The strategic priorities of the Tameside
Health and Wellbeing Board are to:-
·
Improve the health and
wellbeing of local residents throughout life;
·
Give targeted support to
those with poor health to enable their health to improve
faster;
·
Focus on prevention and
early intervention;
·
Develop cost effective
solutions and innovative services through improved
efficiency;
·
Emphasise local action and responsibility for everyone;
·
Deliver more joined up
services that meet local need; and
·
Enable and ensure public
involvement in improving health and wellbeing.
The terms of reference for the Tameside
Health and Wellbeing Board are:-
1.
Assess the needs of the
population through the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment;
2.
Agree and produce a Joint
Health and Wellbeing Strategy to address needs, which commissioners
will need to have regard to in developing commissioning plans for
health care, social care and public health;
3.
Promote joint
commissioning;
4.
Promote integrated
provision, joining up social care, public health and NHS services
with wider local authority services;
5.
Engage in the development of
Clinical Commissioning Group commissioning plans;
6.
Provide advice to the NHS
Commissioning Board in authorising and
assuring Clinical Commissioning Groups;
7.
Continue policy focus on
patient choice, quality and growing the role of the
independent/voluntary sectors.
8.
Pursuant to sub-section
196(3) of the HSCA, the Health and Wellbeing Board may give the
Council its opinion on whether the Council is discharging its duty
under section 116B of the Local Government and Public Involvement
in Health Act (Duty to have regard to Assessments and
Strategies).
The Health and Wellbeing Board members
consists of:
Core Statutory Membership
·
Executive Leader
(Chair)
·
Executive Member (Children
and Families)
·
Executive Member
(Health, Social
Care and Population Health)
·
Executive Member (Housing,
Planning and Employment)
·
Chair of Clinical
Commissioning Group
·
Chief Operating Officer,
Clinical Commissioning Group
·
Healthwatch Representative
·
Director of Adults
Services
·
Director of Children’s
Services
·
Director of Population
Health
Additional Membership
·
Partnership Lead, Clinical
Commissioning Group
·
Supportive Communities Board
Representative
·
Prosperous Tameside Board
Representive
·
Crime and Disorder
Partnership Board Representative
·
Chair of Children’s
Safeguarding Board
·
Chair of Adult’s
Safeguarding Board
·
Tameside NHS Foundation
Trust Representative
·
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Representative
·
Stockport NHS
Foundation Trust Representative
·
Active Tameside
Representative
·
Tameside Adult Safeguarding
Board Representative