Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-29
The strategy sets out:
- a shared vision for the Health and Wellbeing Board 2025-2029
- shared commitments to develop how we work together to deliver our vision
- how the Health and Wellbeing Board will use its unique role and membership to lead and advocate for health and wellbeing locally through annual focus areas
Our Vision
Strategic Commitments
The 2025-29 Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy sets out five commitments to develop how the Health and Wellbeing Board makes decisions and works with partners over the next four years.
The commitments will be used as a lens to guide Board discussions and decisions. Any proposal requesting Board approval will need to show how it supports delivery of this strategy.
Attention to these five areas is not new. What is different about this strategy is:
- We have agreed focused actions to progress each of our five commitments. These actions are set out on the following pages and will ensure this strategy makes a difference.
- A refreshed accountability process has been developed to ensure we hold ourselves to account.
- Each year the Health and Wellbeing Board will produce an action plan setting out up to four Annual Focus Areas for the year ahead. These areas for collective action will be an opportunity to drive forward best practice with local partners and to deliver on strategy commitments. Focus areas will be selected each year in response to local data, insights and wider system priorities. The principles for selecting focus areas are set out later in this strategy.
5 Commitments to develop a Health and Wellbeing Board ways of working:
- Strengthening community involvement
- Building a programme of place-based working
- Doing more to reduce inequalities
- Shifting upstream with a focus on prevention
- Strengthening our use of data and insights in decision-making
The strategy can be viewed here: https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/health-strategies/
Annual Focus Areas
The Health and Wellbeing Board will have up to four focus areas each year to drive action. Focus areas for Year 1 (2025-26) are:
- Place-based working and Neighbourhood Health – work as a Board to develop a shared vision for place-based working and Neighbourhood Health in South Gloucestershire and support actions to implement this.
- Healthy Weight – sign up to the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ‘Why Weight?’ Healthy weight and pledge and support actions to implement it across South Gloucestershire.
- Housing and Wellbeing – work as a Board to develop a Housing and Wellbeing Strategy for South Gloucestershire and support actions to implement this.
- Children and Young People – work with partners to develop our integrated local approach for maternity and early years to support families and carers before and during pregnancy and with children up to the age of 5 years.