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Health in Cambridgeshire

Welcome to NHS Cambridgeshire's Public Health web pages.

The local Public Health Department covers the following key areas of work:

Health improvement: Advising on factors which determine health such as education,
housing, employment, family/community issues, lifestyles, surveillance and monitoring of
specific diseases and risk factors, screening. Commissioning and co-ordinating public health
programmes, such as those for smoking cessation and tobacco control, obesity and sexual health.

Obesity Strategy - click here.
Building Communities that are Healthy and Well - click here.
Long-term conditions - click here.

Health protection: Working with the local branch of the Health Protection Agency, District
Environmental Health Services and other partner agencies on issues relating to
communicable diseases, chemicals and poisons, radiation, emergency response,environmental health hazards.

Health needs assessment: Providing statistics and analysis on a range of public health topics. Working with local authorities to carry out Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and with health service commissioners to carry out health needs assessments for specific service areas.

Service improvement: Providing advice on clinical effectiveness, efficiency, service planning, service evaluation, health equity audit and clinical prioritisation.

Health inequalities: Working to reduce differences in the health of people from different parts of society. Click here to access the Health Inequalities Strategy for Cambridgeshire.

NHS Cambridgeshire - Inequalities Summary is based on data provided by ERPHO; it compares major health indicators within our PCT and includes Directly Age Standardised Rates (DSRs) for (cllick here to access the document):

All age, all cause mortality.
All cause mortality under 75.
Mortality from causes amenable to health care: smoking attributable mortality; cancer mortality (under 75); mortality from circulatory disease under 75; life expectancy.

Corporate responsibilities: the Director of Public Health is an Executive Director of NHS Cambridgeshire and a Director of Cambridgeshire County Council.

Click here to jump to the web page that will link you to a range of Public Health documents:

Annual Public Health Report: The Report, which is published jointly by NHS Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire County Council reflects a number of pieces of work that have been,carried out to assess local health and care needs. It provides up to date public health statistics, makes recommendations to improve the health of local people, and describes progress against these recommendations. Click here to access the most recent report.

NHS Cambridgeshire is committed to continuing local partnership work, involving the County, District and City Councils, other local agencies and communities.

Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs)

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is a summary of needs assessment work carried out jointly by NHS Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire County Council. It provides an overview of population health and well-being needs in Cambridgeshire.

We have now established a separate JSNA specific website which displays all the JSNA information in a user-friendly format. To access the JSNA website, click here

Local Authority Health Profiles: The profiles use key health indicators to capture a picture of the nation's health down to local level, providing areas across England with valuable information to improve their population's health - select each locality area to access its profile.

APHO National Health Profiles for 2011 for:

Other Public Health Documents and Strategies: Other documents and strategies produced by the NHS Cambs Public Health Team, for example the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Oral Health Strategy 2009 - click here, and the End of Life Health Needs Assessment 2009 - click here.

Supporting document for Stakeholder Questionnaire – Public Health Functions Transfer

Public Health functions and responsibilities will be transferring from NHS Cambridgeshire to the County Council on 1 April 2013 under the Health and Social Care Bill. This will require new models for public health in the county to be developed – and there are plans to operate and test this during the ‘shadow’ year of 2012/13. A brief outline of current public health functions delivered through NHS Cambridgeshire is available here