Three years on, how is a project aimed at transforming the health of people in Fleetwood faring?
How do you improve the health of an entire town? That was the question facing the former fishing port of Fleetwood, in Lancashire.So, in 2016, a local GP began to lead efforts to turn things around, helping people take control of their health.
"And that bereavement process, that feeling of loss, that feeling of hopelessness and helplessness that everybody goes through with a bereavement - that's lasted maybe 40 years." He believed the only way to tackle Fleetwood's health problems was to start from the bottom up - not by dictating what needed to happen but by encouraging and supporting residents to take control of their own health, and in doing so, their own lives.
But her first involvement with Healthier Fleetwood came earlier, when she realised she needed to make some changes to her life. "I went home and cried and had a think and realised that it was about time I did something and I accepted responsibility for my own health, for my own wellbeing."
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