centres

Mission statement:
The purpose of the 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.