Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care

Surrey County Council has a responsibility to support, care for and protect the most vulnerable people in the community, as well as providing information and advice to all Surrey residents.

Adult Social Care vision

"Supporting people to live their best life"

People live their best life by connecting to their communities, embracing supportive technology and accessing joined-up support and care when needed, which delivers what matters to them.

Delivering this vision will mean residents:

Are informed and able, or have the support, to make decisions about their lives
Are enabled to be active, independent and have good wellbeing
Are connected to their communities.

Adult Social Care ambitions

Developing an innovative, high-quality prevention approach, underpinned by an accessible digital offer for those residents who are able to self-serve to access information and advice on demand and personalised support for those who need it
Transforming Surrey's reablement offer to support all people, from the community and following hospital discharge, who would benefit from personalised support to achieve their goals and to gain or re-gain skills, confidence and independence
Improving mental health outcomes to maximise independence for Surrey's people through better early intervention, prevention, targeted and long-term support
Delivering with partners modern, technology-enabled homes and accommodation models with the right care and support to enable people to live as independently as possible
Working together as an effective and financially sustainable system, with place-based partners and residents to co-produce services, to deliver good outcomes for people, support them to access health and social care at the right time and in the right place
Working in partnership to improve outcomes for young people in transition to adulthood to maximise their independence and live their best life
Enhancing our commitment to consistent strengths-based approaches to prevent, reduce and delay reliance on, and demand for, long-term care
Creating the environment for staff to develop, progress their careers and thrive in a respectful, inclusive workplace with a supportive culture.

Key support areas you can find useful information on:

Senior leaders in Adult Social Care

Executive Director, Adults, Wellbeing and Health Partnerships – Helen Coombes
Strategic Director Transformation, Assurance and Integration – Sarah Kershaw
Director Integrated Commissioning - Jonathan Lillistone
Director Public Health - Ruth Hutchinson
Chief of Staff - Kathryn Pyper
Director Mental Health, Prisons & Emergency Duty Team - Liz Uliasz
Director Operations (Mid and East Surrey) - Paul Richards
Director Operations (South West and North West Surrey) - Wendy Hale
Director Operations (Woking and Nominated Individual) - Anna Grainger
Director Disabilities - Fadzai Tande
Director of Prevention & Home First - Chris McKenzie
Director of Practice, Assurance & Safeguarding - Luke Addams

For general enquiries, please contact Adult Social Care.

Public Health

The Public Health team works across a number of key areas of health improvement and protection for the population of Surrey. Many of these services are commissioned from third-parties from across the NHS, local government, voluntary and private sectors. The key areas Public Health support are:

Breastfeeding
National child measurement programme
Children and young people (aged 0 to 19 years)
Healthy child programme
Dental public health
Obesity and weight reduction services
Health checks
Sexual health services
Stopping smoking
Drug and alcohol support services
Mental health and wellbeing
Physical activity
Workplace health
Preventing excess winter deaths

For more information about why public health is important and Surrey's public health registrar placements, see About public health

Surrey Coroner

The coroner is a doctor or lawyer responsible for investigating deaths in particular situations and can also arrange for a post-mortem examination of the body, if necessary. An inquest is a legal inquiry into the causes and circumstances of a death.

The Surrey Coroner is Richard Travers, assisted by an Area Coroner, Simon Wickens and Assistant Coroners. They deal with cases at the coroner's court in Woking, under the direction of the coroner, reporting and referring to him.

For more information see Surrey Coroner.