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About the Directorate of Public
Health in Leicester
The Boards of both Eastern Leicester PCT and Leicester City West PCT agreed in January 2004 to form a single joint Directorate of Public Health. This business plan has been produced in order to ensure that the Directorate makes effective use of its resources against clear priorities, and that these have the support of both PCTs, local authority colleagues and other key partners.
The Joint Directorate is progressive, multi-disciplinary and currently accredited for public health training. There are currently forty-four staff employed directly within the Directorate. In addition to the Director of Public Health, there are two assistant directors of public health, four Public Health Specialists and staff working in smoking cessation services, Public Health Information and Resources, and partnerships. Any other staff directly managed by the Directorate are also included within the Directorate.
In addition there are two further groups of staff within the ambit of the Directorate. First, staff who are employed in PCT Directorates, other than the Directorate of Public Health, who are undertaking significant pieces of public health work and who therefore need to be engaged with the workings of the directorate, e.g. public health lead nurses. Second, staff of other agencies whose purpose reflects or complements the purpose and priorities of the Directorate, who are co-located with public health staff within the Directorate to ensure optimum interchange and coordination of effort, e.g. Food and Health team, healthy schools coordinator.
Objectives
The objectives relate to both PCTs’ organisational objectives and the emerging expectations of the public health function. It is expected that the Directorate of Public Health objectives will inform programme and individual objectives.
The objectives of the Directorate are to:
- Improve health and reduce health inequalities.
- Protect the health of the population.
- Assess the health and health care needs of the population and communicate these as appropriate.
- Establish and maintain partnerships with other organisations/groups, public and private, in order
to improve health and reduce health inequalities.
- Provide high quality public health expertise across a number of settings including other directorates of the PCT.
- Ensure adequate public health capacity and capability, including
- the maintenance of own skills and development
- training and development of others
- Provide public health support for quality and clinical governance systems and processes
within commissioned and provided services.
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