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Encouraging effective partnership working with the health sector

There are a number of steps you can take to encourage effective partnership working with health colleagues. Examples include:

Identify and highlight common aims and objectives.
Find out who your key contacts in the health sector are, such as children's leads in Strategic Health Authorities, children's leads in parent care trusts (PCTs), heads of midwifery/maternity services, children's leads within mental health trusts, local GPs and practice staff.
Be clear that, in working with health professional, you are not looking for great changes in structure or practice but an adaptation of approach that will promote integration, prevent duplication and ensure a more consistent approach for families.

Data sharing

Please click here to view a letter which was sent by the Sure Start unit in November 2002, clarifying current legislation on sharing basic personal information between NHS bodies and Sure Start partnerships.

We are working with partners to:

ensure that health issues are embraced within other policies, such as childcare and workforce strategies
ensure that issues that influence health are a priority in the development of integrated children's services
spread the learning about new ways of working from our programmes to others working in children's services.

The Priorities and planning framework set out the priorities for the NHS and social services over three years to 2006. Health inequalities and life chances for children were identified as priority areas for action.

The Children's centres implementation update no 5 offers further guidance on how to successfully engage health in the development and implementation of children's centres.