Decision details
Establishing York's Health and Wellbeing Board (listed on the Forward Plan as 'Local Implications to Changes in the NHS')
Decision Maker: Executive
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
Purpose of Report; Significant changes are
proposed in new health legislation which will see public health
transfer to the Local Authority (LA), a new body called Healthwatch
replacing the Local Involvement Network (LINks), new roles for GPs
in the forefront of commissioning and the requirement for every LA
to establish a Health and Wellbeing Board.
Members are asked to consider the proposed changes.
Decision:
RESOLVED: That the arrangements set out in the report for the establishment of a shadow Health and Wellbeing Board (H&WB) for York be approved; in particular:
· the proposed membership in paragraph 18
· the draft constitution at Annex C
· the principle that, from April 2012, meetings of the H&WB should be held in public.
REASON: To discharge the Council’s new obligations under the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 (expected to receive Royal Assent shortly) and to further the Council’s corporate objectives.
Report author: Pete Dwyer
Publication date: 05/10/2011
Date of decision: 04/10/2011
Decided at meeting: 04/10/2011 - Executive
Effective from: 08/10/2011
Accompanying Documents:
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