Wednesday 17 May | 15:00-16:00

Format: Presentation
Stream: Population and public health
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PART ONE – Connecting Care for Children – the key to reducing health inequalities?

What is the most effective way to reduce health inequalities? This session is about the potential to improve population health through proactive, integrated child health. The session describes a model that connects the resources of the NHS with the resources in our communities: professionals and citizens together generating important benefits. When patients, the public and professionals work for the health and wellbeing of child, it impacts all generations in the family and the surrounding community with the potential for true ‘levelling-up’.

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Develop connections with patients and citizens at their workplace to create an agile service that effectively meets changing needs


• Better support children and young people – and therefore the adults of tomorrow – to enable earlier intervention, and thereby better health and better use of existing NHS resources


• Using the examples of asthma and adolescent transition, understand how to improve access to healthcare and reduce health inequalities

Mando Watson, Connecting Care for Children, England

Dr Katie Malbon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

PART TWO – #2035 – a place-based anchor collaborative to improve population health and equity

Interested in moving the work of your hospital or healthcare system beyond being a ‘repair shop’? Curious to explore ways in which you can think differently about working in partnership with other organisations beyond healthcare to improve health and equity within your local communities?

In this interactive workshop, a team from an NHS hospital trust and local government working together within the borough of Westminster, in London, will share their learning from their first steps within the #2035 collaborative – which aims to halve the current 14 year life expectancy gap by 2035 – to do just that. We will share learning that includes utilising QI approaches across population health challenges.

After this session, participants will: 

• Understand the need for health and care systems across the globe to think differently about how they approach improving the wider determinants of health


• See the value of building local place-based partnerships in order to drive improvements to the health, wealth and wellbeing of local communities 


• Understand more about an approach that starts with need, involves a blend of quality improvement and community engagement and is clear about the need to cede power

Dr Bob Klaber, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England

Serena Simon, Westminster City Council, England