Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board
Local authorities were invited to become ‘early implementer’
sites for the development of Health and Wellbeing Boards in January
2011. Cheshire East was successful in achieving ‘early implementer’
status (March 2011) and is part of a national early implementer
network that is supporting local areas in the development of their
Boards.
The Health and Wellbeing Board is expected to provide vision and
a co-ordinated drive to address the health and wellbeing needs of
the local population Cheshire East to reduce unacceptable and
avoidable variations in health and healthcare.
Health and Wellbeing Boards are intended to act as the ‘glue’
between the NHS bodies (Clinical Commissioning Groups, Providers,
NHS Commissioning Board and others) local authorities and other
agencies (Police, Fire, 3rd Sector) and give local people greater
say in how care is provided - thereby improving local democratic
accountability for local decisions about commissioned services.
Functions
The
Health and Social Care Bill outlines four main functions for
Health and Wellbeing Boards:
- to assess the needs of the local population and lead the
statutory joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) of the local
population
- to promote integration and partnership across areas, including
through joined-up commissioning plans across the NHS, social care
and public health
- to support and co-ordinate joint/integrated commissioning and
pooled budget arrangements, where all parties agree this makes
sense, for the benefit of the population
- enhance joint working arrangements through the development of a
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, informed by JSNA intelligence,
spanning the NHS, social care, public health and potentially other
services. This strategy will assist the development of
commissioning intentions, and subsequent procurement and
contracting of health and social care services by commissioners.
Local authority and NHS Commissioners will be required to have
regard to the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy. There will be no
statutory guidance on the nature of these strategies and no
requirement to submit them to the Department of Health, the NHS
Commissioning Board or any other central organisation, but they
will need to be made public. It is expected that this strategy
should provide a concise summary of how member organisations of the
Health and Wellbeing board will address the health and wellbeing
needs of their community and help reduce inequalities in health –
rather than it being a large, technical document
Additional duties also include:
- the co-ordination of pharmaceutical needs assessment - which
will inform the commissioning of community pharmacy services by the
NHS Commissioning Board and local public health commissioning
decisions
- a formal role in authorising clinical commissioning groups. The
NHS Commissioning Board will have to take Health and Wellbeing
Boards’ views into account in their annual assessment of
commissioning groups
Shadow Board Membership
The following Statutory members have been invited to form the
initial Shadow Cheshire East Health and Wellbeing Board:
| Organisation |
Role |
Post Holder |
| Cheshire East Council |
Cabinet Portfolio Holder – Health and Wellbeing |
Janet Clowes – HWBB Chair Designate |
| Cheshire East Council |
Cabinet Portfolio Holder - Adults |
Roland Domleo |
| Cheshire East Council |
Cabinet Portfolio Holder – Children & Families |
Hilda Gaddum |
| Cheshire East Council |
Chief Executive |
Erika Wenzel |
| Cheshire East Council |
Director Children’s, Families and Adult Services |
Lorraine Butcher |
| Cheshire East Council |
Leader of the Labour Group |
Dorothy Flude |
| Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust |
Director of Public Health |
Dr Heather Grimbaldeston |
| South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group |
Chief Officer |
Simon Whitehouse |
| South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group |
Chair / GP Lead |
Dr Andrew Wilson |
| Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group |
Chief Officer |
Jerry Hawker |
| Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group |
Chair / GP Lead |
Dr Paul Bowen |
| Cheshire East LINKs |
Chair |
Barrie Towse |
The
Health and Social Care Bill prescribes that there must be a
minimum of at least one local elected representative as a
core/statutory member of the Board. It will be for local
authorities to determine the precise number of elected members on a
Health and Wellbeing Board, and they will be free to insist upon
having a majority of elected councillors.
Other core/statutory members will be:
- the Director of Adult Social Services
- the Director of Children’s Services
- the Director of Public Health
- a local HealthWatch representative – Health and Wellbeing
Boards will be given a clear duty to involve local Health Watch,
patients and the public in informing the work of the Board.
Beyond this core membership, the Local Authority/Health and
Wellbeing Board will have the responsibility to decide who to
invite and it will have flexibility to include other members, such
as local representatives of the voluntary sector and other relevant
public service officials.
Further Details
For further details please contact:
Julie North
Senior Democratic Services Officer
Cheshire East Council
Westfields
Middlewich Road
Sandbach
CW11 1HZ
Tel - 01270 686460
e-mail - julie.north@cheshireeast.gov.uk
