Committee details

North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board

Purpose of committee

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

 

Membership

Contact information

Support officer: Louise Hancock, Senior Democratic Services Officer. Tel: 01609 767015. Email: louise.hancock@northyorks.gov.uk