Council Plan Delivery theme 3: promoting independence and healthier lives

Wirral is one of nine places in the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. As a place we work together to make service improvements across our communities. The main priority for our partnership is to keep our residents well and tackle the significant health inequalities that exist across Wirral.

We work across local public and voluntary sector partners together to improve access to health services and treatment for all residents whilst reducing health inequalities. Wirral provides strategic leadership over the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy. This strategy sets out the agreed priorities and activities which, through joined up effort, will create the best conditions for health and wellbeing for Wirral residents and communities.

Outcomes

  • people live independently for longer
  • people get the right care at the right time
  • quality improvements are made within the care sector
  • inequalities in health are reduced

What we will do

  • increase housing options for older people
  • provide services as close to home as possible
  • all Age Disability Review – new models/ways of working to be explored
  • provide health and social care services where people need them
  • implementation of the on-line assessment tool to support quality improvement of providers and services that require CQC inspection
  • deliver our Health and Wellbeing Strategy
  • deliver Wirral’s Combatting Drugs Strategy, Substance Misuse Treatment and Recovery Programme
  • develop a Local Tobacco Control Plan and Local Gambling Harm Strategy

How it will be measured

  • number of extra care housing units delivered
  • increased use of technology in the home
  • reduced cost of care
  • quality and range of care
  • CQC Inspection
  • measurable improvements in health across our population and reduced health inequalities
  • decrease in the number of drug-related deaths
  • reduction in the number of people smoking
  • number of adults and young people accessing substance misuse treatment services