Sunderland Healthy City Plan

The Healthy City Plan 2020-2035 is our Health and Wellbeing Boards statutory Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy. The 2035 vision for health and wellbeing in Sunderland is: Everyone in Sunderland will have healthy, happy lives, with no one left behind.

The Plan was refreshed in 2025; it builds on the latest insight and analysis of health needs for Sunderland. The Plan describes the "building blocks of health" as the essential conditions that shape our ability to live healthy lives, recognising our health is shaped by the world around us - whether we have a good start in life, a safe and warm home, decent work, have enough money, and feel safe and connected to our community.

In the Plan we set out the case for change, strengthening these building blocks through coordinated action and reducing the inequalities that exist within them, to improve overall population health and reduce unfair differences in health. 

The refreshed Plan has 12 new inter-connected priorities, presented under the three themes of Healthy Places, Healthy Communities and Healthy People. Over the coming months the Health and Wellbeing Board will finalise its high-level Delivery Plan for the next three years.