The Health and Well-Being Partnership aims to improve the health and well-being of local people by promoting integration and partnership working between the NHS, Social Care, Children’s Services, Public Health, the Third Sector and other local services, improving democratic accountability in health.
Its values will be based on leadership, partnership, clarity of purpose, communication and participation and it will focus on:

• Preventing ill health and helping people live longer happier lives
• Promoting equality by reducing unfair differences in health
• Improving the quality and accessibility of health and social care
• Delivering better value for the taxpayer

The health and wellbeing board is not a decision-making body but will recommend for approval to statutory authorities any jointly agreed plans or strategies relating to health and wellbeing; taking into account national policies, existing local service provision and likely available resources.

Read 'Health and Community Involvement' and 'How the NHS is Changing' for more

The board will make recommendations to the budget holding authority on the use of health elements of funding (where it is a condition of funding or has been locally agreed that those monies be allocated through the board). Recommendations will include: the use of the joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA); regular updates and monitoring of the high level health and wellbeing strategy; joint working on commissioning and pooled budgets; health promotion approaches and more. An executive group will oversee the business, nominated by the joint chairs, agreed by the board members who will provide the Council Cabinet and the Board of NHS Partners with a quarterly progress report against the agreed work plan.

You can download a set of notes of the recently held  shadow board meeting on 13 February 2013 which were written up by CVA's Matt Scott.  The bona fide minutes of the meeting can be found on the council website
 
Notes:  Shadow Health & Wellbeing Board 13.02.13

Shadow Health and Well Being Board Meeting Dates (From 1st April 2013 becomes Health and Well Being Board)

Board meeting dates 2013-14

Health and Well Being Report

Notes from the meeting for reps held on 24th July can be downloaded below.

Health and Well Being Board 24.07.12 

Report on the Shadow Health and Well Being Board held on 5th December 2012 can be downloaded below.

Shadow Health and Well Being Board 5.12.12

You can download a report below from the meeting held on 13th October of the Health and Well Being Board.

Health and Well Being Board 13.10.11

Both inequality and poverty cause health and social problems – they are forces that need to be tackled together.  With a stagnant economy and banking reform years away, inequality between rich and poor still looms large. New research by Karen Rowlingson for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that a combination of inequality and poverty can lead to serious health and social problems, and we cannot address one adequately without looking at the other. 

This tackles:

• Inequality is linked to health and social problems
• Poverty and the welfare state also matter
• Inequality and economic performance/stability - research complex
• Action on poverty and inequality can go hand-in-hand

Croydon setting the pace for Urgent Care in South West London.......
As set out in the Government’s White Paper, 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS', a coherent 24/7 urgent care service in Croydon will enable community members make choices about their care.

The NHS 111 service will make it easier for people to access local health services when they need help quickly only when it isn't life-threatening, or when they don't know who to call. Its availability will be 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will be free to call from both landlines and mobile phones.

Lead GP, Dr Agnelo Fernandes provides additional information click for  Urgent Care Services,  and click for Whole System Approach  

Jo Gough

Head of Community Involvement
CVA Resource Centre
82 London Road
Croydon
CR0 2TB

020 8253 7082
jo.gough@cvalive.org.uk