Living Well in Warwickshire - Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2020-25

The Warwickshire Health and Wellbeing Board drafted a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2020-2026, using findings from the most recent Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), a Covid-19 recovery survey and a health impact assessment (HIA). This consultation aimed to find out the views of statutory organisations, the community/ voluntary sector and Warwickshire residents, on the draft strategy

The majority of respondents supported the three ambitions: 

• Ambition 1: People will lead a healthy and independent life through encouraging people to adopt healthy lifestyles and behaviours – 93% agreed
• Ambition 2: People will be part of a strong community recognising the importance of education, employment, quality housing and leisure to provide good quality of life – 87% agreed
• Ambition 3: People will have access to effective and sustainable services through the development of accessible, responsive and high-quality services – 90% agreed

The majority of respondents also supported the Board’s priorities for the next two years:

• help people improve their mental health and wellbeing, particularly focusing on prevention and early intervention (69%)
• help children and young people have the best start in life (63%)
• reduce inequalities in health outcomes and the wider determinants of health (52%)

A number of respondents felt the strategy needed to better reflect the partnership approach to deliver.

Feedback from a focus group suggested that the need to work collaboratively with a wide range of diverse communities also needed to be included with the draft strategy.

• The draft strategy has been strengthened throughout to ensure a strong partnership presence that includes the voluntary and community sector (VCS).
• A wider set of indicators have been included to monitor the direction of travel in order to reflect the partnership approach.
• The strategy to reflect the ambition to work with all our communities and to ensure cultural competence in what we do has been amended.
• Ambition 3 has been strengthened to reflect the fact that we are seeking to develop accessible, responsive and high-quality services that are designed in a way that seeks to reduce inequalities in health.
• Following feedback that our ‘How will we know when we have got there’ section within the strategy on implementation and monitoring wasn’t clear enough, we have now strengthened this to emphasise that: 
• Each Health and Wellbeing Partnership (HWP) in Warwickshire will develop an implementation plan with clear performance measures based around the four components of the population health framework
• The HWP action plans will be tailored to meet the specific needs of each place and will routinely report to the HWB.
• Local HWPs will work with the HWB Executive Group to ensure wider determinants and access to services are addressed collectively at a local level whilst contributing to the overall vision for the system.
• We have also made it clearer that although we plan on reviewing our priorities after two years, as we are still yet to understand the full impact of the pandemic across all areas of health and wellbeing it may be necessary to review our priorities sooner.

All supporting documents of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy can be found at: https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/healthandwellbeingstrategy