Joint health and wellbeing strategy 2025-28

The Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-28 sets out our vision, priorities, guiding principles, and approaches that we will take to improving health and wellbeing for our population. 

The linked action plan sets out the actions that all partners will take across North Somerset during the strategy timeline of 2025-28.

The vision of the strategy is: 

working together to ensure equality of opportunity for everyone in North Somerset to start, grow up, live, work, age and die well and to enjoy good wellbeing and health. 

The strategy is centred around five key approaches to improving health and wellbeing: 

• prevention - ensuring children have the best start in life and preventing health and wellbeing problems throughout life
• early intervention - intervening as early as possible to address any health and wellbeing needs in people’s lives
• holistic action and support - implementing person-centred action on all factors that influence people’s lives
• healthy and caring communities - empowering people and communities to be connected, healthy and resilient through strengths-based approaches, trauma-informed practice, and engagement and involvement
• tackling inequalities - prioritising action to ensure equal opportunity access to services, experience, and outcomes, to reduce inequalities between groups.

Across these approaches, we will address the following priority themes:

• mental health and wellbeing
• food, nutrition and oral health
• tobacco, alcohol and drug use
• being active
• core determinants of health
• healthy places and communities.

The strategy also highlights seven guiding principles that will underpin our partnership working across North Somerset: 

• partnership, collaboration, co-design and co-production
• a focus on tackling inequalities
• taking a place-based approach
• using data, intelligence and insight to drive decision-making
• connecting people and sharing and building power with communities and building on local strengths
• using trauma-informed and compassionate approaches to improving health and wellbeing
• being anti-racist and taking a pro-equity approach through all that we do.

For more information about the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-2028, please contact us via email.