Dr Julie Higgins

Organisation
Healthy City Executive

Job title/role
Chair

E-mail address
julie.higgins@salford-pct.nhs.uk

Website
www.salford-pct.nhs.uk

Area covered by organisation
Salford

Organisation's aims/vision
The Healthy City Executive aims to achieve:
- the pledge of Salford City Council to improve the health, wellbeing and social care of people in Salford
- the Primary Care Trust (PCT) pledge to: help everyone enjoy longer and healthier lives
- the vision of Salford Strategic Partnership

Organisation's key objectives
The Healthy City Executive will drive the implementation of the Health Inequalities Strategy. It will:
- Provide assurance, scrutiny and performance management of the delivery of the Health Inequalities Strategy focused on the:
         - Health inequalities partnerships and sub-groups
         - Affiliated groups delivering health inequalities strategy priorities
         - Other funded work programmes
- Identify strategies where partners working together will improve health by reducing inequalities more than working in isolation
- Ensure action is taken by other thematic partnerships to improve health by reducing inequalities
- Report to Salford Strategic Partnership, the PCT board and Cabinet on the progress of the Health Inequalities Strategy and from the Partnership to the sub-groups
- Promote an understanding in agencies and communities in Salford of the determinants of health, Salford health assets and local health inequalities
- To influence investment for health by ensuring funding streams are targeted at those that most contribution to make in improving health
- Making commissioning decisions that pertain to health improvement, driven by health equity audit and our understanding of the local population's needs