Health and Wellbeing Board - update
To receive a verbal update from the Portfolio Holder for Health and Adult Social Care.
Minutes:
Councillor Clowes, Portfolio Holder for Health and Adult Social Care, updated on the following matters:
The public consultation on the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
was now complete and responses were being analysed. There had been feedback including there should be
involvement of the Living Well Dying Well project and hospices;
more specific reference should be made to childhood obesity; there
should be reference to smoking cessation; dealing with self harm;
isolation and loneliness of older people; drug misuse; improved
access to the natural environment. An
informal meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board was to take
place on 16 October to discuss the comments;
The Local Healthwatch consultation was
complete and the results were being analysed. Confirmation of funding was still awaited although
funding would be higher than originally anticipated. A tender document for the contract was currently
being prepared. The consultation had
suggested that the advocacy role should be carried out by
specialists. Members asked why
Healthwatch and Advocacy was not
included in one contract and Councillor Clowes explained that it was felt that advocacy and
complaints was a very specialised area with professional expertise
needed;
A Mental Health training and awareness session had been arranged
for Tuesday 30 October and Members were encouraged to attend.
RESOLVED: That the update be noted.