Health Inequalities Meeting

West Marsh Health Inequalities project

Friday 8^th July

Lounge Bar, Grimsby Town Hall

The meeting took place and the following people attended

Matt Cridge, Local Strategic Partnership Manager, NELSP

Andy Humphrey, Community Development Lead, GPCC

Fiona Corby, Children’s Centre Development Officer, NELC

Denise Barclay, Children’s Centre Co-ordinator, West Marsh, NELC

Cynthia Manson-Siddle, Deputy Director Public Health

Annie Darby, Public Health & Primary Care Project Lead, Care Trust Plus

John Mooney, West Marsh Community Development

Cllr Darren Billard

Nerys Davies, Research & Information Officer

Andrea Bratley, Principal Equalities Officer, NELC

Richard Topliss, Cultural Services Performance Manager, NELC

Jane Mansfield, Area Co-ordinator, NELC 

Sasha Erdejczuk, Admin (notes) (SE)

Louise Law, Employment Support Key Worker, NELC 

Codes for those who don't know: NELC = North East Lincolnshire Council

GPCC = GP Commissioning Consortium (This will replace the Care Trust Plus)

NELSP = North East Lincolnshire Strategic Partnership

Those attending the meeting discussed the direction that the Health Inequalities reduction work would take and they want to arrive at a partnership decision as to how this will be put in to practice.

The most important thing is that partners end up with an agreement as to the way they will approach making the West Marsh residents healthier and there was some agreement at the meeting that it wasn't just about health professionals giving advice but it was about making the West Marsh a better place to live all round. That would mean supporting the local voluntary and community organisations in the work they already do.

What I am trying to push for in this is that they take the approach of building up the work that local people already do over the long term rather than just doing short term projects which involve people coming from outside the area to do a piece of work and then disappear when the funding runs out.

If you feel you have something to contribute to this work let me know and we can talk about it in more detail.