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Creating Healthier Communities - a resource pack for local partnerships

This is a practical guide which seeks to help drive forward local health improvement and tackle health inequalities. It is aimed at those with an interest in this agenda, in particular Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and other NHS bodies, Neighbourhood Partnerships, and Local Strategic Partnerships. There is a real focus and commitment from the Government on improving health and tackling health inequalities which has been reflected in the Public Health White Paper Choosing Health and through national Public Service Agreements (PSA) targets on health. This is clearly a challenging agenda and will require effective partnership working at the national level to front line staff and communities. This resource pack aims to support this agenda by providing information and suggestions on how to address the complex issues surrounding poor health and health inequalities, with a particular emphasis on the need to engage in partnership working.