Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Committee received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services setting out the City of London Health Profile 2018 containing summary information on the health of the people in each local authority area and factors that may influence their health.

A Member underlined that City residences were often second homes for some. He stated that, if this were the case and these individuals were accessing health care in the City, he hoped that City and Hackney were received the funds for this.

With regard to the paragraph concerning violent crime, a Member referred to a recent Evening Standard article that had produced statistics on the safest postcodes in London. He noted that EC1Y, the Golden Lane Estate, had been listed as London’s second safest postcode.

A Member referred to the paragraph on new STI diagnoses. She recalled that this Committee had previously been informed that people would no longer be permitted to use their office postcode to access sexual health services so that funds could be adequately reclaimed. Officers undertook to look into this matter further and report back to Members. It was, however, highlighted that the recently published statistics were taken up to July 2018 and it could, therefore, be that there was a lag in the data around this as a new clinic had now been established.

RESOLVED – That Members note the City of London Health Profile 2018 and consider how they might use it to shape their forward-planning process.