Coventry Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-2023

The following principles, which form part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Wellbeing Concordat, will underpin the way we work as Health and Wellbeing Board partners:

• Prioritising prevention: we will tackle the causes of health-related problems to reduce the impact of ill-health on people’s lives, their families and communities. We will seek to address the root causes of problems, listening to local people’s priorities and acting on their concerns.
• Strengthening communities: we will support strong and stable communities. We will listen to residents to understand what they want from the services we provide and encourage them, to lead change themselves where possible.
• Co-ordinating services: we will work together to design services which take account of the complexity of people’s lives and their overlapping health and social needs. We will focus on the best way to achieve good outcomes for people, reducing the number of interactions people have with our services and avoiding multiple interventions from different providers.
• Sharing responsibility: we value the distinct contributions of all organisations that are represented on the Health and Wellbeing Board. We will maintain partnerships between the public sector, voluntary and community sector, local businesses and residents, recognising that we share a responsibility to transform the health and wellbeing of our communities. We will pool resources, budgets and accountabilities where it will improve services for the public.