Wednesday 18 September 2019

Can you turn around the health of an entire town?

Can you turn around the health of an entire town? How do you improve the health of an entire town? That was the question facing the former fishing port of Fleetwood, in Lancashire.

It's a place where lives have been blighted by illness and people were dying younger.

So, in 2016, a local GP began to lead efforts to turn things around, helping people take control of their health.

Since then, there have been ups and downs with the progress of what's known as the Healthier Fleetwood initiative. BBC News

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