Coventry Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-2023

Coventry has been tackling health inequalities as a Marmot City since 2013.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2016-19 galvanised commitment to work in partnership around key priorities and clear benefits were realised through new partnership structures and collaborations with organisations that may not historically have recognised their role in contributing to health and wellbeing outcomes. Partnership is now in our DNA as a city.

However, we have recognised that although we have strong partnership working around specific priorities, we don’t always join up what we do and make the connections between different areas of work and we don’t always work as closely with our communities as we could. This means we miss opportunities to identify synergies and complementary activity and do not always get the best outcomes as a result.

To do this better we need to move to a ‘population health’ approach which takes a holistic view of everything that impacts on people’s health and wellbeing across the whole population, with an emphasis on reducing inequalities in health as well as improving health overall.