STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

n     Good quality Primary Care premises

n     Health promoting schools - Heywood prioritised

n     HAZ/PCG post for community health development

n     Attention to prescribing agenda

n     Good ‘achieving’ schools in the area

n     The HAZ

n     Media interest (local)

n     Interagency linkages

n     Improving access to hospital services due to reconfiguration at Fairfield and at Rochdale Infirmary

n     Lack of support for local people with disabilities

n     High Street CAB provision/HAZ funding ½ wte

n     Case Worker - Welfare rights

n     Robust small business organisation

n     Deprivation = poor health

n     Access issues via secondary care services (geographic)

n     Lack of ‘Focal Point’ (Primary Care/Health ‘Resource’ Centre

n     Community health care services?

n     Lack of dedicated local drug services

n     (Drugs a major issue)

n     Above average Long Term Limiting Illness?

n     High levels teenage conception

n     Mental health

n     High SMRs IHD, Cancer, Respiratory etc.

n     Lack of community based health promotion? (Lifestyle)

n     Inequity in access to secondary procedures (eg. CABGs)?

n     Low basic levels parenting skills?

n     Public Transport issues? (from estates to hospitals)

n     No focus Back O’Moss

n     Rising STDs

n     Lack of facilities for Young People

n     Musculoskeletal disease

n     Alcohol misuse

n     Carers support

n     Social isolation - older people

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

n     Health improvement via comprehensive regeneration

n     Major supermarket (Morrisons)

n     HAZ linkage

n     Linkage of health agenda into Heywood-On-Line (IT linkages/Information exchange)

n     Improved community participation in health

n     Media interest in health agenda

n     Development of parenting skills/sex education

n     Setting up of sports college (Siddall Moor)

n     Link to healthy living centres

n     Walk in centre?

n     Health impact assessment

n     Develop community services?

n     Focus on Back O’Moss

n     Therapeutic Intermediate facility?

n     Improvement in ‘outreach’ from secondary care?

n     Young peoples ‘outreach’ programme

n     Address disability/access issues

n     Link leisures provision to health

n     Failure to elicit community views properly

n     Divisiveness - is the NDC area going to divide a community?

n     Unrealistic expectations - ‘everything for all’

n     Lack of Community based action on health