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Making Sheffield fairer and healthier
The Fair and Healthy Sheffield Plan, launched last week at The Sheffield Joint Health and Wellbeing Board, intends to close the unfair gaps in length and quality of life by prioritising improvements to the health and wellbeing of those who need it the most first. The plan highlights the need for ‘brave and compassionate leadership’, recognises that good health and wellbeing depends on many aspects of people’s lives and emphasises how important it is for people to know how they can be part of making the changes
that they want to see. Greg Fell, Director being on top of the include Sheffield The Sheffield City Goals of Public Health data we hold, keeping City Council, the show that fairness and Integrated it up to date, measuring NHS, Healthwatch, and health really Commissioning for and reporting back the University of matter to Sheffield Sheffield, said: “People on the changing Sheffield, Sheffield as a city and that the consistently tell me Sheffield picture over Hallam University, current situation is not how important good time is how we will the Voluntary and fair. Some people in health is to them and really make progress Community sector, Sheffield die younger we know that the unfair and keep on track. and South Yorkshire and have worse health gaps we have here It’s essential we get Police. Every member than others for many don’t have to exist. this right and that we is an equal partner as reasons including the We can do something review constantly impact of racism and about it. based on our learning everyone brings an discrimination, living “Everyone in the city and people’s feedback. important point of in poverty, not getting needs to do things “All of this will help us view. a good education, differently to make to create a different having low-paying and Sheffield fairer and future, and we must do The Fair and Healthy insecure jobs, living heathier. There’s plenty it together.” Sheffield Plan and in poor housing, the to do, working together The Sheffield Joint information about The accessibility of quality across sectors and with Health and Wellbeing Sheffield Joint Health food, the support from communities. Greater Board is made up of and Wellbeing Board family and friends, and fairer investment organisations from meetings and events what their local area in creating health across Sheffield, is at https://healthis like, and how easy it and wellbeing and working together to wellbeing.sheffield. is to access health and preventing illness is make Sheffield fairer social care. needed and of course, and healthier. These gov.uk
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