Issue - meetings

Recommendations

(1)   That Executive notes the content of the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2023-2024.

(2)   That Executive considers the recommendations made within the report and how these relate to the whole local authority.

Considered – A report of the Director of Public Health (the DPH) introducing the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2023-24 ‘Live, Age, Engage: healthy ageing in North Yorkshire’. 

Councillor Michael Harrison, Executive Member for Health and Adult Services, introduced the report which was a legal requirement.  Louise Wallace, the DPH, referred to the title of the report, which focussed on older people in North Yorkshire. The report explored healthy ageing and what that looked like in North Yorkshire in response to the projected increase in the older population and the opportunities and challenges this brought.

The report focussed on four healthy aging priorities for North Yorkshire and provided recommendations for each of the priorities, which were:

·        Health and reducing inequalities

·        Housing

·        Financial security and employment

·        Making North Yorkshire an age-friendly place

In response to a question, the DPH acknowledged that coastal communities faced particular challenges in relation to the ageing population and advised that bespoke considerations were required. The Public Health team was happy to visit such locations to discuss the issues further.

Members welcomed the report, and it was

Resolved (unanimously) - that

1)     the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2023-2024 be noted

2)     consideration be given to the recommendations made within the report and how these relate to the whole local authority.

Reason for Recommendations

The recommendations are made on the basis that the report provides important recommendations for the health of the North Yorkshire population, and that publication of the report will meet the local authority’s legal duties to so publish.