Place Plan
Foreword
It is now 6 years since the first Cheshire Place Plan was launched, and 3 years since a refreshed Plan was published, reflecting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and changes to NHS structures.
The Place Plan is also the borough’s statutory Health and Wellbeing Strategy, which sets out an ambition to achieve excellence and sustainability in the future to improve the health and wellbeing of residents living in our borough.
Our vision remains:
To reduce inequality, increase years of healthy life and promote improved mental and physical health and wellbeing for everyone in Cheshire West’
Whilst the Place Plan is a 5-year plan, approval was given by the Health and Wellbeing Board to provide light touch updates in 2024 and 2025 so that Place partners can plan and co-produce a new Place Plan with our residents in 2026.
The Plan has therefore been updated in 2025 to include emerging national and regional priorities, ensuring it remains responsive and relevant to our local needs. This is in keeping with other recent strategy developments such as the Borough Plan, which sets out the differences we are seeking to make and the changes that local public services will implement. It also considers how residents and businesses can play their part and how we will work differently to make a difference in challenging times.
This updated 2025 Place Plan has therefore been renewed to reflect the following:
- the most recent NHS Operational and Planning Guidance and other relevant Guidance
- the Cheshire and Merseyside All Together Fairer: Our Health and Care Partnership Plan 2024-2029
- the Cheshire and Merseyside Joint Forward Plan - NHS Delivery Plan.
Progress against the ‘We will statements’ has also been collated from Place partners and this is available in a separate report for the Health and Wellbeing Board.
The updated Plan continues to build on the rich diversity of people, communities and assets that make Cheshire West such a great place. Together we can maximise the quality of life and opportunity for all our residents. And whilst the previous Plan outlined the requirement for us to be brave and work in ways that are different to how we have worked in the past, this updated Plan, and its outcomes demonstrate how we are doing this.
The Borough Plan, to which this Place Plan is aligned, clearly articulates the need to focus on our joint strengths and deliver through a common endeavour. Building on how our communities, businesses and local services stepped up during the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis, a stronger, more ambitious and collaborative future is possible.
The financial pressures currently faced by the health and care system in Cheshire West are unprecedented. The Place Plan sets out how services are developing to become more integrated, targeted and responsive to the increased demand, and how we can enable people to achieve better outcomes.
