07 November 2023

West Northamptonshire Health and Wellbeing Board permitted a brand new Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy in September, which focuses on serving to residents to “Live Your Best Life”. This is a joint technique working with a wide range of companions together with well being, voluntary and neighborhood sector organisations, police and fireplace colleagues in addition to many extra.

The technique focuses on tackling well being inequalities all through West Northamptonshire by taking a look at “wider determinants”, that are exterior components that may have an effect on an individual’s well being and wellbeing.

Together, over the following 5 years we intention to realize the ten ambitions which can be embedded on the coronary heart of the technique, through West Northamptonshire’s 9 Local Area Partnerships (LAPS). LAPs permit us to take a look at areas from a extra native perspective, enabling us to establish and perceive the wants and challenges confronted by every of those 9 completely different areas and implement companies and help by way of organisations which can be particular to every particular person space.

The 10 ambitions are:

1. The greatest begin in life
2. Access to the very best obtainable training and studying
3. Opportunity to be match, nicely and unbiased.
4. Employment that retains you and your loved ones out of poverty
5. Good Housing in locations that are clear and inexperienced.
6. Safe in your houses and when out and about
7. Connected to family and friends
8. The likelihood of a recent begin when issues go improper.
9. Access to well being and social care once you want it.
10. Accepted and valued for who you might be

The technique units out how collectively, we’ll meet every of the ten ambitions by highlighting the place we are actually, what the inequalities are in addition to how we’re going to obtain enhancements.

I’m delighted to announce the approval of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy. This is our well being and wellbeing dedication to our residents for the following 5 years. These 10 ambitions are the place to begin for us as we take ahead and embed our personal Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy and will likely be key  in our mission to make sure the individuals of the West Northamptonshire are supported.Cllr Matt Golby, Chair of West Northants Health and Wellbeing Board and Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health at West Northamptonshire Council

You can view the technique on the WNC website.