Reports & Publications

West Midlands Health and Well-being Strategy

The vision of the West Midlands Regional Health and Well-Being Strategy is: 'To maintain, enhance, improve and protect the health and well-being of people in the West Midlands Region and to reduce health inequalities by 2020 within environmental limits, so as not to compromise healthy life for future generations'.

• West Midlands health and Well-Being Strategy - Full Document (PDF 5.7MB)

The outcome of the consultation on the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy:

• The list of consultation events
• The responses to the consultation
• The general report
• An overarching report
• Overlap/Link to other strategies
• The Summary of responses to Planning and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to Housing and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to Environment and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Economy and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Safer Communities and Health Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Later Life Chapter
• The Summary of responses to the Children and Young People Chapter

The previous consultation document can be found below:
(The main consultation document has been split into chapters for ease of download).

• Intro and contents
• Context
• Planning, Transport and Health
• Housing and Health
• Environment and Health
• Economy and Health
• Culture, Physical Activity and Health
• Safer Communities and Health
• Stages of Life
• Children and Young People
• Later Life
• Consultation and Action Planning
• References
• Abbreviations, Glossary and Further Explanations
• Acknowledgements a standard presentation
• The West Midlands Public Health Observatory have prepared a Technical Annex to the draft Regional Health and Welbeing Strategy
• The notes of the consultation event held on the 21st May at Austin Court in Birmingham
• To ensure that the implications for rural areas are considered as the final strategy is developed an appraisal of the Health and Wellbeing strategy consultation document has been carried out:
  The Rural Commentary and The Rural Workshop
• An equality review of the draft Health and Wellbeing strategy has been carried out by the Equality and Diversity Partnership - the full report.

The West Midlands Regional Health Strategy: Choosing Health for the West Midlands is available to download. The Government Office for the West Midlands site holds this information.

The Department of Health's National White Paper, Choosing Health: making health choices easier,sets out the key principles for supporting the public to make healthier and more informed choices in regards to their health. A downloadable version of the White Paper.

Promoting a Physical Activity Programme, a report for the Regional Health Partnership.

Department of Health Publications and Statistics are downloadable from The Department of Health website.

Report for RA Meeting on 14 January 2009 - Progress in delivering the Health & Well-Being Strategy

Regional Health Partnership Newsletters are available on this website:
March 2009
December 2008