Health & Wellbeing Strategy Consultation |
What is a Health and Wellbeing Board?
Health and wellbeing boards were established under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to act as a forum in which key leaders from the local health and care system could work together to improve the health and wellbeing of their local population. They became fully operational on 1 April 2013 in all 152 local authorities with adult social care and public heath responsibilities. They have a statutory duty, with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), to produce a joint strategic needs assessment and a joint health and wellbeing strategy for their local population.
What is a Health and Wellbeing Strategy?
A Health and Wellbeing strategy identifies priorities for health and wellbeing for local populations and the approaches that will be taken to bring about improvements in these areas. Work done by organisations supporting health and wellbeing in local areas should be informed by and have regard to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy. Portsmouth's previous strategy ran from 2014-17, so we now need to refresh this to focus on the next few years.
Why does the strategy matter?
The strategy will be an important document for health services in Portsmouth, as it will inform commissioning decisions and also influence decisions that are taken across wider city services, including education, development and community safety.
To read more information about the strategy and to ready the strategy document - please click here.
What happens after the consultation?
After the 30th January, we will bring together all the results and consider what they mean for the draft strategy. Where we need to make changes to reflect consultation responses, we will do so. The final draft document will be presented to the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting in public on 21st February 2018 at 10.00am at the Civic offices, with the draft strategy available on the city council’s website before the meeting. Where agreed, the Board will then recommend that this is adopted by the city council and the clinical commissioning group.
The survey closed on 30th January 2018.
Health and wellbeing boards were established under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to act as a forum in which key leaders from the local health and care system could work together to improve the health and wellbeing of their local population. They became fully operational on 1 April 2013 in all 152 local authorities with adult social care and public heath responsibilities. They have a statutory duty, with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), to produce a joint strategic needs assessment and a joint health and wellbeing strategy for their local population.
What is a Health and Wellbeing Strategy?
A Health and Wellbeing strategy identifies priorities for health and wellbeing for local populations and the approaches that will be taken to bring about improvements in these areas. Work done by organisations supporting health and wellbeing in local areas should be informed by and have regard to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy. Portsmouth's previous strategy ran from 2014-17, so we now need to refresh this to focus on the next few years.
Why does the strategy matter?
The strategy will be an important document for health services in Portsmouth, as it will inform commissioning decisions and also influence decisions that are taken across wider city services, including education, development and community safety.
To read more information about the strategy and to ready the strategy document - please click here.
What happens after the consultation?
After the 30th January, we will bring together all the results and consider what they mean for the draft strategy. Where we need to make changes to reflect consultation responses, we will do so. The final draft document will be presented to the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting in public on 21st February 2018 at 10.00am at the Civic offices, with the draft strategy available on the city council’s website before the meeting. Where agreed, the Board will then recommend that this is adopted by the city council and the clinical commissioning group.
The survey closed on 30th January 2018.