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SBC Award from Hertfordshire Public Health

The Chair was pleased to announce that the Council had been awarded £90,000 by Hertfordshire Public Health to continue its work in reducing health inequalities in the town over the coming two years.  She felt that this was testament to the excellent and proactive approach the Council had taken over a number of years to improve the health and wellbeing of the Borough’s residents.

The Chair commented that, as the Council refreshed its Healthy Stevenage Strategy over the coming year, this resource would help in tackling health inequalities that had been brought to the fore during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to work more closely with local Primary Care Networks and the Borough’s two flagship Healthy Hubs provided through the Healthy Stevenage Partnership.

The Chair expressed her gratitude to the Hertfordshire Director of Public Health, Professor Jim McManus, and his team for their ongoing commitment to District-level commissioning as a means to improving local health issues.