Strategy: City strategy - A healthy
population
Vision for a healthy Sheffield
To make Sheffield a healthier place to live and work by:
--making year on year improvements in the health and well
being of Sheffield people
--reducing health inequalities between diffeent parts of
Sheffield and between different groups of people
--providing first class health and social care services
for all Sheffield people
High level measure of success
By 2010
--starting with children under the age of one year,
at least a 10% reduction in mortality between manual groups
and the popultation as a whole
--at least a 10% reduction in the gap between the fifth
of areas with the lowest life expectancy at birth and the
population as a whole
--teenage pregnancies down by 50%
--40% reduction in premature deaths from coronary heart
disease
--20% reduction in premature deaths from cancer
By 2005
--Council rated in best 25% in the country and
all Sheffield's NHS Trusts and PCTs in highest rating nationally
--maximum waiting time for inpatient hospital care down
to six weeks and first outpatient outpatient appointment
down to 13 weeks
October 02, 2006 
