Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Deputy Director of Public Health.

The purpose of this report is to provide the Board with the Public Health 2014-15 Business Plan on a page. 

The Board is invited to receive the Public Health Business ‘Plan on a Page’ for 2014-15.

Officer contact: Donna Sager; 0161 474 3928; donna.sager@stockport.gov.uk    

The Deputy Director of Public Health submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) summarising the Public Health 2014-15 Business plan ‘on a page’.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         Some programmes were being intensified or expedited in order to improve the impact on more expensive health and social care interventions. This was being done through an evidence-based process. It was stressed that this was not at the expense of longer term preventative programmes which would continue.

·         It was important that when using evidence-based processes that professionals exploited all the available evidence rather than having too narrow a focus on traditional health journals.

·         The Public Health Service was working with the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust to embed public health work within the hospital environment.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.