Policy information sourced from Barnet Local Plan Core Strategy DPD September 2012
Barnet - CS11: Improving Health and Well Being in Barnet
We will improve health and well-being in Barnet by:
- supporting the plans of NHS Barnet and from 2013 its successor bodies (including GP Consortiums) to deliver modern primary and community care and to commission other health care services
- working with partners on projects which enable us to progress better service integration, locating services where access can be improved, particularly for vulnerable groups
- supporting the plans of the Health and Well Being Board to integrate commissioning of local NHS services, social care and health improvement
- supporting healthier neighbourhoods through targeting of unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking and those which cause obesity and addressing health inequalities in terms of ill health and access to health facilities as identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
- supporting the remodelling of residential care homes to other forms of special accommodation in order to widen housing choice, support healthy and independent lives and to reduce over supply
- ensuring that vulnerable residents benefit from housing choice and that additional residential care home provision is only supported when evidence of local need can be demonstrated and that the proposal addresses the priorities of NHS Barnet, or its successor bodies, and the council’s Adult Social Services
- ensuring increased access to Barnet’s green spaces and opportunities for higher levels of physical activity through the Green Infrastructure SPD.
For more information please see Local Plan Core Strategy DPD September 2012