What does 2023 look like?

The Public Health Team has identified a list of priorities for its work programme in 2023.

• Implementation of learning from COVID-19 pandemic
• Robust incident and outbreak management 
• Infection control team
• Childhood immunisation
• Winter Preparation
• Sexual and reproductive health and HIV
• Improving mental wellbeing and prevent distress.
• Preventing self-harm and suicides
• Transforming local services to improve health outcomes for Children, Young People and Families
• Public Health Strategic Leadership through Education
• Provide strategic leadership for Behavioral Insight across Liverpool
• Long term conditions
• 0-19 Service / CYP Transformation
• Weight Management transformation
• Integrated Community Specialist Substance Misuse Service transformation
• Liverpool Marmot Partnership Group
• World Health Organization European Healthy Cities Network
• Safer Gambling​
• Health Literacy​
• Health in all Policies
• Liverpool Public Health Research & Development Plan

• Develop a 0-19 Programme that promotes positive health, tackles inequalities, and provides opportunities for children, young people, and families to thrive and grow and enjoy the best possible start in life.​
• Deliver a comprehensive action plan to support recovery of the childhood immunisations programme, reduce inequalities and increase uptake.
• Continue to deliver evidence-based interventions across the life course, focusing on improving local mental wellbeing and tackling low level mental health needs, self-harm/ suicide risks and building resilience in our community.​
• Work, with partners, to deliver a long-term conditions programme to delay and prevent multimorbidity, as well as ameliorating its effects. This means a city-wide life course focus on healthy ageing (which does not start at 65 years, but even before birth) aimed at reducing the number of healthy life years lost to multimorbidity. ​
• Review progress of Liverpool Marmot Partnership Group against Marmot principles and continue to develop Marmot action plan. ​
• Work with partners to develop a Safer gambling strategy for Liverpool.
• Work with environmental health and partners to deliver action plans to improve air quality and knowledge around air quality.
• Deliver training around Health equality impact assessments to embed health in all policy principles across Liverpool City Council and partners.
• Deliver  0-19 Service / CYP , weight management and Integrated Community Specialist Substance Misuse Service  transformation commissioning plans.