The Health and Social Care Act
2012 requires the Council to establish a Health and Wellbeing Board
for its Area to encourage the improvement and integration of
working of Health and Social Care for North Yorkshire.
Other core functions
are:-
·
To promote integration and partnership across the
Council’s area including promoting joined up commissioning
plans across the NHS Social Care and Public Health
·
To support joint commissioning and pooled
budgets.
·
To assess the needs of the population in the
Council’s area and lead the statutory Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment and the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy