Gadsby, Erica W., Peckham, Stephen, Coleman, Anna, Segar, Julia, Perkins, Neil, Jenkins, Linda M., Bramwell, Donna (2015) PHOENIX: Public Health and Obesity in England – the New Infrastructure eXamined First interim report: the scoping review. PRUComm, 15 pp. (KAR id:47725)
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Abstract
The PHOENIX project aims to examine the impact of structural changes to the health and care system in England on the functioning of the public health system, and on the approaches taken to improving the public’s health.
The scoping review has now been completed. During this phase we analysed: Department of Health policy documents (2010-2013), as well as responses to those documents from a range of stakeholders; data from 22 semi-structured interviews with key informants; and the oral and written evidence presented at the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee on the role of local authorities in health issues. We also gathered data from local authority (LA) and Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) websites and other sources to start to develop a picture of how the new structures are developing, and to collate demographic and other data on local authorities. A number of important themes were identified and explored during this phase. In summary, some key points related to three themes - governance, relationships and new ways of working - were:
The reforms have had a profound effect on leadership within the public health system. Whilst LAs are now the local leaders for public health, in a more fragmented system, leadership for public health appears to be more dispersed amongst a range of organisations and a range of people within the LA. At national level, the leadership role is complex and not yet developed (from a local perspective).
The extent to which ‘system leaders’ within PHE are able to influence local decisions and performance will depend on the strength of relationships principally between the LA and the local Public Health England centre. These relationships will take time to develop.
HWBs could be crucial in bringing together a fragmented system and dispersed leadership.
The next phase of data collection will begin in March with the initiation of case study work. National surveys will be conducted in June/July this year (2014), and at the same time the following year. In this work, we will further explore the following themes: relationships, governance, decision making, new ways of working, and opportunities and difficulties.
Item Type: | Research report (external) |
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies |
Depositing User: | Stephen Peckham |
Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2015 16:49 UTC |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2020 04:12 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/47725 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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