Shaping Croydon’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2024-2029)

During the engagement session which was part of Healthwatch Croydon's Annual meeting 2023, 50 participants took part in a 45 minute interactive discussion. These were some of the key findings and recommendations: 

Findings:
• Importance of good mental health and link to physical health.
• Independence and self-care are key as well as access to green space.
• Support from services and building a strong relationship between services,
patients, and wider community.
• Vision statement could be simpler with less jargon and grounded. It needs to focus on equity and representation.
• Access to services still of more consideration for many.
• Need to show more actions rather than just words.
• A concern about reach and awareness to that it is for all the community.
• Wider aspects around environment and social behaviour need to be considered.

Recommendations:
• A significant focus on mental health.
• A focus on supporting independence and self-care.
• Environmental impact of good health including green spaces and places for healthy activities.
• Clearer, simpler, jargon-free vision statement.
• Focus on equity and representation.
• Link to specific actions rather aspirations.
• Consider wider aspects such as housing, employment, environment, and work, which influence health and wellbeing.

Read the full report below as well as the summary of actions from the live event and finally the published Croydon Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy  2024-2029.