Issue - meetings

Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (People)

The Cabinet considered a report of the Deputy Chief Executive (People) that sought approval of the Coventry Health and Well-being Strategy for 2019 – 2023.

The Council and the Clinical Commissioning Group had a statutory duty, through the Health and Wellbeing Board, to develop a Health and Wellbeing Strategy that set out how they would address the health and well-being needs of local residents, as identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

The aim of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy was to develop a set of shared, evidence-based priorities for commissioning local services which would improve the public’s health and reduce inequalities. The outcomes of the work would help to determine what actions the Council, the NHS and other partners needed to take to meet health and social care needs, and to address the wider determinants that impacted on health and wellbeing. The current Strategy covered the period 2016-2019, and a new Strategy for 2019-2023 had been developed for approval and adoption.

The Strategy provided Coventry with a picture of what the Health and Wellbeing Board would deliver over the next three years and how partners would work together to achieve this. It set out the following three strategic ambitions:

•  People are healthier and independent for longer

•  Children and young people fulfil their potential

•  People live in connected, safe and sustainable communities

The Strategy was attached as an appendix to the report, together with further appendices for the results of consultation and the Equality and Consultation Analysis.

RESOLVED that the Cabinet approved the Coventry Health and Well-being Strategy for 2019-2023.