Health Improvement

Kingston Council provides advice and information about a variety of health issues and initiatives. These pages provide you with:

Advice about improving your own health and wellbeing;
Information on local services;
Details about the work the Royal Borough of Kingston, Kingston Primary Care Trust, local voluntary groups and others are doing to make being healthy easier.

You can find information by topic, or group along with local health service information.

Health issue by topic

Accidents and falls
Alcohol and drugs
Coping with very hot or cold weather
Emotional health and wellbeing
Healthy Eating and Food safety
Infectious disease
Medical conditions
Physical Activity
Screening
Sexual health
Stop smoking

Health issues for particular groups

Black and minority ethnic groups
Cambridge Road Estate/Norbiton
Homeless people
Older People
Young people

Local health services

In each section you will find:

Advice about improving your own health and wellbeing
Information on local services
Details about the work the Royal Borough of Kingston, Kingston Primary Care Trust, local voluntary groups and other partners are doing to make being healthy easier.

What Kingston Council and partners are doing

Kingston Council is committed to working to improve the health of people in Kingston in partnership with local health services and voluntary services. Kingston's Choosing Health action plan is the overarching plan for Kingston's Community Leadership Forum and related Partnership Boards in delivering the government's White Paper Choosing Health. It sets out actions required by all partner agencies that are necessary to improve the health of our local population and reduce health inequalities.

For some information on the state of Kingston's health see our document below on Kingston’s Health Profile and our other links for information about Choosing Health.

Our services are all being developed in line with guidance from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Public Health Information

From January 2003, the Government required Local Authorities to scrutinise Health Service provision in their area. The Royal Borough of Kingston set up a Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel to carry out this function. The Panel has been meeting regularly since November 2002.

In broad terms, the main aim of Health Scrutiny is to act as a lever to improve the health of local people in its widest sense. It is about looking at the whole health system, not just services provided, commissioned or managed by the NHS.

Joint Annual Public Health Reports

The Joint Annual Public Health Report 2008 has now been published. Please follow the link below to read the report.

The Joint Annual Public Health Report 2006 was published on 29 June 2007. The web based appendices are also available, please find the documents below.