Health, wellbeing and social care

Healthcare and social care are important public services that all of us need at some time during our lives.

Charnwood Community Health and Wellbeing Partnership

The Charnwood Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2023- 2026 brings together a wide range of partners with the common purpose of improving the health and wellbeing of the local population.  Forming partnerships between health and care organisations at a local level is key to planning and delivering joined up services to improve the lives of people who live and work in the area.

Working together in collaboration, we have a set of priorities that all partners across Charnwood recognise and support. We remain committed to making a real change by focusing on these key priorities and tackling health inequalities which are present within our population. Tackling the wider determinants of health to address the root causes of health and wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do.

Our Local Priorities

• Priority 1: Improving Mental Health in Teenagers
• Priority 2: Reducing the incidence and impact of Loneliness
• Priority 3: Dementia
• Priority 4: Care Planning for Dying Well
• Priority 5: Improved Mental Health

Each priority has an action plan and delivery group that meet regularly and update to the Partnership quarterly.

The Charnwood Community Health and Wellbeing Plan can be read below:

• Charnwood Community Health and Wellbeing Plan 2023-2026 (PDF Document, 2.2 Mb)

Contact details for the partnership

Verity Graham, Communities & Wellbeing Manager at Charnwood Borough Council. Email: verity.graham@charnwood.gov.uk

Healthcare

The National Health Service (NHS) provides treatment, services and advice to people who are ill or have had an accident and help them stay healthy.

Social care

Social care covers a wide range of services and support provided by local authorities and other organisations to help the most vulnerable people in society live as independently as possible. Many of these services are provided by Leicestershire County Council (LCC).

• Leicestershire County Council Social Services

• Supporting children with Special Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Information on fostering, adoption and looking after children can be found on the children and families section of the LCC website.

Charnwood Dementia Action Alliance

Charnwood Borough Council is part of the Charnwood branch of the Dementia Action Alliance which encourages local communities to take practical action to improve the lives of people living with dementia.

There are nearly 1,500 people in Charnwood living with dementia and the Council aims to support local communities in the borough by offering practical training to staff and groups through the Alzheimer's Society's Dementia Friends programme.