Health, wellbeing and inclusion services
Welcome to the health, wellbeing and inclusion division.
The division includes the following services:
- Children’s community services – Derbyshire Family Health Service
- Integrated sexual health services
- DCHS General Practitioner services
- Health Psychology, including diabetes education and the tier 3 weight management service
- Oral health promotion (children and adult care)
Many of our divisional services are public health focused and support people to get the right care in the right place.
Children’s community services are commissioned by Derbyshire County Council and includes health visiting, intensive health visiting programme, school nursing, infant feeding team, oral health promotion, children’s continence team, along with our NHS England commissioned school age immunisation service.
Integrated sexual health services are commissioned by Derbyshire County and Derby City Councils and includes sexual health promotion and outreach work. Alongside the integrated sexual health services that run from the two main hubs at Wheatbridge Health Village in Chesterfield and Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby, we have several local clinics across Derbyshire and Derby City.
Our Health Psychology department is home to a range of psychologically informed services. These include Diabetes Structured Education, Tier 3 Specialist Weight Management, Specialist Health Psychology and the Public Health Psychological Insights team. Members of our team also work in collaborative roles in different areas across DCHS and the wider integrated care system. We offer psychological thinking and approaches to help develop support and services and to contribute to organisational wellbeing and transformation.
We have four DCHS General Practices in our GP services; Creswell & Langwith Medical Centres, Castle Street Medical Centre in Bolsover, Ripley Medical Centre, and St Lawrence Road in North Wingfield.
Within the division we also have a marketing and communications team, and an information/ analytical team, that work with our different services to support with patient and staff engagement, and provision of data to help us understand how our services are meeting the needs of our local people.
HWI marketing and communications
We also have our own divisional marketing and communications team.
With a focus on public health messages and behavioural change, they work directly with the division services, stakeholders, and commissioners to develop, deliver, and evaluate annual marketing and communications strategies, maintain service websites and social media channels, as well as supporting service development projects, campaigns, and brand awareness.
Our operational plan provides an overview of the divisional priorities over each financial year:
