Improving Health and Wellbeing in Devon

The Way Ahead

Devon County Council and Devon Primary Care Trust have been working together on a major countywide review of what people need from their health and social care services - both now and in the future.

During the first part of our review – Improving health and wellbeing in Devon- involving you - we gathered information, made a detailed assessment of people’s needs, profiled the use of health and social care within our Devon Towns and rural hinterland areas, examined existing services and talked to people about what they wanted.

With this information we’ve shaped The Way Ahead - setting out how health and social care will be improved in Devon over the next five years.

Our priorities include:

• Putting more emphasis on helping people to stay healthy
• Targeting extra support towards more deprived communities
• Helping every child and young person get the best start in life
• Shifting more care into people’s homes and local communities
• Making a difference to caring for people with long term conditions or disabilities – and their carers
• Picking up mental health problems early on and keeping the focus on recovery and therapy
• Ensuring that services in Devon match the very best nationally

We welcome your views and feedback on this review and our priorities for the next five years

The Way Ahead (978KB - pdf help)

The above document is also available by main section headings with links to additional related information on each section.

You can view a short film about The Way Ahead. Please email us for more information.

Joint Strategic Review Consultation Report June 2008

Joint Strategic Review Consultation Report June 2008 (162KB - pdf help)