Presentations from Nicky Denston, Business Development Manager at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, at the Sandwell Health Other Economic Forum (SHOES) on March 28 2014.

1. Dials and Levers
Improving health in Sandwell, the
West Midlands and beyond….

2. What is Dials and Levers?
Sandwell in 2020

3. Purpose
• Brought together key agencies
• Develop forward thinking proposals
• Improve the ways agencies work together
• Improve the efficiency, appropriateness and
responsiveness of services
• Sharing knowledge & best practice
• A stimulus to move things forward in a
coordinated & planned way

4. Project Group
• Police
• Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust
• Sandwell & West Birmingham CCG
• Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation
Trust
• Youth Parliament
• Sandwell Council departments

5. Dials (priorities)
1. Building on the good things
within Sandwell
2. Incentives
3. Investing in communities
4. Housing
5. Young people, employment &
opportunity
6. Knowledge Economy
7. Active Sandwell
8. Safer Sandwell
9. Using assets more effectively
10.Powerful Sandwell

6. What’s good about Sandwell?

7. Levers (actions)
Building on the good things within Sandwell
- Engaging young people in social enterprises
- Creating a “Dragons Den” style initiative
- Encouraging entrepreneurial spirit into new
business opportunities
Incentives
- Recognition Awards
- Loyalty Scheme (Timebank)
Investing in Communities
- The CCG proposes to use £4.2m of non recurrent
NHS funding on a locality basis to pump prime
developments in primary care

8. Levers (actions)
Housing
- Mixed housing economy
- Equity release scheme
- Lodger matching approach
Young people, employment & opportunity
- Apprenticeship & work experience targets
- Employee volunteer bank
- Intergenerational activities
- Expand Motiv8
Knowledge Economy
- Develop a scholarship fund
- Creation of an Sandwell Alumni

9. Active Sandwell
- Community health checks
- Health & wellbeing events
- Explore extending free
swimming
Safer Sandwell
- Twenty mile per hour Sandwell
- Car free development
- Home hazard identification
Using assets more effectively
- Social prescriptions
- Mobilise community assets
Levers (actions)
Powerful Sandwell
- Review Disaster Recovery Plans
- Reconfiguration of energy
services

10. The Engine
• Joint Policy & Research Unit
• Joint Occupational Health
Service
• Pooling of resources
• Joint Information Sharing
Protocol & hub
•Continuation of the Dials &
Levers Project Group