Action learning projects
Health OSCs were able to bid for £20,000 to support action learning in health scrutiny. 26 projects were supported from 2004 to 2007 in each government office region. The programme helped non-executive councillors and their NHS and public health partners to learn together about the experience of health scrutiny so that they could develop processes locally and share lessons nationally.
Round 1 (2004/05):
- Bexley: young peoples health
- Bradford: obesity
- Cornwall: patient pathways
- Coventry: breastfeeding
- Cumbria: teenage health
- Darlington: breastfeeding
- Derbyshire: sexual health
- Norfolk: palliative care
- Oxfordshire: chronic illness
Round 2 (2005/06):
- Essex: diet, nutrition and exercise
- Gloucestershire: supporting drug users
- Kent: preventing illness through physical activity
- Merton: community leadership to improve health
- Sheffield: child and adolescent mental health
- South Tyneside: community engagement to improve health
- Stockport: tackling inequalities in a deprived ward
- Telford and Wrekin: alcohol reduction and treatment
- Tower Hamlets: delivering ‘Choosing Health’
Round 3 (2006/07)
- Cumbria: Care Management for Older People
- Greenwich: Building Healthy Urban Environments
- Haringey: Primary Care for People with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
- Leeds: Community Development in Health and Wellbeing
- Lewisham: Men's Health
- Nottingham: NHS Walk-in Centres
- Salford: Partnerships to Tackle Long Term Conditions
- Wandsworth: Better Access to General Practice
Lessons from the action learning programme have been captured in two publications:
Sharing the Learning (October 2006)
Learning Together (June 2007)
A third publication to complete the series will be published in autumn 2007