• ensure the delivery of Fife 's Community Plan around the agreed strategic priorities of improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.

• provide a strong health and wellbeing element to the delivery of the Community Plan.

   

• provide strategic focus within which partner organisations and local communities can reduce health inequalities; create healthier environments and support healthier lifestyles

   

There ar many organisations, services, groups and agencies that contribute to improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities in fife.  FHWA will provide a strategic lead for this work by:

• promoting and developing and the implementation of the Joint Health Improvement Plan (JHIP) 'A Healthier Future for Fife' (2007-2010) across partnership organisations
• reviewing performance against health and wellbeing outcomes through reports provided by the JHIP Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and provide public information on progress
• reporting to Fife Partnership on progress of JHIP implementation and any other key issues related to improving health and wellbing and reducing health inequalities in Fife.
•  working with other community planning partner organisations that are not members of FHWA or its supporting groups
• supporting the development of community planning partners as health improvement organisations by promoting the health improvement organisation principles, outlined within the JHIP, within FHWA member organisations and across other community planning partners
• ensuring local implementation of national policy and initiatives around improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities, providing partnership recommendations on any linked funding and reviewing the impact of funding on progress towards agreed health and wellbeing outcomes for Fife.

Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance (FHWA) includes key managers and elected representatives from Fife Council, NHS Fife and the Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) Fife.

Fife Council

Councillor Tim Brett

Councillor Fiona Grant

Councillor Mark Hood

Steve Grimmond, Executive Director, Local Community and Housing Services

Garry Crosbie, Senior Manager, Education Service

NHS Fife

Jim McGoldrick, Chair

George Brechin, Chief Executive

Edward Coyle, Director of Public Health

Norma Wilson, Chair, Kirkcaldy/Levenmouth CHP

Graham Watson, Chair, Glenrothes/NE Fife CHP

Ben Conway, Chair, Dunfermline/WestFife CHP

David Stewart, Chair, Operating Division

CVS Fife

Bryan Poole, Manager

Fife Council/NHS Fife

Vivienne Brown, Partnership Co-ordinator

For further information on the work of Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance contact Vivienne Brown, Partnership Co-ordinator

Tel: 08451 55 55 55 Ext. 441245

e-mail: vivienne.brown@fife.gov.uk

FHWA Meeting, Committee Room Three, Fife House, North Street, Glenrothes

Date: Thursday 5 June 2008, 2pm