The Healthy Croydon Partnership
Working together to achieve better outcomes
The main outcomes of working together have been:
- attracting additional resources
- better deployment of resources through joint commissioning
- better integration of services
- better joint planning of services
- promoting health and well being for all
- a clear focus on health inequalities
Healthy Croydon's successes so far
- contributed to a £20m SRB (single regeneration budget) bid for NW Croydon
- contributed to a £1m bid for a Healthy Living Centre network
- contributed to a Sure Start Programme
- set up its own 'Think Tank'
- set up health inequalities funding programmes
- is part of the national 'Communities for Health' programme
The 1999 Health Act
As a measure of its desire to innovate and work jointly, the partnership set up a series of 'Partnership in Action' projects to use the flexibilities provided by the 1999 Health Act to jointly provide health and social care services. Croydon was the first authority in London to register an integrated service under the Act. These were services for people with learning disabilities.
Subsequently, community services for people with mental health problems have similarly been integrated between social care and health services, operating under a single joint manager.
Joint strategies
The Healthy Croydon Partnership is also involved in the development of a number of joint strategies addressing issues such as smoking reduction, teenage pregnancy, obesity, mental health promotion and breastfeeding.
Beacon status
Croydon Council was awarded beacon status for its work on local health strategies in February 2001. Locally, the award was seen as recognition of the contributions of all partners to the success of the Healthy Croydon Partnership.
The work of Healthy Croydon has been featured as a model of good practice in a number of publications and at regional and national conferences.
Contact Details
- Contact name
- Steve Morton
- Job title
- Healthy Croydon Partnership Manager
- Telephone
- 020 8760 5773
- Fax
- 020 8407 1376
- steve.morton@croydon.gov.uk
- Address
- Healthy Croydon Support Unit
12th floor North West side
Taberner House
Park Lane
Croydon CR9 2BA
Downloads
Choosing Health consultation findings 2004
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- This report was submitted jointly by Croydon Primary Care Trust and Croydon Council in response to the national consultation ‘Choosing Health? - a consultation on improving people’s health’. The consultation response was co-ordinated through the Healthy Croydon Partnership, one of the theme partnerships within the Croydon Strategic Partnership.
