Draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy Consultation
Brent Council wants to hear from you to understand if the Draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy meets your needs.
You can read the draft Strategy using the link below. An accessible easy to read version of the strategy is attached below in several documents. You can read the accessible version in the following order:
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 How did we write our Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
- Priority 1 Healthy Lives
- Priority 2 Healthy Places
- Priority 3 Staying Healthy Part 1
- Priority 3 Staying Healthy Part 2
- Priority 4 Healthy Ways of Working
- Priority 5 Understanding, listening and improving
If you would like to request a version in another language please email: corporatepolicy@brent.gov.uk
The aim of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy is to improve the health and wellbeing of the people living in Brent. This includes helping people to stay healthy and making sure they can access services if they need them.
This strategy is for the young and the old, and every age in between. It is for people from different backgrounds, with different lifestyles, for the healthy and those with long-term health conditions and disabilities. We want to hear from you all.
We have split the strategy into five priorities. These are:
Healthy Lives: I am able to make the healthy choice and live in a healthy way, for myself and the people I care for.
Healthy Places: Near me there are safe, clean places where I, and people I care for, can go to relax, exercise for free, meet with like-minded people, and where we can grow our own food.
Staying Healthy: I, and the people I care for, understand how to keep ourselves physically and mentally healthy, managing our health conditions using self-care first. We have access to good medical care when we need it.
Healthy ways of working: The health, care and wellbeing workforce will be happy and strong; and the health and wellbeing system will recover quickly from the impacts of the pandemic.
Understanding, listening and improving: I, and those I care for, can have our say and contribute to the way services are run; Brent Health and Wellbeing Board data are good quality and give a good picture of health inequalities.
The Brent Health and Wellbeing Board has a statutory duty to produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JWHS) for our local population, as set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Phases
Consultation Phase 2
Stage two of the consultation sought to understand stakeholder and key community groups' opinion of the interim emerging priorities, focused on the following questions:
- Have we interpreted what people told us in stage 1 correctly? Have we missed anything?
- Do the priorities make sense for you/those you care for/your client groups?
- If they are correct, what can we – services and communities – contribute to these priorities?
Consultation was through a variety of mechanisms, including specific workshops and sessions at other events. A digital survey was launched in June.
Participants agreed that the identified priorities were the correct ones, and that we have understood what we had heard in stage one of consultation correctly. They also thought we had correctly understood issues they had highlighted to us e.g. barriers, groups experiencing health inequalities. We heard many ideas for how people thought we – services and communities – could deliver these priorities. These have been captured within the draft strategy and include:
- Healthy lives – addressing barriers such as low income, providing educational information on healthy living in accessible and culturally relevant ways, improving access to resources and facilities to support people to live a healthy life, reducing the harms caused by unhealthy fast food outlets
- Healthy places – making existing spaces tidier, safer, and accessible to all (including the free outdoor gyms in parks), increasing the amount of usable green space – including community garden spaces, better facilities such as public toilets, including accessible toilets, improving the physical, social and cultural offer for all, particularly young people and people with a disability
- Staying healthy – more and better information and support (including advocacy) that is accessible to all (particularly those people with a learning disability), better engagement for those experiencing specific health conditions, better access to primary care and mental health services (especially for children and young people), prioritisation of prevention and early intervention services, improvement of services to support people to self-manage and self-care in their own homes
- Healthy workforces – support for the community and voluntary sector through a more joined up approach, a collaborative approach to addressing the back log
- Healthy systems – community voices must be the main feature within the JHWS and communities should be involved in solutions, Brent Health Matters is a successful model and we should build on this to develop further initiatives at a hyper local level, a commitment to working collaboratively across systems, increased focus on the marginalised / disadvantaged community groups, improving digital innovation but ensuring all are able to access services in an alternative way