Health and Wellbeing Board

What is the Health and Wellbeing Board?

Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, local authorities are required to have in place and service a Health and Wellbeing Board.

The East Riding Health and Wellbeing Board has a number of delegated powers. These include the following:

1. To prepare a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 
2. To prepare a joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 
3. To respond to consultations from Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) on their draft commissioning plans and amendments to those plans 
4. To respond to consultations from Clinical Commissioning Groups on their annual report
5. To respond to consultations from the NHS England (external website) in a performance assessment in relation to a clinical commissioning group 
6. To assess and publish a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (external website) for the East Riding
7. To approve and monitor the Better Care Fund plan.

The Board's full terms of reference and delegated functions can be viewed in the council's constitution.

Health and Wellbeing Boards have a duty to encourage integrated commissioning between health, social care, and public health by bringing together representatives of these sectors. 

The Health and Wellbeing Board became fully operational with all necessary powers on 1 April 2013 following the abolition of the Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).  

The Health and Wellbeing Board is subject to scrutiny from the Health, Care and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Sub-committee.

More information on Health and Wellbeing Boards can be found at:

Health and Social Care Act 2012 (external website)

What are Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)?

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are groups of General Practioners (GPs) that are responsible for delivering some local health services in England. They do this by commissioning or buying health and care services which include:

• non-specialist acute services
• community services
• mental health and learning disability
• ambulance
• continuing health care
• enhanced services
• hospices.

All GP practices must belong to a CCG. In the East Riding of Yorkshire, all GP practices other than the Pocklington Group Practice are members of the East Riding CCG. More information can be found on the East Riding CCG website:

East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (external website)

The Pocklington Group Practices has elected to become part of the Vale of York CCG. More information can be found on the Vale of York CCG website:

Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (external website)

What is a Health and Wellbeing Strategy and where can I view it?

The Health and Wellbeing Strategy is a document produced by the Health and Wellbeing Board that aims to meet the needs identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). As with JSNAs, the Strategy is unique to each local area and details what priorities the health and wellbeing board has set in order to tackle the needs identified in the JSNA.

The East Riding Health and Wellbeing Board can be viewed below:

East Riding Health and Wellbeing Strategy (pdf 2mb)

Who sits on the board?

Under the Social and Health Care Act 2012, Health and Wellbeing Boards must include:

• the Director of Adult Social Services
• the Director of Children’s Services
• the Director of Public Health
• a representative of each Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
• a representative of the local Healthwatch
• local councillors.
  

Membership of the East Riding of Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board

Membership of the East Riding of Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board is made up of the following people:

Voting Members

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

• Councillor Owen (Chair)
• Councillor Aitken (Vice-Chair)
• Councillor Evison
• Councillor Harold
• Councillor Medini 
• Caroline Lacey - Chief Executive 
• Bev Compton - Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health - East Riding of Yorkshire Council
• Eoin Rush - Executive Director of Children, Families and Schools - East Riding of Yorkshire Council
• Andy Kingdom - Director of Public Health - East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Integrated Care Board (ICB)

• Simon Cox - East Riding of Yorkshire Place Director 

Primary Care Networks

• David Fitzsimons - City Health Care Partnership

NHS England - Improvement

• Shaun Jones - Interim Locality Director
  

Hull Community & Voluntary Services Ltd. (CVS)

•  Carrie Duran - Head of Health and Care Programmes - Hull Community & Voluntary Services Ltd. (CVS) (external website)

Non-Voting Members

The following non-voting members are also co-opted onto the Board:

• 1 representative of the Council’s Community Services Provider - Currently City Health Care Partnership Community Interest Company (external website)
• 1 representative of Hull and East Yorkshire MIND (external website)
• 1 representative of  Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (external website)
• 1 representative of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (external website)
• 1 representative of  Pickering and Ferens Homes (external website) 
• 1 representative of the Voluntary Sector Contract Provider - Currently the Smile Foundation (external website)

Who chairs meetings?

Councillor Owen chairs meetings of the board.

When are the meetings?

For details of the next Health and Wellbeing Board meetings please see the table below:

* Public and press attendance at meetings?

Seating in the public gallery is limited, therefore places must be booked in advance by contacting the Committee Manager on the contact details below. 

Members of the public and press are encouraged to view proceedings on the council's committee YouTube channel where the meeting can be viewed live, or at a later date.

Are meetings open to the public?

Yes. Meetings are open to the public but there may be some matters which will be considered in private. 

During such situations, members of the public will be asked to leave the meeting at this point. The circumstances under which we can consider matters in private are tightly controlled by law.

Seating in the public gallery is limited, therefore places must be booked in advance by contacting the Committee Manager on the contact details below. 

Members of the public and press are encouraged to view proceedings on the council's committee YouTube channel where the meeting can be viewed live, or at a later date.

Refreshments

Please note: refreshments are not normally available for members of the public to access at meetings.

Can I record, film, take photographs or use social media during meetings?

Yes. New legislation means that you can film, record, take photos and use social media during open meetings. 

For more information please visit Photography, filming, and social media use.

Can members of the public speak at meetings?

No. Members of the public are not permitted to speak at Health and Wellbeing Board meetings.

How and when can I view agenda and minutes?

Agendas

Agendas and reports for the Health and Wellbeing Board are placed on public deposit five clear working days before each meeting and can be viewed by selecting the relevant agenda below:

Please note: reports containing exempt or confidential matters will not, however, be available.

Minutes

Minutes for Health and Wellbeing Board meetings are placed on public deposit no later than five clear working days after each meeting and can be downloaded by clicking or tapping on the relevant minutes below:

Please note: that agendas and minutes of meetings prior to those available online may be obtained by contacting Michelle Bennett, the committee manager:

Email: michelle.bennett@eastriding.gov.uk 

Tel: (01482) 393208

East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Democratic Services
Overview and Scrutiny
County Hall
Beverley
HU17 9BA.