Prevention Programme –Healthy Steps Together, Demonstrator Sites - Expression of Interest - Oct 2015
Healthy London Partnership – Prevention Programme
Healthy Steps Together- Expression of Interest Submission
Please submit your completed bid, with any supporting documentation via email to the Prevention Programme Team at: by close of play on Tuesday 17thNovember.
Healthy London Partnership is seeking expressions of interest from sites to partner with HLP, key stakeholders and a team of experts that include public health, behavioural change and user-centred design expertise to evaluate existing practices across a range of community settings (school, housing and primary care) to identify how the wider community environment and interplay of relationships can influence healthier decision-making.
In stage one of the programme, we are looking to work with sites that are keen to work with us to focus on co-developing innovative solutions that will impact on the levels of overweight and obese children and their families within these settings.
Q1. Who is making the application? (Name of the entity or partnership that is applying, and name and contact details of the person best able to field queries about the application.)•Lead organisation:
•Location of lead organisation:
•Other partners if joint application:
•Lead contact person and contact details:
•Has the local CCG and/or local authority/Borough Lead been involved in the application:
Q2. Which of the prevention demonstrators are you applying for? (Please select one setting from Schools/ Primary care/ Housing)
Capability Review and Application Guidance – what are we looking for?
Your organisation may demonstrate the following areas of expertise and capability:
As a site, your organisation may demonstrate the following areas of expertise and capability:
•Passionate and committed to improving the health of the local communityand the capability to lead by example with a track-record of successful implementation of public health prevention programmes;
•Capacity and commitment to work holistically across boundaries with a broad range of partners and support an integrated approach to prevention with active and synergistic local relationships, for example the support of local commissioners, providers, health professionals and community groups;
•A clear and ambitious outcome-based vision, innovative and creative ideas for prevention-based initiatives that are rooted in evidence and learning from good practice;
•Open to co-development of new initiatives and/or amplify the impact of existing initiatives
•Committed to sharing best practice, including exploring future opportunity to integrate the approach with new models of care and to promote London-wide learning of the benefits of the approach
•A commitment to support the programme implementation and a desire to move at pace with us to test a new approach, with the potential to prototype and test innovative solutions
•A commitment to the collection and analysis of standardised data to enable real-time monitoring and evaluation.
Q3. Please briefly describe how your organisation meets the key criteria as above.
Q4.Please outline your understanding of the health challenge, barriers and need for prevention in your community and where possible, comment on the scale and specific challenge you face locally with overweight and obese children and families. (eg. Comment on levels of overweight and obesity, identified high-risk populations, health inequalities and supporting infrastructure)
Q5. What steps you have already undertaken to improve the health of the population within this setting, specifically to reduce the incidence of overweight and obesity?
(Please summarise achievements you have already made towards improving the health of the population in this setting (response can be broader than describing your chosen initiative/programme of work). Please include any existing programmes (national, London or local) that you have implemented over the last 3 years and where you have got to with these)
Q6. If chosen to participate in the prevention demonstrator, how do you feel this would add to your existing programme of work? How would you identify the population that would most benefit from the learnings and solutions developed as part of the programme?
Q7.Chosen sites will work with the design team as part of the diagnostic, design and trialling of initiatives. Although this time commitment will not be too onerous, it will require your commitment to engage.
Do you have any specific posts within your setting who would be a point of delivery support to work with the Project team? (e.g. health and wellbeing officer, parent engagement lead)
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