Year 4 of the Population Health Leadership Academy begins

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB has launched Year 4 of its Population Health Leadership Academy.

The initiative brings colleagues from primary, secondary and community care, alongside VCFSE leaders, to learn together over 12 months and improve population health while tackling health inequity across the region.

Having launched in 2022, by the end of the current programme more than 250 Population Health Fellows will have graduated as a Lancashire and South Cumbria Population Health Fellow. Among those enrolled this time around are ICB chief executive Aaron Cummins and director of primary care Peter Tinson, as well as East Lancashire Hospitals Trust medical director Julian Hobbs and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals finance director Craig Carter. 

Population health is an increasingly important focus for health and care systems, as organisations start to work together and with their communities to improve health and tackle health inequalities for the people they collectively serve. It offers real opportunity for positively impacting health outcomes and contributing to financial sustainability.

The Academy is a series of sessions teaching the importance of involvement and coproduction, and aimed at building a social movement, learning about inequity and social justice, and encouraging people to be part of a system that sees this work as foundational to real change.