Issue - meetings

To consider proposals to help the Council to improve health and reduce health inequalities across the communities of East Cheshire.

Consideration was given to proposals to help the Council improve health and reduce health inequalities across the communities of Cheshire East.

RESOLVED

For the reasons set out in the report: -

1. That Members support the whole system approach to health improvement and reducing health inequalities and the development of a Health Improvement and Reducing Health Inequalities Strategy through the Local Strategic Partnership’s Health and Wellbeing Thematic Partnership.

2. That Members support the establishment of a Cheshire East Council Health Improvement and Reducing Health Inequalities Working Group to contribute to the Strategy Development and to develop and take ownership of the Council’s action plan in response to the Strategy. 

3. That the Director of Public Health be made an honorary joint appointment between Cheshire East Council and the Primary Care Trust.