Agenda item

To receive a report of the Executive Support Officer.

The Board received an update from the Executive Support Officer which provided Health and Wellbeing Board Members with an overview of key

updates on the following subjects of interest to the Board:

• Inaugural London Health and Wellbeing Board Chairs’ Network

• 20mph speed limit

• Health and Social Care Scrutiny Sub-Committee

• Substance Misuse Partnership update

• The Integration Transformation Fund

• London: a call to action

The Officer also provided Members with the following policy updates

• Healthwatch England annual report 2012/13

• Reducing health inequalities

• Care Bill

• Personal health budgets

• Developing a new adult social care offer

• Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions

• Financial case for a reasonable rebalancing of health and care resources

• Improving integrated care for people with mental health problems

• Smoking and mental health

• Social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people

• How healthy behaviour supports children's wellbeing

• Walking works

• Health 2020: a European policy framework and strategy for the 21st century

• Working longer: an EU perspective

• LGA briefings

• NHS Health checks

• A self-evaluation tool for health and wellbeing boards

• Directors of public health: role in local authorities

• Health & wellbeing boards: orchestrating the possibility for integrated care

• Assessing the transition to a more localist health system

• Health and wellbeing system improvement programme development tool

In response to a query from Members, Officers agreed that in future the update would include information on specific parts of the reports which would be of interest to Board Members.