Health Priorities Setting

Setting Priorities for Local Healthwatch

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

tags: Citizens Advice, Health and Wellbeing Board, health inequalities, joint health and wellbeing strategy, joint strategic needs assessment, jsna, mental health, social determinants of health,tackling health inequalities

Setting Priorities for Local Healthwatch

As Local Healthwatch organisations start to be confirmed they will immediately feel pressure to demonstrate impact. What factors does local Healthwatch need to take into account when determining its priorities? I was asked to give a short talk (10 minutes!) at the Healthwatch England Conference held on the 6th of February in Leeds – this is what I said.

There are no quick answers to determining local priorities – but in determining priorities it may be helpful to consider the following:

Which areas of work to prioritise?/.../