Joint welcome from HEE and OHID with Dr Rebecca Wagstaff Deputy Director- Health & Wellbeing-Workforce Development Lead- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities; Head of School for Public Health, HEE NW.

An introduction to the North West Population Health & Prevention Network (NW PHPN) funded by HEE NW from Alison Farrar HEE, Public Health Workforce Lead, Clinical Advisory Team: an introduction to the webinar series and the role of the NWPHPN.

Jo Ward HEE, Webinar Curator and chair.

Professor Dame Hazel Genn UCL is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in the Faculty of Laws at UCL and Director of the UCL Centre for Access to Justice, which she founded in 2013.  She is currently UCL Vice President of External Engagement.  She is a leading empirical legal researcher and expert on access to civil and administrative justice.

Professor Dame Hazel Genn is unequivocal in her analysis, “Social welfare legal problems are significant underlying causes of illness and have a substantial impact on physical and mental health and the social determinants of health. These problems can be addressed and resolved through specialist free legal advice and assistance in healthcare.”

Anna Barnish Health Manager Wirral CAB Social Prescribing Scheme

Wirral CAB is an exemplar social prescribing scheme. They practice what they preach-partnership and collaboration-in order to address health inequalities and transform lives. Find out about how they harnessed NHS Estates CSR commitments to grow a wellbeing hub and simultaneously embraced the Ministry of Justice pledge to support this work.

2:15pm

Laura Arrowsmith Maternity Action and the Cheshire and Merseyside’s Women’s Health and Maternity Partnership (WHaM)

Laura Arrowsmith is a Senior Policy Officer at Maternity Action, the UK’s maternity rights charity dedicated to promoting, protecting and enhancing the rights of all pregnant women, new mothers and their families to employment, social security and health care. Laura joined Maternity Action towards the end of 2019 to work on their Health Justice Partnership project. The project has been looking at how the organisation could integrate their legal advice services into maternity services and reach more women who could benefit from specialist advice on maternity rights. Laura’s background is in policy and research and she has worked previously for NatCen Social Research and the charity RNID. The presentation will focus on a bespoke maternity project in Cheshire and Merseyside funded by WHaM in response to the first ever DfHSC women’s health enquiry published in December 2021.

Dr James Organ and Dr Jennifer Sigafoo Senior Lecturers in Law at the University of Liverpool, School of Law and Social Justice.

Making the case -how do you underline how and when legal inputs can address the wider determinants of health? Recent work has focused on access to advice for social welfare rights and clearly demonstrated the negative and reinforcing effects that a lack of access can have on individuals’ lives, communities and citizenship.