Health and wellbeing strategy 2024-2030
Consultation has concluded
This consultation has now closed. Read about the outcomes on the project's 'You said, we did' page.
What do we want to know?
Tell us what you think about the draft Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024-2030. We want to hear your views on the principles and priorities we have set out in the strategy to support people’s health and wellbeing across the county.
What is the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and what does it mean for you?
The Health and Wellbeing Strategy is the primary strategy for health and wellbeing in Oxfordshire. It sets out how we will improve health and wellbeing for local people. The strategy is a statutory duty of the Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board.
In developing this strategy we engaged with over 1000 residents to hear what helps them to stay healthy and well. You can read more about what they told us in the report on findings from community groups and Healthwatch Oxfordshire's report on what local people want. This feedback has been used to develop the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy, now we want to hear what you think of it.
Lots has changed since the Health and Wellbeing Board’s last strategy in 2019, including Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis. We know that people’s lives have changed, and so our approach must change too.
What is the Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board?
The Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board is a group of local councils and NHS organisations. Healthwatch Oxfordshire is also on the Board as an independent member.
What is the Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Strategy?
The Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Strategy sets out how we, the members of the Health and Wellbeing Board, will help Oxfordshire’s residents stay healthy, well, and cared for. It says what we’re going to focus on between 2024 and 2030 (our vision and priorities).
The strategy focuses on health and wellbeing in a broad sense. It focuses on the things people need to stay healthy and well such as housing, employment, a good standard of living, and a healthy living environment. When we get this right, it reduces the need for services, like GPs and hospitals. Access to, and provision of medical care, is covered in two separate strategies – the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board Primary Care Strategy (currently being developed) and the NHS Joint Forward Plan.
The strategy outlines priorities (summarised in the image below) that we will work together on to make a difference.
Have your say
Please read the draft strategy (available under ‘Consultation documents’) which includes our action plan and fill in our online survey by clicking the ‘TAKE SURVEY’ button below. The survey will close on 12 November 2023.
This is a comprehensive survey which asks for feedback on all areas of the draft strategy. You can choose which sections to fill in, but to complete the survey may take up to twenty minutes. If you have, or register for, an account you can start the survey now and come back to it later.
Your responses will help highlight any changes that may need to be made to the strategy before it is formally adopted by the Health and Wellbeing Board in 2024.
