Health and Wellbeing

Promote and provide opportunities for healthier lifestyles and improve the quality of life for older people.

Hertsmere Together partners will work together to ensure all residents of Hertsmere have good health and receive good quality health services.  It will develop and support initiatives to reduce inequalities in levels of health and the provision of health services. 

Hertsmere Together partners will work to develop and support initiatives to address the causes of ill health and promote healthy and active lifestyles for all residents.  Hertsmere Together will also develop and support initiatives to combat factors that contribute significantly towards poor health such as substance misuse and smoking.

Access to leisure and cultural opportunities also plays a significant part in enriching people's lives.  Hertsmere Together partners will work to increase participation and access to those services to enhance the cultural and social well-being of its residents and visitors.

Hertsmere Together will work towards promoting and providing opportunities for healthier lifestyles and improving the quality of life for older people by:

• Improving the rate of people engaging in a healthy. active lifestyle through the development of affordable physical activites and cultural opportunities.
• Investing time, money and effort to reducing health inequalities.
• Increasing the numbers of people stopping smoking.
• Developing initiatives to address mental health issues including isolation, anxiety and exclusion.
• Promoting sexual health

Action plan to follow shortly.