Draft Barnet Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy consultation
Have your say on our Draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Barnet
What is a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy?
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies are required by law to be developed for most local authority areas. It sets out how the Health and Wellbeing Board will work in partnership to support all people who live, work and study in our borough to achieve better health and wellbeing.
Barnet Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) is a formal board consisting of members from:
- the council,
- NHS (including GPs, hospital and community provision), and
- the voluntary and community sectors (including Barnet Healthwatch).
The main aim of the HWBB is to understand what health and wellbeing looks like in Barnet now and in the future, and to identify how we can work together to support people to be in better health.
Meetings of the HWBB are open to the public and are often webcast. You can find out more information about the current membership and the HWBB meetings here.
The draft Barnet Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
The current Barnet Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy ends in 2025 and over the last six months we have been developing a new strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders. In particular we have worked with:
- residents, user groups and organisations to help us develop the long term priorities and short term goals for the draft strategy
- we have also reviewed current partner strategies, and the data we have on health and wellbeing.
The results of this work have been incorporated into the draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, which was presented and agreed – alongside the findings from the engagement – in January 2025.
The new strategy contains a vision, guiding principles and four long term priorities. These will run throughout the lifespan of the document. The long term priorities are underpinned, by shorter term goals and actions which will be reviewed every three years.
This version of the strategy does not try to include everything that impacts on people’s health and wellbeing. It prioritises where the Board has identified a local need, and where it has an ability at a borough level to change what we do. For areas not included in the strategy, HWBB members will also look to work with, and influence others to ensure that everything works to have a positive impact on health.
What we are asking you
Barnet HWBB has now agreed a draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
The focus on this last stage of engagement is to ensure that the draft strategy is clear, reflects the results of the development work so far, and has the right actions and measures of success in it.
In particular, we are seeking your views on:
- whether the long term priorities and short term goals for the strategy reflect the co-production and data work that was undertaken in 2024
- that the vision and guiding principles of the strategy are the right ones
- the actions and measures of success are achievable, and will achieve a positive impact on people’s health and wellbeing.
How to have your say
Please take the time to read the draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and then give us your views on our strategy by completing the online questionnaire.
If you require a paper copy of the draft strategy and questionnaire, or it to be produced in another format, please contact us via one of the following methods:
- email publichealth@barnet.gov.uk,
- telephone 020 8359 2433, or
- write to Barnet Health and Wellbeing Board c/o Public Health department, Fourth Floor, London Borough of Barnet, 2 Bristol Avenue, London, NW9 4EW.
What happens after the consultation closes?
Your input will be used to shape the final version of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy that will be presented to the Health and Wellbeing Board in May 2025.
