What Matters in Denbighshire?
’Healthy Denbighshire’ builds upon the great work started in the first strategy covering 2005-2008. Further emphasis is now placed on partnership working, joint commissioning and collaboration to deliver better services and to support individuals and communities to improve their own health and well-being. This compliments the Community Services Framework which is about bringing services to people either in their own homes or close to their own homes in a range of community based settings.
Our ‘Making A Difference’ Achievements Report will let you know just what difference the first strategy has made.
How do we decide what matters in Denbighshire?
Deciding what matters in 2008-2011 is about setting priorities. With your help we have identified eight priority ‘Themes’.
These ‘Themes’ affect all of us including children, young people and older people, those people with learning disabilities, mental health needs, physical and sensory impairments; those affected by poverty or social exclusion and carers.
| 1. | Reducing Poverty/Improving Social Inclusion |
| 2. | Our Environment |
| 3. | Positive Lifestyles |
| 4. | Early Intervention and Crisis Support |
| 5. | Changing Needs/Responsive Services |
| 6. | Longer Term Needs |
| 7. | Protecting and Safeguarding |
| 8. | Right Services in the Right Place |
These overlapping priority ‘Themes’ are wide ranging because our health, social care and well-being are affected by lots of influences such as where we live, work and learn; our incomes and lifestyle; our ethnic group and identity; our relationships with family and friends and our access to services and facilities.
We came to decisions about what matters in Denbighshire by two routes:
| 1. | Producing a Needs Assessment document that pulled together lots of information about our lives and circumstances. It told us about where we live, how we live and how healthy we are. Also about what has been done and what is being done to improve our lives and to reduce inequalities in health and from it, we could see what remained to be done. |
| 2. | Involving many of you in the discussions and asking if you agreed with what we thought needed to be done to improve our lives and health and social care services. |
‘Healthy Denbighshire’ is proud to have an underpinning value base that hinges on building and sustaining:
| 1. | safe communities and trust |
| 2. | programmes designed to promote our health, independence and enjoyment of life |
| 3. | our active participation in creating better lives and communities |
| 4. | our personal decision-making and accountability |
| 5. | economic well-being; |
| 6. | a competent, happy and healthy workforce, getting the most out of technology and other resources, and aware of the importance of providing services in ways that respond to ethnic group, gender and other differences. |
‘Healthy Denbighshire’ is not just about services we might need when we are sick but
it is also about what we can do to keep ourselves well.
Each of the 8 themes is divided into 7 parts
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| Theme Meaning | How Does This Fit With What We Know? | What Have We Done So Far? | What Are We Going To Do In The Next 3 Years? | What Might This Mean For You? | What Might This Mean For Ceri's Family? |