Community Wealth Building
What is Community Wealth Building and how will it benefit the people of Tayside?
Community wealth building is an approach that keeps money and resources within local communities. Anchor organisations can drive community wealth building, which in turn supports Scotland’s ambition to deliver a wellbeing economy.
Community Wealth Building has the potential to create jobs, reduce supply chains and strengthen local and regional economies. It redirects wealth back into the local economy so that workers, residents and consumers benefit from the economic activity happening in their communities.
It helps to keep money within local communities. This means better paid, more secure jobs and more locally rooted, ‘generative’ businesses that share the wealth they create with workers, consumers and communities.
Why should we as the NHS, adopt a CWB approach?
Widening health inequalities and growing pressures on health care services has prompted discussions about the role of the NHS in preventing ill health and its broader influence in local communities.
What are health inequalities and what causes them?
The overall aim for Public Health Scotland is for a Scotland where everybody thrives, and a Scotland where life expectancy, and the difference in life expectancy between our poorest and wealthiest areas, gets smaller.
This is also known as tackling health inequalities and will be achieved by preventing disease, prolonging years of healthy life, and promoting health and wellbeing.
Causes of poor health and inequality are brought about by factors outwith the control of the NHS, however the NHS deals with the effects of this. Access to health care is important but we know that good health is shaped by the conditions in which people live, learn, work and age.
By adopting a Community Wealth Building approach, NHS Tayside aims to improve these conditions and by doing this, reduce inequalities and transform the lives of our children, families and people living in Angus, Dundee, and Perth & Kinross.
NHS Tayside approach to Community Wealth Building
Community Wealth Building is a way for NHS Tayside as an Anchor to play an active role in supporting partner organisations and communities to address the wider determinants of health, by keeping more money and resources in Tayside.
NHS Tayside has developed an Anchor Strategy to build upon the work already undertaken and identify the key actions required to achieve this ambition in our Board’s pledge to tackle health inequalities and improve the lives of people in the communities it serves.
NHS Tayside Anchor Strategy
Read more about what we are doing as an Anchor institution to contribute to Community Wealth Building in Tayside.
Community wealth building is an approach that keeps money and resources within local communities. Anchor organisations can drive community wealth building, which in turn supports Scotland’s ambition to deliver a wellbeing economy.
Community Wealth Building has the potential to create jobs, reduce supply chains and strengthen local and regional economies. It redirects wealth back into the local economy so that workers, residents and consumers benefit from the economic activity happening in their communities.
It helps to keep money within local communities. This means better paid, more secure jobs and more locally rooted, ‘generative’ businesses that share the wealth they create with workers, consumers and communities.
Why should we as the NHS, adopt a CWB approach?
Widening health inequalities and growing pressures on health care services has prompted discussions about the role of the NHS in preventing ill health and its broader influence in local communities.
What are health inequalities and what causes them?
The overall aim for Public Health Scotland is for a Scotland where everybody thrives, and a Scotland where life expectancy, and the difference in life expectancy between our poorest and wealthiest areas, gets smaller.
This is also known as tackling health inequalities and will be achieved by preventing disease, prolonging years of healthy life, and promoting health and wellbeing.
Causes of poor health and inequality are brought about by factors outwith the control of the NHS, however the NHS deals with the effects of this. Access to health care is important but we know that good health is shaped by the conditions in which people live, learn, work and age.
By adopting a Community Wealth Building approach, NHS Tayside aims to improve these conditions and by doing this, reduce inequalities and transform the lives of our children, families and people living in Angus, Dundee, and Perth & Kinross.
NHS Tayside approach to Community Wealth Building
Community Wealth Building is a way for NHS Tayside as an Anchor to play an active role in supporting partner organisations and communities to address the wider determinants of health, by keeping more money and resources in Tayside.
NHS Tayside has developed an Anchor Strategy to build upon the work already undertaken and identify the key actions required to achieve this ambition in our Board’s pledge to tackle health inequalities and improve the lives of people in the communities it serves.
NHS Tayside Anchor Strategy
Read more about what we are doing as an Anchor institution to contribute to Community Wealth Building in Tayside.