Case studies

Community engagement and coordination is a major aspect of Plymouth City Council's new Co-Operative Street Service.

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council ran an analysis showing costs of smoking and savings to be made by tackling it.

Blackpool's Getting it Right Framework aims to address domestic violence and abuse against women in the area.

Between 2007-2009 Chelmsford had the second highest level of excess winter deaths in Essex behind Brentwood. 

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council's communications team reviewed existing data across different council departments to grow its subscriber base to over 75,000 residents.

In 2012, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, through its Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB), created a short development programme. It was intended to bring a greater focus and coherence to the work being undertaken across the borough to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. The programme was designed to:

The council and partners in Durham took an inclusive approach by ensuring that the main NHS providers were included in the decision-making process in order to drive improvements in health and wellbeing and to add value to the current way of working and to ensure a more coordinated patient pathway.

The LGA provided leadership support and development for Sandwell Health and Wellbeing Board during May to September 2012. The support identified the following challenges: