The Council Health and Wellbeing Board is developing its first Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and is keen to hear your views.
Local health and care organisations are coming together for the Board’s first formal engagement event in the Bath Guildhall on Tuesday 30th April 2013 (11am-1pm). The Board’s draft strategy will be presented for discussion and a period of wider consultation will be launched (running until 7th June 2013).
The Board is keen to hear feedback from any interested group, organisation, service user or local resident and a consultation leaflet will be available on its webpage (www.bathnes.gov.uk/health-wellbeing-board) from 30th April in order to welcome comments on the draft strategy.
Councillor Simon Allen, Chair of the Bath and North East Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board, said: “No one should underestimate our determination to make a difference. We want to improve the health of local people and ensure that everyone has a fairer chance of living well.
“The Health and Wellbeing Board positively welcomes people to help us by giving their views on how we may achieve this – either by coming along to our future public meetings, through joining in with the consultation on our webpage or writing to us.”
The finished strategy will be the overarching plan for improving health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities across Bath and North East Somerset. It outlines the Health and Wellbeing Board’s key areas of focus in the coming years around:
Helping people to stay healthy
- Reduced rates of childhood obesity
- Improved support for families with complex needs
- Reduced rates of alcohol misuse
- Create healthy and sustainable places
Improving the quality of people’s lives
- Improved support for people with long term conditions
- Reduced rates of mental ill-health
- Enhanced quality of life for people with dementia
- Improved services for older people which support and encourage independent living and dying well
Fairer life chances
- Improve skills, education and employment
- Reduce the health and wellbeing consequences of domestic violence
- Increase the resilience of people and communities including action on loneliness.
The Bath and North East Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board brings together Bath & North East Somerset Council, the local Clinical Commissioning Group and Healthwatch and aims to ensure joined up community care where it is most needed.
Bath and North East Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board meetings are held in public and anyone with an interest in local health and wellbeing issues is welcome to attend.
