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 Health and
Wellbeing Board are:
(i)
To encourage for the purpose
of advancing the health and wellbeing of people in Tameside,
persons who arrange for the provision of any health or school care
services in Tameside to work in an integrated manner.
(ii)
To provide such advice,
assistance or other support as appropriate for the purpose of
encouraging partnership arrangements under section 75 of the
National Health Service Act 2006 between the Council and NHS bodies
in connection with the provision of health and social care
services.
(iii)
To encourage persons who
arrange for the provision of health-related services (i.e.,
services which are not health or social care services but which may
have an effect on the health of individuals) to work closely with
the Board and with persons providing health and social care
services.
(iv)
To exercise the functions of
the Council and its partners in preparing a joint strategic needs
assessment under section 116 of the Local Government and Public
Involvement in Health Act 2007 and a joint health and wellbeing
strategy under section 116A of the Act.
(v)
To give the Council the
opinion of the Board on whether the Council is discharging its duty
to have regard to the joint strategic needs assessment and joint
health and wellbeing strategy in discharging the Council's
functions.
(vi)
To exercise such other
Council functions which as delegated to the Board by the Council or
the Leader.
(vii)
To appoint such
sub-committees or joint sub-committees as the Board considers
appropriate.
The Health and Wellbeing Board members
consists of:
Core Statutory Membership
·
Executive Leader
(Health)
(Chair)
·
Executive Member (Children
and Families)
·
Executive Member (Adult
Social Care)
·
Executive Member (Business
and Employment)
·
Chief Executive of Tameside
MBC
·
Director of Adults
Services
·
Director of Children’s
Services
·
Director of Population
Health
·
Deputy Place Based
Lead
·
Clinical Lead
·
Action Together /
Healthwatch
Additional Membership
·
Inclusive Growth Board Representative (Director of
Place)
·
Community Safety Partnership
Board Representative
·
Chair of Adult’s
Safeguarding Board
·
Chair of Children’s
Safeguarding Board
·
Tameside NHS Foundation
Trust Representative
·
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Representative
·
Active Tameside
Representative