Health, Social Care and Well Being Strategy
Background
From April 2003 Cardiff Council and Cardiff Local Health Board have had a statutory duty to formulate and implement a Health, Social Care and Well Being Strategy for Cardiff.
"Meeting the Challenge", the first Cardiff Health, Social Care and Well Being Strategy was grounded in a partnership approach to improving health and well being and made reducing health equalities that exist across the city an equal priority to providing effective and efficient health and social care services.
The Strategy identified a joint vision for the future shape of health and social care across the city, which responded directly to local needs and was developed in collaboration with partners and the community at large. This Strategy set out co-ordinated actions to improve health, which in turn will fundamentally change service provision for the residents of the City.
In Cardiff, the Health Alliance have had the responsibility of overseeing the development, implementation and monitoring of this strategy and associated plans on behalf of the statutory partners.
The next Health, Social Care and Well Being Strategy Cardiff - Working Towards a Healthy City, has now been developed and was published in April 2008. In developing the Strategy, the Alliance followed the Welsh Assembly Government guidance. The strategy was developed with the input of the Strategic Commissioning Group and Advisory Planning Groups and was subject to a 12 week consultation period and the development of a consultation document.