The Healthy Croydon Partnership
- What is the Healthy Croydon Partnership?
- Membership
- Outcomes
The background
The Healthy Croydon Partnership was set up in 1999 to provide strategic leadership for health and social care services in Croydon. Healthy Croydon is one of the family of partnerships that comprise the Croydon Strategic Partnership.
Aims and vision
Healthy Croydon aims to protect and improve the health, safety and well-being of local residents, visitors and people who work in Croydon.
Its vision is that people in Croydon:
- are able to make informed choices about their health
- can maximise their health and well being
- are supported by high quality services which are responsive to their needs
- do not experience inequalities in health
Shared responsibilities and goals
With over 330,000 people living in Croydon it is crucial that organisations work together to ensure a true multi-agency approach to improving health in Croydon. The Healthy Croydon Partnership is ambitious for improving the health of local people and for improving services.
It has been responsible for:
- developing a shared understanding of priorities for health and well-being in the borough
- selecting key priorities to be jointly worked on
- providing the context and commitment for successfully implementing improvements
Healthy Croydon is responsible for the development and delivery of Improving health and well-being: our plan for a Healthy Croydon 2008-11. It also oversees the development and monitoring of the health and well-being elements of Croydon's Local Area Agreement and Sustainable Community Strategy.
Contact Details
- Contact name
- Steve Morton
- Job title
- Healthy Croydon Partnership Manager
- Telephone
- 020 8760 5773
- Fax
- 020 8407 1376
- steve.morton@croydon.gov.uk
- Address
- Healthy Croydon Support Unit
12th floor North West side
Taberner House
Park Lane
Croydon CR9 2BA
Downloads
Improving health and well-being: our plan for a healthy Croydon 2008-11
(2361K)
- Our new joint health improvement plan has been developed by the Healthy Croydon Partnership. It builds on a long history of partnership working in Croydon that has delivered real benefits for the people of the borough. Our goal is clear: we are working together to create a healthier and happier Croydon for everyone who lives in, works in and visits the borough.
