Decision details

Report of the Cabinet Member for Healthier and Safer City seeking approval of the Southampton City Health and Care Strategy 2020-2025.

(i)  To recommend the Southampton City Health and Care Strategy, as set out in Appendix 1, for approval.

1.  The Southampton City Health and Care Strategy reflects a whole system approach to improving health and care outcomes for our population, and sets out a plan to guide the activities of all partners over the next five years. Southampton City Council is a key partner in this as the strategy aligns with agreed council outcomes, and contributes to the achievement of council priorities and commitments.

2.  The vision of the Health and Care Strategy is “A healthy Southampton where everyone thrives”. This reflects the council’s vision of “a city of opportunity where everyone thrives”.

3.  The strategy is also aligned to, and is a subset of, the Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2017-2025) being led by the Southampton Health and Wellbeing Board.

An alternative would be to try and impact on health and care outcomes for the city as individual organisations without any joint vision and priorities. This would reduce the opportunity to make optimum use of the health and care resources available, increase the likelihood of duplication of effort or conflicting messages and reduce the potential to focus on prevention and early intervention.