Healthier lives for all

Our vision of Healthier lives for all in 2021

Our Vision in 2021 is that agencies in Suffolk Coastal work more effectively together so that everyone in the district has the opportunity to live a healthier lifestyle and living in a rural area is not a barrier to achieving that healthy lifestyle.

People take a greater responsibility for their own health, and effort is focused to improve individual responsibly for health includes our young people – not just through schools but also through the network of partnerships and organisations available to them as well as through parents.

The incidences of poverty have reduced in the area and all of our residents live in a healthy, inclusive community and have the opportunity to live in a decent home.  Socially inclusive, sustainable, thriving and supportive communities are recognised as vital not least in our isolated rural areas.

Long term planning for health is shaped by opportunities and threats from environmental changes, including climate change and measures have been taken to address fuel poverty.

Priority Outcomes for the LSP

• Agencies work more effectively together to ensure everyone has a decent home environment to live in which enables them to be as healthy as possible.
• Living in a rural area presents opportunities, not barriers, to accessing all services, including health and social care.
• People have the information, and where necessary the support, to take responsibility for their own health.
• Vulnerable people, including those with mental health problems, are supported to live in and be part of a healthy, inclusive community.

A working group has been formed to oversee delivery of an action plan for 2010/11 to deliver these outcomes.

Healthier Lives for all working group:

• NHS Suffolk
• East Suffolk MIND
• Age Concern Suffolk
• Suffolk County Council
• Suffolk Sport
• Stepping Out in Suffolk
• Suffolk Coastal District Council

To see the annual performance report showing our progress towards delivering our outcomes for this key priority, please click Healthier Lives for All Progress Report 2010/11 

For more information about healthy living. For further details about Healthier Lives for All, please contact Jeptepkeny Ronoh, by email or call 01473 260057.