What is All Together Better?

Our aim is to work with local communities to support people to live a long, healthy and fulfilling life. We want to empower people to make healthier choices and encourage those living with an existing disability or long-term condition to live as well as possible with easy access to the right advice, treatment, care and support when they need it. We have a lot to be proud of in Sunderland, but we also have significant health challenges and inequalities:

• People generally have poorer health than the rest of the country
• There are significant pockets of deprivation across the city
• Life expectancy of men and women is lower than the national average
• We have high levels of obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption
• Around 79,000 people in the city have at least one long-term condition
• One in four adults has a long-term illness, health problem or disability.

The financial challenge we face is the biggest in a generation. Demands on our resources are growing faster than those available and, as a result, the local health and social care system is under increasing financial pressure.

We want to change this.