Health & Older People Sub-group
The Health & Older People Sub-group is a thematic delivery group
of Tunbridge Wells Together (TWT), the Tunbridge Wells Local Strategic
Partnership (LSP). As such, it will advise TWT on the content of the
Sustainable Community Strategy and the Local Area Agreement Two (LAA2)
and will support their delivery in relation to Health and Older People
and related issues.
The purpose of the Health & Older People’s Sub-group is to
both advise the LSP and to provide a vehicle for implementing its decisions.
The Health & Older People’s Sub-group will aim to:
- Provide opportunities for representatives to engage together in
a constructive forum to consider and recommend actions on health
and older people and related issues
- To respond to requests when consulted by any LSP partner on specific
topics within its remit
- To contribute to the development and implementation of the Sustainable
Community Strategy and to monitor delivery of actions and targets
within these
The Sub-group will have a specific role in monitoring and implementing
the provisions of the Local Area Agreement specifically:
NII 120 – all age, all causes, mortality rate
NII 55 – obesity in primary school age children in reception
NII 39 – rate of hospital admissions per one hundred thousand
for alcohol related harm
NII 40 – number of drug users recorded as being in effective
treatment
NII 125 – achieving independence for older people through rehabilitation/intermediate
care
NII 51 – effectiveness of child and adolescent mental health
(CAMHS) services
NI 8 – adult Participation in sport and active recreation
The Sub-group will also seek to deliver the outcomes of the Public
Health Strategy for Kent – “Live Life to the Full”
– specifically:
- Reducing health inequality significantly
- Improving children’s mental health and wellbeing
- Improving sexual health and reducing teenage pregnancies
- More adults living healthier lives and preventing more disease
- Enabling more older people to live at home with chronic disease
- Reducing substance misuse and excessive alcohol drinking
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