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Thriving Healthy

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The main priorities of the Thriving Healthy partnership are to:

  • Promote physical, mental and social wellbeing
  • Reduce the gap between the life expectancy of Hackney residents and the rest of the country
  • Encourage participation in culture and leisure, and in sporting and physical activity
  • Improve services to vulnerable people and enable them to live as independently as possible
  • Promote voluntary activity to build stronger communities
  • Improve access to health care and promote healthy living.

The Partnership Support Officer for Thriving, Healthy is Francis Kaikumba, who can be called on 020 8356 3148 or e-mailed via francis.kaikumba@hackney.gov.uk for more information.

The City and Hackney PCT website, www.fitchance.org, provides advice for people of all ages on how to make practical changes to their lifestyle to combat obesity.  An estimated 18% of adults in Hackney are obese and levels in children are likely to be higher than average.

 

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Local Involvement Networks (LINks)

From April 2008 LINks will replace the existing Patient and Public Involvement Forums (PPIFs). The LINks function will be to promote and support the involvement of local people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of health and social care services.  To find out more about LINks see the Department of Health leaflet, Local Involvement Networks explained.

The following document explains how Hackney is preparing for LINks:

Word (doc) Document Team Hackney report to Health Overview Scrutiny Commission. (108KB)

For more information about LINks contact Francis Kaikumba at francis.kaikumba@hackney.gov.uk.