We all want "Health and Well Being" don't we. How to achieve is another matter of course. We've had the Board dealing with this as part of our Local Strategic Partnership for some years now, but I have felt it frustrating that we are there to deliver a Government agenda as to what priorities are and how to tick the right boxes. Excuse me - but Stockton is not Westminster, and we have different issues, and ways of measuring success are not necesarily meaningful at all.
So this morning there was a seminar on how the new Government proposals in the "Public Health White Paper" was going to impact on us locally. I was pleased that the overall views that I picked up on in the groups I was in was not a winge that things were changing, but a very positive look at what opportunities were there for us to pick up and take, so we can really make a difference to long standing problems of "health and well being" locally.
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