Meet The Team
Craig Mckeith  Health Development Manager Tel: 01270 537240	Donna Williamson Senior Health Project Coordinator Tel: 01270 537242	Joe Doran Health Projects Co-ordinator 01270 537241

“The Borough Council’s health development team manages and delivers a range of projects based on two key principles:

1. local authority has a key role to play in improving the health of the local population.
2. The Council should take positive steps to ensure that its work impacts on as many people as possible, particularly targeting those in greatest need.

Clearly, the determinants of health are wide ranging and local authorities deliver a range of services which directly influence those factors, including housing, planning, environmental health, leisure and community development work.

The work of the Health Development Team tends to focus on those “lifestyle” factors which people are able to affect by changing or moderating their behaviour. A key feature of the programmes is that they are delivered in partnership with health agencies and other organizations who are able to provide access to individuals and groups with particular health needs who might otherwise be difficult to reach.”

Health Development Projects

The council has a key role to play in improving the health of the local population and should take positive steps to ensure that its work impacts on as many people as possible, particularly targeting those in greatest need.

A key feature of working in partnership with health agencies and others is that they provide us with access to individuals and groups with particular health needs who might otherwise be difficult to reach. Our initiatives are a mixture of both prevention, therapy and rehabilitation in terms of health improvement and can be applied at various stages along a client’s care pathway.

Some our programmes therefore are linked to existing health services, but they are all new, and do not replace services previously delivered by health agencies. The majority of projects tend to target a specific group related either to health need or geographical location, with the activity and setting tailored to appeal to, and meet he needs of, that particular group.

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