WORK PROGRAMME

NOTE: Items subject to change. All meetings to be held remotely via Microsoft Teams, unless stated otherwise

WEDNESDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2025 IN-PERSON MEETING – Harrogate Civic Centre REPORT DEADLINE – Monday, 11 November 2025
ITEM	LEAD	COMMENTS
North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2024-2025	Heather Pearson, North Yorkshire Safeguarding Child Partnership Executive Chair.	To be noted.
Update of the Better Care Fund 2025/26 Section 75 agreement and of the 2024/25 Outturn, 2025/26 Qtr 1 and Qtr 2 monitoring returns	Louise Wallace, Director of Public Health, NYC.	To be noted.
Workshop – Role of the Health and Wellbeing Board.	Helen Hirst.	N/A.

WEDNESDAY, 14 January 2026 REPORT DEADLINE – Tuesday, 6 January 2026
ITEM	LEAD	COMMENTS
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy mid-year report	Naomi Smith, Head of Health Improvement, NYC	To be noted.
Director of Public Health Annual Report	Louise Wallace, Director of Public Health, NYC.	To be noted.
Adults Safeguarding Board annual report	Adrian Green, Ind Chair Safeguarding Adults Board.	To be noted.
North Yorkshire Health Collaborative Update · Joint Committee and sub-groups · HNY ICB update · WY ICB update · NYC update	Richard Webb, Corporate Director of Health and Adult Services, NYC; Louise Wallace, Director of Public Health, NYC; Mark Bradley, Acting North Yorkshire Place Director – Humber & North Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership; and Matt Sandford, Director of Partnership and Place – Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership.	Updates to be noted.

FRIDAY, 20 March 2026

REPORT DEADLINE – Thursday, 12 March 2026

ITEM

LEAD

COMMENTS

North Yorkshire Health Collaborative Update

· Joint Committee and sub-groups

· HNY ICB update

· WY ICB update

· NYC update

Richard Webb, Corporate Director of Health and Adult Services, NYC; Louise Wallace, Director of Public Health, NYC; Mark Bradley, Acting North Yorkshire Place Director – Humber & North Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership; and Matt Sandford, Director of Partnership and Place – Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership.

Updates to be noted.

REGULAR REPORTS

· Health Protection Assurance Group Annual Report – May.

· Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy annual report – July.

· Adults Safeguarding Board annual report – January.

· Safeguarding Board for Children annual report – November.

· Director of Public Health Annual Report – November/January.

· Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy mid-year report – November/January.

OTHER ITEMS

· NHS Operating Framework and Local Government Financial Settlement – update

· Regeneration

· Local Plan Update

· Role of the Mayor and the Board’s relationship with the Combined Authority.

· Work and Health update.

· Getting people moving.

POTENTIAL WORKSHOPS / SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS

Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy Spotlight Sessions
- Oral Health
- Bradford and Craven Strategy (incl. Airedale Hospital update)
- Ambitious for Health
- Rural
- Coastal
- Inclusion Health
- Prevention
- Working with the VCSE to support health and wellbeing outcomes
- Research / HDRC
- Good work and health agenda, role of anchor organisations (not CAO) e.g. NHS, LA as big employers
- Neighbourhood health/community health services

Health of the Nation
Health and Inequalities

REQUIREMENTS OF THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING BOARD

· To endorse the JSNA (including the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment) and to undertake an annual review.

· To endorse the JHWS and undertake an annual review.

· To endorse the Integrated Better Care Fund submission annually.

· To receive annual reports through arrangements agreed by the UK Health Security Agency/Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and the Director of Public Health on health protection arrangements, including the local agreement of health protection priorities.

· To receive such other reports as are necessary for the reporting of serious incidents or areas of concern with a view to ensuring acute and longer term health protection responses and strategies delivered by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities/the UK Health Security Agency are delivered to properly meet the health needs of the local population.

· To report annually to NHS England, as part of their annual assessment of the Integrated Care Systems, as to how the ICSs have helped to deliver the JHWS.

· To receive the Annual Report of the Director of Public Health and to consider its recommendations in reviewing the priorities for improving population health and reducing health inequalities

· To comment on the draft Five Year Forward Plan produced by each ICB in North Yorkshire.

· To liaise with key statutory and non-statutory national and local organisations which have a remit to improve health and wellbeing in North Yorkshire. These will include the Integrated Care Systems; North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board and North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership.