Issue - meetings

Health and Wellbeing Board - update

Meeting: 04/10/2012 - Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee (Item 50)

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.