The focus of the Healthy City Partnership is to create a city where everyone can be supported to make healthy life and lifestyle choices - a city that provides excellent health and social care services for all who need them. Everyone in Sunderland will have the opportunity to live long, healthy, happy and independent lives.
Aims and priorities
We will further improve the service by opening longer hours and integrating mental health services into the treatment of alcohol-related problems. We are helping GP’s identify alcohol-related liver disease with a new service that should result in more people being screened and given help to deal with their alcohol misuse. Hospital staff will receive more training and we will develop better communication with homelessness services.
We are working with the probation service to tackle alcohol-related violence and other crime.
We have strengthened treatment services in the community with a range of interventions described in Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers. These include provisions for screening and brief interventions and assisted community detoxification. There are now consistently over 800 individuals a year accessing structured treatment in Sunderland.
Health and Wellbeing
Find out more about the city's Health and Wellbeing Strategy in the attached presentations.
Background to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Health and Wellbeing Strategy Timeline and Enagagement Windows
Health and Wellbeing Strategy Development - Task Groups
Health and Wellbeing Board, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Health and Wellbeing Strategy
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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
The JSNA pulls together all information available on the needs of the Sunderland population in a single, ongoing process (‘hard’ data i.e. statistics; and ‘soft data’ i.e. the views of local people), and analyse them in detail. Click on profiles below.
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