Agenda item

Report of the Director of Public Health

The Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board introduced the framework that the Health and Wellbeing Plan will focus upon resulting from feedback from the Board’s priority-focussed workshop on 14 December 2023.

The Board agreed a framework that generally reflects the life course recognising that a number of priorities and themes span across generations: Children and Young People: Best Start in Life / Staying Healthy and Living well / Healthy Places / Healthy Ways of Working.  These areas were established taking into account the key determinants of health inequality and how these affect residents throughout their lives.

The Chair proposed that additional workshops can be organised with a focussed or general format, members supported this proposal and suggested that the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment be a starting point for such workshops.  It was suggested that four workshops at regular intervals would be most beneficial with members of this Board to take the lead where appropriate.

Discussion was held as to whether pro-active actions would be viable with the response that targeting the most pressing issues impacting wider determinates of health regardless of their source is the main focus of the Plan.

RESOLVED – Members considered the next steps to develop the Health and Wellbeing Plan taking into account the feedback from the December 2023 workshop and agreed to organise further workshops in the near future to further this work.

REASON - It is a statutory duty of the Health and Wellbeing Board to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population, reduce health inequalities and, in partnership develop a Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy, (Health and Wellbeing Plan)