Wandworth Local Health and Care Plan - October 2019

44 So what? It’s important for all partners involved in implementing the health and care plan to demonstrate how feedback from local people has shaped the final plan. Health and care partners have considered the themes from the feedback provided to inform the final version of the health and care plan. The following changes have been made to the plan in response to the feedback received: You said We did Start Well Greater provision of emotional wellbeing services for children in schools and support for parents - services in the wider community are currently not easy to access with long waits. Education wellbeing practitioners are now in place in some schools in Wandsworth and further teams will be rolled out in 2020. Some felt children and young people should be involved in the wider group and community rather than doing healthy activities in isolation. We have committed to work with leisure and environment partners to encourage more use of open spaces, playgrounds and sporting activities Supporting healthy weights for children and incentivise healthy eating Health Visiting Team and Children’s Centres promoting healthy weaning and healthy diet. Family based weight management interventions appropriately focused towards early years and children in primary school Involve young people and schools in conversations about risky behaviours – in particular, gang culture This will be central to our approach as we develop our plans Live Well Easy and quick access to mental health services was highlighted as important by many We are investing in talking therapies to bring down waiting times Mental health and drug and alcohol services working together We are running wellbeing workshops within substance misuse services for people who are currently engaged in work around abstinence. Closer links between the mental health and drug and alcohol services means that we are now often able to see people for treatment whilst they are engaged in ongoing maintenance/ abstinence work which helps early intervention in mental health problems that may be a trigger alcohol/substance misuse. Easy access to people with expertise to help, advise and provide information on diabetes, including prevention and self-management to keep well We will provide extra capacity at evening and weekends for structured education programmes to improve uptake. An exploration of barriers to accessing diabetes self-management services We will carry out insight work in 2020 to understand what these barriers might be