health impacts - how to plan for, deliver and demonstrate the health impacts of your project

Health ImpactsHealth ImpactsHow to plan for, deliver and demonstrate the How to plan for, deliver and demonstrate the

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“The potential benefits of physical activity are huge. If a medication existed which has a similar effect, it would be regarded as a wonder drug or miracle cure.”

Professor Sir Liam Donaldson

Chief Medical Officer, March 2010

Learning outcomes

You will be able to:

1. Identify, plan for and demonstrate the health impacts of your project

(or at least have a better idea of where to start)

Quiz – fill in the blanks

• Children and young people (5-18) should do at least ___ minutes of ____intensity activity every day

• Adults (19-64) should do at least ___ minutes of moderate intensity activity, or at least ___ minutes of ____intensity activity weekly

• __ % of boys and __ % of girls in England do the recommended amount of activity

• Those in the ____ income quartile are more likely than those in the ____ income quartile to be doing the recommended amount

Education

Genes

Physical activity

Sex

Drugs

Crime

Pollution

Alcohol

Training

Job

Neighbours

Smoking

Green space

Noise

StressMoney

Family

Friends

Sleep

The determinants of health

Employment

Training

Inclusion

Positive Activities

Coaching

Talent Developmen

t

Volunteering

Participation

Wellbeing

Drugs &

Alcohol

Teenage pregnanc

yObesit

y

Health

Crime

Sport

Regeneration

StreetGames

Tools

1,000 newDoorstep Sport Clubs

Who commissions?

Currently:

PCTs and some local authorities

with

Discretionary budgets

Coming soon:

Local authorities and Health & Wellbeing Boards

with

Ring-fenced funding

What is commissioning?

A structured way of deciding how public money should be spent strategically.

It involves: Assessing need Identifying resources available Procuring services Monitoring and evaluating

It is more than just contracting.

Doorstep Sport Clubs as Health

Improvement Agencies

Why bother?

Delivering and demonstrating health impacts is:

Good for your participants

Good for your credibility as a project

And it:

Improves your chances of funding, especially from health sources

Sets you apart from other projects

The truths

You don’t need to be experts in public health

You don’t need to know how the body works medically

You do need to understand what Directors of Public Health want

You do need to prove you can help e.g. by getting people active long-term

National work

• Responsibility Deal

• National partners (CTC, MEND)

• Tools

• Pilots

• NHS

• Briefing papers

right style

right place

right price

right time

paul.jarvis@streetgames.org07889 046106