Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Herefordshire - Have Your Say!

News - 15 October 2022

Herefordshire’s Health and Wellbeing Board is working on a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy that identifies priorities for local action.

The Health and Wellbeing Board has met with a range of professionals and community partners. Together, they have looked at the data to identify where they think they can make the biggest difference.

As they continue to develop the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, they want to gather views on which of the priorities are most important to residents. They are urging people in Herefordshire to complete a questionnaire to help ensure that they are focusing on the right issues. 

While the population of Herefordshire experience good health and wellbeing overall, we know that this is not shared by everyone. As people live longer with more complex health conditions, combined with the impact of Covid-19 and ongoing financial challenges, we must find new ways of helping people live healthy lives. – Herefordshire Health and Wellbeing Board

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