Issue - meetings

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

The purpose of the report is twofold;

(i) to invite the Health and Well Being Board to endorse the refresh of the current Health and Well Being Strategy

(ii) to invite the Health and Well Being Board to comment on an approach to the development of a new Health and Well Being Strategy from 2020

The Health and Wellbeing Board is invited to:

·         endorse the refresh of the current strategy

·         support the proposed approach to the development of the new strategy from 2020

·         agree to receive a further update on the strategy at the next meeting in January 2020.

Officer contact: Will Blandamer, 07799390375, will.blandamer@stockport.gov.uk

The interim Director of Public Health submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Board to consider the proposals for the refresh of the current Health and Wellbeing Strategy and to comment on an approach to the development of a new Health and Wellbeing Strategy from 2020.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·      Reference was needed within the strategy to efforts to help people to die well.

·      There was a need for some consistency in the language and terminology in all partners’ plans, including a recognition of the need to ‘Lead Well’.

·      Greater emphasis was needed on mental health and wellbeing for children and young people, and linking this Strategy to the Greater Manchester Children & Young People’s Plan.

·      The Strategy needed to make clear that health and social care partners working together was to improve outcomes for residents.

RESOLVED – That in relation to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and subject to consideration of the comments made by the Board:-

·         the refresh of the current strategy be endorsed;

·         the proposed approach to the development of the new strategy from 2020 be supported;

·         a further update on the strategy be submitted to the meeting in January 2020.