The Bedford Borough Council Health and Wellbeing Board is writing a strategy which sets out the vision for improving the health and wellbeing of people living in Bedford Borough. The strategy focuses on strengthening the “building blocks of health” which are the conditions that are necessary to live a long life in good health. They are responsible for around half of what makes us healthy.
The Health and Wellbeing Board consists of people from the Council, NHS, and social care. The job of the board is to make sure the right services are available for everyone to be healthy. We need to make the building blocks of health stronger to close the size of the differences in health and wellbeing experienced by different communities in Bedford Borough.
The five main blocks of health that we want to focus on strengthening for the 2024-27 Health and Wellbeing Strategy are:
- Inclusive employment
- Healthy communities
- Early years
- Sustainable built and natural environment
- Healthy homes
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