Give your views in the Health and Well-being Strategy consultation

People are invited to tell us what you think about how we can work together to improve our health and well-being, and our health and care services in Shropshire. This current consultation is open until Sunday 29 November 2015.

The draft Health & Well-being Strategy outlines how health and care organisations in Shropshire are planning for the future. It describes how people in Shropshire can work together to make the county a happier and healthier place.

Particular focus is paid to three priorities:

• Health promotion and resilience: encouraging people to make good decisions at all stages of life, and making sure that the right support is available when needed.
• Promoting independence at home: planning support so that people are able to stay in a place that is familiar to them, and where they can have the assistance of their community to keep well.
• Promoting easy access and joined up care: making sure that people experience care that meets their needs, and that they have the right information at the right time to help themselves or to get support from others.

To put these priorities into action, and to improve how we help people to become resilient and remain independent, three key project areas have been suggested, these are:

• Healthy weight and diabetes care
• Carers
• Mental health

These topics would then become focus areas for development over the coming years.

This is just the beginning of developments, and there is still time to help shape and decide the future of health and well-being in the county. We want to hear from you.

Have your say on developments in Shropshire and help to shape the future for you, your family and friends.

To have your say, go to “Get Involved” on Shropshire Council’s website homepage, and the survey (click here) is there.

Karen Calder, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member for health, said:

‘It’s really important that Shropshire residents get to have their say on developments in our local area. Health and well-being is so key to our everyday life, yet sometimes we don’t think about our health until after we’ve become unwell or need help.

“We want to work with Shropshire people to plan for the future, and to make sure that people can support themselves to be as healthy and well as possible.

“This is just the beginning of the conversation, but we want everybody to have the opportunity to share their thoughts on health and well-being priorities for Shropshire.”

Find out more information here:

http://shropshire.gov.uk/news/2015/10/invite-to-share-views-on-health-priorities-for-shropshire-2/