Our vision, outcomes and themes

Our vision

To improve the overall health and wellbeing of everyone in Cumberland and reduce health inequalities.

The outcomes we want to see through the delivery of this strategy are:

People in Cumberland are healthy and make positive choices about their health and wellbeing
People remain independent and healthy for longer
People can access the right services in the right place for them at the right time
Better, more joined up health, care and wellbeing services and support

The strategy is based on four themes:

Theme	Focus	Aim	Activities
Wider determinants of health and wellbeing	Population focus	Health Improvement	Economic capital; social capital; human capital; manufactured capital; economic capital
Healthy Behaviours through the life course	Individual focus	Health improvement	Starting well, living well, ageing well, dying well.
Healthy protection and early intervention	Population focus	Treatment and care	Immunisation, screening; public protection; communicable disease control; emergency planning.
Integrated health, care and prevention services	individual focus	Treatment and care	Right care, right place, right time.

The following principles underpin this strategy:

Prevention and Early Intervention at the core
Proactive wide reaching partnerships especially with our third sector
Independent, activated and resilient individuals and communities
Co-production at the heart of planning and delivering improved health and care services
Tackling inequalities in health and service provision
Using technology to support population health management, prevention and self-care
A sustainable health and care workforce
Clear governance supported by evidence based decision making