Review of Salford’s Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
What is the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy?
It is information put together by Salford City Council and the NHS Salford Clinical
Commissioning Group.
It talks about ways to support Salford people’s health and wellbeing needs. This is so that
Salford people have happier, healthier lives.
Salford Health and Wellbeing Board uses the information to do things to make things
better for local people.
The Strategy is there to improve the health and wellbeing of the people of Salford
The Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy now needs to be reviewed because:
• it was developed in 2012 – 2013
• people’s health and wellbeing has changed since then
• the health care system has also changed ( we need to link up with what else is going
on across Greater Manchester, for example)
• there have been big cuts to local public budgets
• we have learned from what has happened over the last 3 years and might want to
improve the Strategy
Salford’s existing Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy aims to:
o Make people in Salford happier and healthier.
o Make sure that everyone has the same levels of good health
o Find ways for organizations like the council and the NHS to work together in
ways that make things better for Salford people.
It believes that
o Prevention is better than cure
o Finding ways to help people take control over their own lives
Makes their lives better.
Makes the places they live better
Helps people make better choices about how they live their lives
The strategy hopes to do things which mean that:
 People in Salford live as long as people who live in
other parts of the UK. At the moment people in
Salford die younger than people who live in other
places.
 People are happier and healthier throughout their
lives.
 Everyone in Salford gets happier and healthier and that how happy and healthy you
does not change depending on where in Salford you live.
 Find ways for organizations like the council and the NHS to work together in ways
that make things better for Salford people.
The Strategy wants to make sure that we work in the following ways:
• Valuing the assets (the skills, experience, knowledge and resources) the people of
Salford bring
Everyone has things that they are good at or know a lot about that.
• Supporting strong and vibrant neighbourhoods that promote health and wellbeing
Places in salford being safe, friendly and having lots to do means people who live
there are happier and healthier.
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• Health and wellbeing will be everyone’s responsibility
It is part of everybody’s job to help people be happier and healthier.
• Partnership and joined up ways of working
Organisations like the council and the NHS finding ways of working together.
• Prevention and early intervention throughout life
Working in ways to help people not get poorly in the first places and if they do
that helps them right at the start.
• Quality, Innovation and Evidence-based
All services should be good enough to do what they are supposed to do, should
try new ways of doing things so they get better and should make sure they know what
they are going to do will work because it has been tried before.
QUESTION: Does this seem a good way to make the things the strategy says should
happen, happen. ?
The Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy thinks these 3 things are the most important
things to make happen:
START WELL – making sure that all babies and children get a good start in
life.
There are 3 things they want to happen:
• Children at Primary school (aged 5 – 11) are a healthy weight – not
too fat or too thin.
• More babies are breastfed.
• Fewer teenagers get pregnant.
LIVE WELL – Salford people choose to live healthy lives. The places they
live make this easy to do by being great places to live.
There are 3 things they want to happen:
• If people have been victims of a crime and need some extra help they should get the
help they need.
• People are drinking less alcohol
• Individual communities have ways to make sure the people who live there can be
happier and healthier and can deal with things that go wrong.
AGE WELL – Salford people can use services to help them be healthy in the
right way.
There are 3 things they want to happen:
• People can get health checks at certain times in their lives.
• People feel they have the right support to look after themselves.
• Carers – who look after someone because they love or like them, have good lives.
QUESTION: Are these still the most important things to do something about? (Are these
things as important as they were 3 years ago?)
QUESTION: Is there anything else that you think is more important to do something
about?
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
• Responses will be fed back to the Health and Wellbeing Board
• A refreshed strategy will be prepared in autumn 2015
• We will consult stakeholders on the draft new Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy in
late 2015
The final version of new Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy will be published in spring
2016.