Draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2021-2025

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Consultation has concluded

Overview

The Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) is a partnership board consisting of members from the local authority, NHS and the voluntary and community sectors. The main aim of the HWBB is to promote greater partnership and integration of services across NHS, public health, local government and voluntary and community sector organisations. You can find out more information about the current membership and the HWBB meetings here. One of the tasks of the HWBB is to produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing strategy based on its population’s needs.

The Draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2021-25 is our vision

Overview

The Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) is a partnership board consisting of members from the local authority, NHS and the voluntary and community sectors. The main aim of the HWBB is to promote greater partnership and integration of services across NHS, public health, local government and voluntary and community sector organisations. You can find out more information about the current membership and the HWBB meetings here. One of the tasks of the HWBB is to produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing strategy based on its population’s needs.

The Draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2021-25 is our vision for health in Barnet and the steps we will take to achieve our aims. It’s important to us that we gather your views on the draft strategy to ensure that our plan for the next four years takes your needs and priorities into account. The strategy was developed through engaging with partners, HWBB members and residents through engagement activities conducted in 2019.

Our vision is to make Barnet the London Borough of Health. A healthy borough makes healthy people. It is where the environment around us supports and promotes our health and wellbeing. In a healthy borough, everyone has access to a good education and can experience good and secure housing and employment. High quality health and social care is available for anyone when they need it. A healthy borough reaches out to the most vulnerable, giving everyone opportunities to thrive. With healthier and happier residents, communities are strengthened to support each other, and the local culture and economy flourishes.

For the next four years, the Barnet Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) will focus on three key areas in order to drive improvements in health and wellbeing in the borough. These key areas are:

  1. Creating a healthier place and resilient communities
  2. Starting, living and ageing well
  3. Ensuring delivery of coordinated holistic care, when we need it

For more information please read our summary consultation document and the full strategy here.

What we are seeking your views on

We are keen to give everyone who lives, works and studies in Barnet the opportunity to have their say on our strategy. In particular, we are seeking your views on:

  • Our vision for health and wellbeing in Barnet
  • The guiding principles of our strategy
  • The Key Areas we would like to focus on for the next four years

How to have your say

Please take the time to read our consultation document and then give us your views on our strategy by completing the online questionnaire.

If you require a paper copy of the consultation document and questionnaire, or another format, please email: HealthandWellbeingStrategy@barnet.gov.uk or telephone 0208 359 2314

Your input will be used by the council to shape the final version of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy that will be presented to the Health and Wellbeing Board in April 2021.

Consultation has concluded

  • We asked, you said, we did

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    We asked

    We asked for your views on our draft Barnet Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy: 2021-2025. Specifically, we asked for your views on:

    • Our vision for health and wellbeing in Barnet
    • The guiding principles of our strategy
    • The Key Areas we would like to focus on for the next four years

    You said

    We received 72 responses to the consultation questionnaire. The feedback from the consultation was positive with the majority of respondents in agreement with the proposed vision, guiding principles and key areas.

    Four fifths (79%) of respondents agreed with our vision for health and wellbeing (39% strongly agree and 40% tend to agree). The majority of respondents agreed with the guiding principles (between 72% and 88%).

    The majority of respondents agree with the key areas (between 91% and 85%).The highest level of agreement was for creating a healthier places and resilient communities which 91% of respondents agreed with (53% strongly agreed and 38% tend to agree). The second highest agreement was for starting, living and ageing well which 89% of respondents agreed with (62% strongly and 27% tend to agree). This was the highest strongly agree of the three key areas. Ensuring delivery of coordinated holistic care when we need it received the lowest level of agreement with 85% agreeing (49% strongly agree and 36% tend to agree).

    The full report of the consultation findings is available here.

    We did

    From the consultation there were some suggestions on changes to the strategy document which produced a series of recommendations from the findings. These recommendations have been included in the drafting of the strategy.

    The final version of the Barnet Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy was approved by the Health and Wellbeing Board on the 15 July 2021. The strategy document is available here.

    We would like to thank everyone who responded and engaged with the process. During the implementation process, there will be further opportunity to help us deliver the Strategy together.