Coventry City Council, Coventry Teaching PCT and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust:
Learning from experience: older people in hospital and after discharge
This award celebrates how scrutiny has benefited the delivery of public health services.
The judges were looking at ways in which scrutiny has challenged the executive in an engaging and meaningful way. They assessed the ways in which the health scrutineers engaged with the general public and enabled their concerns about health or social services to be heard.
Judges looked at how the scrutiny has either improved services or has laid the foundation for those improvements.
They were also be interested to hear about innovative approaches to health scrutiny.
IDeA Healthy Communities Programme
The IDeA works for local government improvement so councils can serve people and places better.
The Healthy Communities Programme, funded by the Department of Health, aims to build the capacity of local authorities to:
The IDeA is part of the LGA Group. We work together to support, promote and improve local government - IDeA Healthy Communities
