Luton Health Equity Town
Ways Of Working
As part of our
HET evaluation report we
have agreed that we will
utilise theory of change,
logic models. This is to allow
us to have a consistent
approach across our
priorities and measure our
impact as a health equity
system.
We utilised our public health funding to engage and stimulate Luton’s partners and wider health equity system to enable small projects that support promoting health
equity.
We have set up subgroups which are chaired by partners leading in the topic area and supported by public health. The purpose of these groups is to review and ensure recommendations are realistic and to monitor progress
against the report recommendations.
Measuring our journey
Evaluation report:
We wanted to understand whether the system understood what it meant to be a Marmot Place. We conducted an evaluation led by public health registrars and supported by the IHE. We found that whilst it was too early to evaluate the impact of becoming a Marmot Place, system partners were onboard, committed and understood what it meant to be a Marmot Place.We wanted to understand whether the system understood what it meant to be a Marmot Place. We conducted an evaluation led by public health registrars and supported by the IHE. We found that whilst it was too early to evaluate the impact of becoming a Marmot Place, system partners were onboard, committed and understood what it meant to be a Marmot Place.
Next Steps
We are committed to continuing to learn and test our Marmot Place approach. Our next steps are to:
Understand fully our impact within the health system but also within communities by completing our KPIs.
Understand fully our impact within the health system but also within communities by completing our KPIs.
Understand fully our impact within the health system but also within communities by completing our KPIs.
Luton's advice to other areas considering being a Marmot Place:
Look at how the 8 Marmot principles can be integrated into your organisational strategy so that it becomes a reference point for everyone in the organisation.
Work to embed a genuine understanding of health inequalities and a theory of change. Start with a movement in mind.
Don’t try to do everything undertaking one or two high impact work can help with getting the message out.
Housing and Health
This subgroup represents Housing and Health subgroup as part of Luton’s Health Equity System. The subgroup will contribute to keeping oversight and strategic delivery of housing and health actions linking to the recommendations in the Marmot report and beyond as appropriate.
Employment, Skills and Work
- Continued wider workforce wellbeing includes supporting Good Business Charter accreditation work through Inclusive Economy
- TLC Anchor Institutions Coaching. Worked with commissioned provider and LGA for cultural competency training
- Scoping with BLMK ICS, OHID and DWP on Workwell programme to support the economically inactive, those on long term sickness, and those with long term conditions back into work
- Implementation and delivery of wellbeing support for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) through the Open University Ageing Well Pledge, leaflets and health promotion
- Implementation of Digital upgrade of Health and wellbeing pages on Luton.gov site
Children and Young People
The Children and Young People’s HET strand is using a quality improvement approach to development. This will involve using quality improvement tools and processes to identify the issues and drivers that will move the recommendations from the report forward. Work areas that are being developed and are in early stages of implementation include:
Health and Built Environment
In progress.
Net Zero
In progress.