Case studies

Partners in Care and Health (PCH) peers provided support to improve integrated working at place; workshops were held leading to two workstreams on admissions avoidance and discharge to assess. The new director of adult social services says the process helped her hit the ground running.

Partners in Care and Health (PCH) worked with 10 councils in the East Midlands Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) Network to improve partnership working and address common public health challenges. The Directors of Public Health and their teams completed the public health strengths and risks self-assessment tool in two stages. A range of new workstreams have now been launched; and the councils also report the support has had the added benefit of helping prepare for CQC inspections and appraisals.

The London borough approached Partners in Care and Health (PCH) to undertake a peer challenge to look at how public health resources were being utilised. The Director of Public Health saw the peer challenge as an opportunity to further develop place-based partnership working. The process has helped the council know what is working and where it needs to do things. differently.

Rotherham requested Partners in Care and Health’s (PCH) support to undertake the public health strengths and risks self-assessment tool. The work identified a series of strengths and challenges from community engagement to supporting members which are now being addressed. The support comes ahead of a three-day regional Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) peer review later this year.

Hertfordshire County Council, technology company Robotiz3d and academics at the University of Liverpool have successfully developed an innovative AI-powered solution for road maintenance.

Newham Council and the University of East London have forged a strategic partnership to establish a UK-based centre dedicated to pioneering AI research, training and solutions for the public sector.

Every Marmot Place is different. Factors such as geography, demography or the economy impact on the social determinants of health and in turn the local population.

For Cheshire and Merseyside, as with many Marmot Places, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked collective action across the region’s nine local authorities to address and tackle existing and deepening health inequalities.

Luton, a town with a population of 225,300, is a diverse community where 55 per cent of residents come from ethnic minority backgrounds.

In 2019, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, already conscious of the persisting health inequalities across its region, commissioned the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE) to help establish a Marmot City Region, focussing on reducing health inequalities in the social determinants of health.