HEALTH experts in Darlington are to produce an action plan to tackle inequalities.
More than 200 people met last week to devise ways of improving the health of the town's 102,000 population.
Darlington Partnership's Assembly on Health event, at the Dolphin Centre, brought together senior officials from the health service, local authority, police and voluntary sectors and the public.
Their findings will form the basis of an official report to be developed into an action plan on health for all ages and social backgrounds.
Darlington Primary Care Trust's director of public health Dr Nonnie Crawford said that health in the North-East was worse than in many parts of the country. Darlington also stood out as a problem area within the Tees Valley with men and women dying sooner than the national average.
Speaking about the action plan, Dr Crawford said: "In the near future people will see us doing things differently, particularly across the 11 priority wards."
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