Date: 12 May 2010

Venue: Belfast City Hall

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Community planning is an opportunity to ensure health improvement and health equity is embedded within local government actions. This lecture examined tools that will enhance organisations' capacity to deliver on this agenda, and also provided practical examples of how health outcomes have been integrated into community planning.

Councillor Stephen Nicholl (0.27MB),  from Antrim Borough Council gave his view on the opportunities and challenges that introducing community planning will bring.

Della Thomas (0.23MB), NHS Health Scotland, outlined the health outcomes of community planning in Scotland

Beverlea Frowen (0.76MB), Welsh Local Government Association, outlined her experiences of integrating health into community planning

Sharon McNicholl (0.26MB), Belfast City Council, presented preparations for community planning in Belfast