Contact us
Mark Patterson
Interim Associate Director of Public Health
Who we are
Department of Health South West currently supports the
sub national coordination of obesity related commissioning, delivery, and professional networking within the South West.
We do this by
- Encouraging the sharing of good practice and effective partnership working.
- Working with our regional partners to influence policy and practice that has an impact on food, physical activity and obesity.
- Ensuring policy guidance and initiatives being developed at a national level relevant to healthy weight are communicated and implemented fully within the South West localities.
What we do
Strengthening delivery and supporting localism
We're strengthening delivery by:
- Coordinating number of networks that bring together partners from across the region to share information and best practice, reduce duplication, and encourage joint commissioning.
- Joining up with key regional partners to champion best practice across the following agendas
- Commissioning
- Child Health
- Community Health
- Strategic Transport and Planning
- Adult Social Care
- GP Commissioning Groups.
- Promoting Change4Life through sub-national networks.
- Maintaining obesity-related activity locally during the transition to Public Health England.
