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Healthier Communities And Older People

 
Greenwich is one of the areas with the highest levels of deprivation and health inequalities in the country. To address this, the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit is working with partners to improve the health and well-being in the borough's most deprived areas, such as the Neighbourhood Renewal priority areas.

Improving Health: Cutting Inequalities

Working closely with the Improving Health: Cutting Inequalities partnership, we have commissioned a range of initiatives, including:

  • additional services to help people stop smoking
  • a pilot project for stroke prevention and support
  • services to increase the take-up of benefits
  • a programme to reduce the harm caused by alcohol consumption
  • a model for health improvement at the neighbourhood level.
The initiatives have all been developed based on sound evidence.

Find out about the Improving Health: Cutting Inequalities partnership.

Healthy Neighbourhoods programme

Begun in 2005, this project aims to ensure that people living in the most deprived areas are able to receive a range of services and activities that will support healthy living. It provides practical support to help people:

  • stop smoking
  • increase their levels of physical activity
  • eat a healthier diet
  • improve mental health and wellbeing.
The programme has also trained residents and staff in local agencies as Community Health Promoters (part of the national Health Trainers Programme). The promoters provide one-to-one support to people wanting to make healthy choices.

The Healthy Neighbourhoods programme has made good progress towards establishing an effective model for delivering health promotion services within disadvantaged communities.

Projects and funding (2006-08)

Here is a list of projects funded under the Healthier Communities And Older People theme.

  • Age Concern Greenwich – outreach surgeries/Good Neighbour scheme - £136,262.57
  • Stroke Prevention In Action -  £84,000
  • Pensioner benefits take-up project - £119,860
  • Living Longer: Living Well – supporting healthy ageing in Greenwich - £279,366
  • Kick The Habit - £111,300
  • Sexual health outreach to young people in community settings - £61,875
  • Risk Factors Prevalence Strategy £36,000
  • Alcohol Strategy Implementation: Queen Elizabeth Alcohol project - £113,776
  • Healthy Neighbourhoods Continuation project - £198,748.
Projects that cut across themes (Healthier Communities And Older People and Children And Families):

  • Breast feeding support and advocacy programme - £175,598 (total Neighbourhood Renewal funding £409,728)
  • Best Beginnings: teenage midwife support project £92,996 (total NRF £216,990)
  • Teenage Pregnancy: PSI initiatives, roll-out of Teen Talk and Virtual Clinics project - £64,947 (total Neighbourhood Renewal funding £232,562).

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