Strengthening collaboration to deliver our Strategic Plan Claire

Strengthening collaboration to deliver our Strategic Plan Claire Sweeney, Director of Place and Wellbeing 3 Feb 2021

Public Health Scotland

Our ambition • Our engagement with others will be purposeful and we will begin by prioritising those partners which will help to deliver the biggest impacts for communities. • Collaboration will focus on the collective contribution we can make to the six public health priorities. • In our interactions with others we will be clear on: • our purpose • our offer • our ask • the desired outcome of our collaboration.

Where we are now • Executive Team have begun to engage key stakeholders and develop collaborations. • Organisations who have a significant impact on public health. • This has fed into and helped shape the Delivery Programmes which are under development. • We are also mapping our key stakeholders across the organisation and developing an approach to strengthening and managing these partnerships which we will embed from April. • Some strong existing relationships with a wide range of stakeholders but need to tie these into our strategic plan and ensure they are purposeful.

Strengthening collaboration

Third sector

Glasgow City Region City Deal Funding and embedding a public health post - part of development and implementation of refreshed 10 -year Regional Economic Strategy. Aims: • improve health and reduce health inequalities by facilitating more effective working arrangements with, and providing advice and support to, regional economic partnerships. • maximise the influence PHS can have on economic decision making so that it best supports the outcomes of improved health and reduced health inequalities. • develop an understanding of partnership needs in this area and the added value that PHS can bring in order to help PHS develop its ways of working and work programme.

Police Scotland • Collaboration Framework (under development) • Focus of year 1: • Developing a shared preventative approach to mental health and wellbeing • Delivering a collaborative leadership programme. • Strengthening data and intelligence sharing. • Practicalities: • Ambition to move towards a more preventative approach to mental health. Exploring joining their governance group and supporting a public health approach to their work on mental health • Ambition to put prevention at the core of their Children and Young People’s strategy.

sportscotland Partnership agreement (under development) Priorities include: • Working together to provide national strategic leadership and oversight. • Supporting the roll-out of the National Physical Activity Pathway collaboratively. • Co-leading the development of Local Authority Physical Activity Strategies with identified local authority areas.

Scottish Water Priorities: • Blue green infrastructure for flooding alleviation and health and wellbeing support in disadvantaged areas – investment plans • Utilisation of Scottish Water assets and spaces for health and wellbeing support / vibrant communities • Use of PHS data to support social capital insights in decision making • One Health project – social prescribing to improve physical and health in disadvantaged communities and reduce pharmaceutical environmental impact • Engagement with Edinburgh / Glasgow partnerships on place making Next steps - show and tell planned

Shaping Healthier Places • Programme currently under-development • £ 500 k will be made available for local partnerships in Scotland • Aim is to create the conditions for better health by enabling system -wide partnership action on the wider determinants of health at a local level

Next steps The Board are asked to: • Comment on the approach so far and future priorities for collaboration. • Note how the Board would like to be updated on progress. • Consider how to showcase the impact of this work. • Comment on how we best engage strategically with the third sector.