Health inequality projects in Hastings worth £1.2m approved

A raft of projects designed to tackle health inequality in Hastings worth £1.2m was signed off by the council on Monday (August 8).
By The Newsroom
Published 11th Aug 2016, 11:48 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 23:32 BST

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Hastings Borough Council cabinet agreed to the Healthy Hastings and Rother Programme, funded by the NHS Hastings and Rother Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

The scheme includes a number of initiatives in a bid to improve some of the most deprived areas of Hastings, St Leonards and Bexhill.

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The council’s lead member for leisure Dawn Poole said: “The council has long held the position that good health is a key factor in determining the quality of people’s lives and that health inequality is a significant outcome of and contributor to poverty.

“Previous projects have provided an innovative approach to partnership working to address issues affecting the quality of life for our residents.

“I’m pleased that Cabinet have agreed to implement sustainable partnerships within existing community centres together with the CCG.

“As public sector budgets tighten its essential to work with partners to address issues of exclusion and inequality and develop and deliver these new Healthy Hastings & Rother projects in 2016/17.”

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Now in its second year, the 2016/17 programme will ‘focus resources on developing fewer but larger scale projects’, with three key areas: health and wellbeing centres, healthy homes – people, and healthy homes – places.

The £1.2m would be divided between the three areas, with money being used for grants, improving centres, helping people left homeless or in unsuitable homes when being discharged from hospital, and to tackle fuel poverty.

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