Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2026 - 2031

The new Health and Wellbeing Strategy has been developed by a working group including a range of professionals from partner organisations, local residents and people with lived experience, and through public engagement and consultation. It sets out our vision ‘to reduce inequality, increase years of healthy life and promote improved mental and physical health and wellbeing for everyone in Cheshire West and Chester’. It is a joint Strategy between all Health and Wellbeing Board organisations and outlines the key work programmes that we can only achieve through working together.

All Board organisations have many existing plans and strategies in place to improve health and wellbeing. This Strategy therefore focusses on our joint priorities and commitments that we will collectively deliver within the next five years to improve health and wellbeing across the borough, rather than describing individual partner’s plans.

In 2022, Cheshire West and Chester joined the Cheshire and Merseyside Marmot Community. This means we have committed to a programme called ‘All Together Fairer’, which aims to action eight Marmot priorities to reduce unfair differences in health and wellbeing across the area. This Strategy sets out what different organisations like the NHS, the Council, emergency services, and voluntary and community (VCFSE) organisations will do over the next five years to deliver these eight priorities and help people of all ages live longer, healthier lives.