Performance Report 2004-2005 Health, Wellbeing and Care

Our priorities over the four years of the plan are to

• Reduce tobacco and alcohol consumption
• Improve food choice and access to healthy food
• Increase participation in physical exercise
• Promote healthy workplaces
• Complete our work to integrate services that provide access to care, and increase capacity within partner agencies to deliver health improvement and care

To reflect these our actions in Year 2004 to 2005 have included:

• Introducing a smoking cessation programme and agreement to appoint a Smoking Cessation Co-ordinator within NHS to lead partnership efforts

• Development of teaching resources that help prevent young people taking up smoking

• Promotion of the Breastfeeding Friendly Lanarkshire Campaign to make sure mums and babies are more easily able to breastfeed, and training of frontline staff in breastfeeding awareness

• Through the Alcohol and Drug Action Team and NHS developing a tool for measuring the impact of alcohol

• Introducing an audit of community cafes to start a refurbishment programme and healthy options training for staff

• Setting up new non-gym and non-sport physical activities to increase the participation in physical exercise

Case Study:

The 'Street League' project was introduced to help vulnerable people such as homeless people to use football to develop their self-esteem and confidence while improving their health. Other initiatives include physical activity programmes called 'Moving Aboot', in older people's day and residential units. Groups such as Hope for Autism, Active Steps, and After Hours Care are users of our children's 'Activ-8' gyms

• Increasing the use of single assessments and support to care groups such as Learning Disability, Mental Health, Addiction Services and Children's Services

• Helping more older people to stay in their own homes by increasing intensive home support, providing more community alarms, and increasing the numbers receiving care and repair services