Together in Ealing is the joint local Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2023-2028. It has been developed by the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) which comprises of council and NHS representatives, voluntary and community organisations in Ealing, who work in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of residents and reduce inequalities in health outcomes.
The strategy focuses specifically on reducing inequalities by addressing the ’building blocks of health and wellbeing’ in the borough, and working more closely with residents and partners.
The vision
We will see Ealing's communities thriving, with good health and wellbeing, and with fairness and justice in the building blocks of health and wellbeing.
The focus on inequality
Ealing communities are richly diverse, resilient and have a wide range of valuable resources and cultural capital. However, we know that people in Ealing have unequal life experiences including their health and wellbeing.
These inequalities are not new, but their significance was more exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and existing health, social and economic inequalities were made worse. In addition to COVID-19, we learnt more about the impact that racial inequality can have, both on health outcomes and in a wider-sense, in Ealing through the Race Equality Commission in 2021.The commission declared race inequality a crisis that demands an urgent response, calling on Ealing’s institutions to be bold and make clear commitments in response to their work. The Health and Wellbeing Board’s decision to focus its strategy for 2023-2028 on tackling inequality is an example of public bodies working together to rise to the challenge of creating a fairer, healthier and more just Ealing.
The inequality focus for Together in Ealing is a shared vision of the Health and Wellbeing Board. It aligns well with the council’s commitment to fighting inequalities, one of the three Ealing Council plan 2022-2026 priorities, and complements the strategic vision set out in the North-West London Integrated Care System draft Strategy. Fighting inequalities is a core principle for the Ealing Integrated Care Board, and is supported by the Core 20 Plus 5 NHS England frameworks for adults and children; designed to support Integrated Care Systems to reduce healthcare inequalities.
Together in Ealing sets out nine commitments within three key themes, to drive Ealing Health and Wellbeing Board’s work over the next five years.
We will see Ealing's communities thriving, with good health and wellbeing, and with fairness and justice in the building blocks of health and wellbeing.
- Putting communities at the heart of everything
- Listen and learn from community conversations.
- Harness our collective resource to enhance the power of the voluntary, community and faith sectors.
- Develop new models for working with our local communities.
- Systems and structures that leave no one behind
- Drive excellence in a shared equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.
- Make services and support meet the diverse needs of our communities.
- Ensure the Health and Wellbeing Board is equipped to operate for the benefit of our diverse communities.
- Connecting the building blocks of health and wellbeing
- Ensure the lens of wellbeing and inequalities is applied to the 'building blocks'.
- Ensure greater contribution of the board to the building blocks of health and wellbeing.
- Lead a whole system approach to work on the building blocks of health and wellbeing.
The themes and commitments in this strategy have been informed by a wealth of intelligence from communities using information from existing consultations and strategy processes of board member organisations, bespoke community engagement and survey methods, and an understanding of Ealing’s inequalities through local data analysis.
The themes and commitments in this strategy have also been shaped by best practice approaches and principles gathered from national and regional evidence and learning.
To deliver the commitments, the Health and Wellbeing Board will oversee the development of a number of action plans with partners and communities over the next five years.
Together in Ealing will build on a wealth of good practice across the board, looking for ways to scale up, adapt and enhance this work to drive and improve positive change which is already occurring. The Health and Wellbeing Board will do all of this through continuing conversations with communities in Ealing’s seven towns.