Issue details
ip&e Public Health
Shropshire Council recognised that preventive health was central to
its objective of helping people to live long, healthy and
productive lives.
Since April 2013, the Council had
assumed primary responsibility for public health commissioning in
Shropshire, and now wished to integrate prevention services under
the working title of Help2Change, building on the wealth of
behaviour change expertise that exists
within the County, and focusing on collaboration, innovation and
research.
Help2Change would combine health
intelligence, social marketing and behavioural change support to unlock opportunities
for health improvement. It would aim to
prevent or delay the onset of long-term conditions, improve quality
of life, narrow inequalities in health, and reduce health and
social care costs.
The Council’s
proposal was to establish Help2Change as a new, separate legal
entity that was non-profit distributing (i.e. as a company limited
by guarantee subsidiary to ip&e
Limited) to enable income generated to be reinvested to enable
further prevention and fulfilment of
health and wellbeing outcomes for Shropshire.
ip&e had indicated, in principle, a willingness to develop Help2Change and deliver prevention services on behalf of Shropshire Council and also to develop the commercial aspects of the services in order to generate income that could be reinvested into the delivery of health and wellbeing outcomes within Shropshire.
The Council now wished to engage with ip&e Limited, with a view to developing a method of delivering the integrated Help to Change services.
Decision type: Key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Decisions
- 09/04/2014 - Help2change - Integrated Prevention Services
Agenda items
- 09/04/2014 - Cabinet Help2change - Integrated Prevention Services 09/04/2014