Our Collective Ambition: Live Well

What matters to me is that I can continue to ‘Live Well’ – this means that I am able to:

• START WELL – before conception, during pregnancy and birth, through childhood and into adolescence
• BE WELL – maintain good oral and dental health, good eye and ear health and good health for my gender
• STAY WELL – if I am living with cancer or any other long term condition, if I am living with obesity, if I require urgent or emergency care or if I am living with a disability
• FEEL WELL – if I am living with a mental health problem or addiction, or if I am a survivor of trauma or abuse
• AGE WELL – as I grow older, particularly if I am living with frailty or dementia
• DIE WELL – for myself and those close to me when I reach the end of my life

Our Collective Ambition is to enable everyone in Suffolk and North East Essex to ‘Live Well’.

We will do this by:

• not just ‘Thinking Differently’ but ‘Doing Things Differently’ together delivering wherever the work is best done. This could be in:
  – local neighbourhoods
  – place based alliances
  – across the counties of Essex or Suffolk
  – across the Suffolk and North East Essex system
  – across the East of England region
• improving access to high quality support, diagnosis and treatment
• supporting people to wait well when there are delays in accessing support, diagnosis or treatment
• working across sectors and organisations to co-produce with people and families, genuinely collaborative programmes that we know, based on evidence, will improve their health and wellbeing outcomes.