The Liverpool First Executive Team often organises events for the partnership, to help share information on policy and best practice.

These pages are intended for members of the partnership to use as a resource for up-and-coming events, either for further information or for downloading more details and presentations following the event.

To do our bit to minimise our impact on the environment, we try to limit the amount of handouts we provide delegates and visitors to events. Many of the presentations we produce or host will be stored on these archive pages.

Liverpool's approach to beating Health Inequalities

Since October 2009 Liverpool First has held four partner capacity building events focused on the subject of Health Inequalities in Liverpool.

The last event was held on Wednesday 23 June at St George's Hall with guest speaker, Professor Sir Michael Marmot.

The session was aimed at moving the partnership from capacity building to action planning and delivery through the drafting of our health inequalities strategy. 

Professor Marmot, from University College London wrote the influential “Fair Society, Healthy Lives - Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010” report, an independent review into health inequalities in England, which can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.marmotreview.org.

The event was introduced by Cllr Joe Anderson, leader of Liverpool City Council, followed on by Professor Marmot who gave his presentation focusing on findings on his report and the six policy objectives underpinning his findings.

1)      Give every child the best start in life

2)      Enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives

3)      Create fair employment and good work for all

4)      Ensure healthy standard of living for all

5)      Create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities

6)      Strengthen the role and impact of ill health prevention.

Following Professor Marmot’s presentation Tony Boyle, health inequalities coordinator for Liverpool First updated delegates on progress of the inequalities work so far. Tony was followed by Mike Hagen, Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Merseyside Fire and Rescue who gave a presentation around his service’s work in the field of health inequalities. Partners where then able to discuss how the six policy objectives could be incorporated into the city’s emerging health inequalities strategy.

Dr Sandra Davies, Associate Director of Public Health for Liverpool Primary Care Trust and chair of the Health Inequalities steering group chaired the session and drew down conclusions from the table discussions. Sandra then summed up and closed proceedings.

Material from the day is now available below. The documents include; the full event report, delegate feedback and voting on Liverpool's priorities, a Liverpool health quiz and presentation from Sir Michael Marmot: Fair Society Healthy Lives.

Document download

• Fair Society Healthy Lives (PowerPoint 5mb)
• Event report (PDF 56kb)
• Delegate feedback (PDF 97kb)
• Health quiz report (Word 100kb)

The last session

The fifth and final Health Inequalities Capacity Building Leadership session was held in Liverpool on 23 November, 2010. The national expert due to speak at the event was Professor Jennie Popay, University of Lancaster on ‘Enablers and Barriers of community empowerment as a strategy for tackling health inequalities’.  However, due to unforeseen circumstances Professor Popay was unable to attend at the time but would welcome the opportunity to present her work to Liverpool.  The session continued with a more in-depth focus of the strategy development process and content.

• Download the full event report here (PDF 65kb)

Past sessions 

In October, Professor Richard Wilkinson from York University, author of 'The Spirit Level', discussed a range of subjects and helped focus partners on reducing the gap in health inequalities.

Below you'll find downloads from the day, which include a formal report of the findings and transcripts, and four presentations.

October 2009 document download

1. Health Inequalities workshop report 22 October (PDF 70kb)
2. The Spirit Level (PowerPoint 3.91mb)
3. 22 October report - am (PowerPoint 219kb)
4. 22 October report - pm (PowerPoint 220kb)
5. Partnership approach to tackling health and inequalities (PowerPoint 670kb)

In January 2010, Dr Alex Scott-Samuel gave a presentation on health inequalities. Dr Scott-Samuel is a leading expert in public health social policy from University of Liverpool.

Dr. Sandra Davies, Consultant in Public Health, Liverpool Primary Care Trust, chaired the session on behalf of the Liverpool First partnership and welcomed the 90 delegates to the event. 

Carol Perry, Director, Liverpool First, discussed the reasons for the programme, the support the Liverpool First Executive Board has given to the programme development and anticipated outcomes. 
 
Tony Boyle, Programme Coordinator, Liverpool First, provided a presentation to delegates on what the programme is aiming to achieve, where we started and where we have got to. The outcome of session one was highlighted and feedback from the evaluation discussed. Tony made it clear that evaluation feedback has been fed into the design for future events.

Below you'll find downloads from the day, which include a formal report of the findings and transcripts, and two presentations.

January 2010 document download

• Health Inequalities workshop report 15 January (PDF 1mb)
• Alex Scott-Samuel health strategy presentation (PowerPoint 1mb)
• Tony Boyle capacity building programme (PowerPoint 2mb)

The most recent event was held at Devonshire House on 23 March with Professor Chris Bentley. Chris is a leading voice in the field of health and inequalities who as a Director at the Department of Health leads the Health Inequalities National Support Team. His presentation 'Addressing Health Inequalities – from mystery and imagination to practical action' highlighted the key aspects a Health Inequalities strategy should tackle, as well as demonstrating some case studies from work undertaken in other areas of the UK.

Dr Paula Grey, Joint Director of Public Health also welcomed delegates to the event and was pleased to see the programme running into its third session. Dr Grey emphasised the need for a greater impact from the partnership in the next two years to tackle this issues. Chris has worked with Liverpool for many years and has assisted in focusing our efforts and improving actions in the neighbourhoods.

Since the last workshop in January 2010 we have received the Marmot Review and report; ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives - Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010'.  The key message from this review is we have to do things on a big scale and become more systematic in our approach. It’s not just about the most deprived it’s about delivering core services at a good standard and consistency. Levelling up health inequalities is not just about treating the poorest, it's about systematic action across the social gradient.

Tony Boyle, Health Inequalities Programme Coordinator, provided delegates with an overview of the programme so far, including our approach to producing a health inequalities strategy and action for the city.

A number of excellent table discussions were facilitated around the findings of Chris's presentation and contents of the ‘Systematically Addressing Health Inequalities’ booklet, in particular Section two, 'ten major lessons to date’. A full report is being written and will be uploaded to this page in due course.

The presentation and supporting documentation can be accessed by the hyperlinks below:

March 2010 document download

• 23 March event report (PDF 107kb)
• Health Inequalities – from mystery and imagination to practical action (PowerPoint 763kb)
• Systematically Addressing Health Inequalities (PDF 202kb)