Update of the Director of Public Health.
Minutes:
A verbal update was provided on the Health and Wellbeing Strategy with the Director of Public Health providing Board Members with information on recent workshops that were held in order to establish areas of work with gratitude expressed to those board members who attended and led workshop groups.
Points of note included the recognition of the importance of ageing well with a great deal of focus on the wider determinants and the key differences on life expectancy. Board Members also highlight the importance of engagement and setting immediate priorities.
A board member reported that the workshops were well attended with a cross-section of agencies being represented enabling a solid mandate. Conversations regarding process and way to enable young people to help drive targets were discussed with the belief that short-term achievable goals alongside the overarching vision would be extremely useful to build focus and momentum.
It was requested full results be fed back to board members on the usefulness of the exercise, this was agreed. With a further query as to whether those who could not attend the workshops would still be able to send ideas across, it was confirmed that this is still acceptable.
RESOLVED – That board members note the update provided.
REASON – To keep board members informed of the steps taken and the involvement of Board Members