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Leeds will be a healthy and caring city for everyone: where together we create the conditions for healthier lives so people who are the poorest improve their health the fastest, and everyone is supported to thrive from early years to later life.

Three goals underpinning this ambition:

  • ensuring children have the best start in life in a child-friendly city, where they can enjoy a healthy, happy, friendly and safe childhood, and their right to play, have fun and enjoy nature is championed
  • creating a fairer, healthier city where we are reducing mental and physical health inequalities by ensuring everyone has access to the building blocks for good health and to clinical excellence in healthcare services
  • building an age-friendly city where people in later life are valued and age well, leading healthy, connected, fulfilling and independent lives

Indicators to measure our impact:

  • life expectancy at birth in years (male and female)
  • school children feeling happy every or most days
  • children in low-income families, local area statistics
  • common mental health issues, recorded by GPs, all ages
  • severe mental illness, recorded by GPs, all ages
  • physical inactivity, recorded by GPs, adults 50+ years
  • babies with low birth weight, rate per 1,000 live births
  • children with a healthy weight, Reception (4 to 5 years old)
  • pupils achieving a good level of development at end of reception
  • preventable unplanned care use

Driving the ambition forward

The Leeds Ambitions are deliberately bold and will be challenging to achieve. No single organisation, including Leeds City Council, can deliver on them alone. To help us achieve this, each of the four Leeds Ambitions will be adopted by a convening organisation or partnership. Supported by Leeds City Council.

Delivery partnership

Leeds Health and Wellbeing Board.

Convenor

Sara Munro, Chief Executive of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Partnerships and strategies

Leeds is made up of a huge number of people, organisations, and partnerships that put health and wellbeing first. Through a range of activity, a real difference is being made on the outcomes of people living and working in the city and surrounding areas.

Key supporting plans and strategies

Main supporting partnerships