About Public Health in Suffolk

What we do

Suffolk's Public Health, Communities and Public Safety team is responsible for helping people stay healthy and protecting them from threats to their health.

Improving the population's health is as much about improving the opportunities for good health as it is about providing health and care services.

Our priority is to address inequality in Suffolk so that it should not matter who people are or where they live when it comes to their health and opportunities in life. 

In Public Health our goals are to:

• promote health and healthy lifestyles
• protect the health and wellbeing of our county
• prevent ill health
• prolong lives
• improve health and the factors that affect health, wellbeing and health inequalities
• support our health and care services

Annual Public Health Report

The Suffolk Annual Public Health Report is an independent report from the Director of Public Health and Protection. This is a core part of the Suffolk Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and feeds directly in to the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JLHWS).

The current report and previous reports can be found on the Healthy Suffolk website, which is the home of the Suffolk Health and Wellbeing Board and the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

The Suffolk Health and Wellbeing Board

The Health and Wellbeing Board works to encourage integrated working between public service such as health, care and the police to improve wellbeing outcomes in Suffolk.

It is responsible for delivering the: 

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 
• Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy

Working with partners

All Suffolk residents have access to a range of services commissioned by Public Health, Communities and Public Health Suffolk which became part of Suffolk County Council on 1 April 2013.

Contact us

Email healthandwellbeing@suffolk.gov.uk or call Customer Service on 0345 606 6067.

Write to: