Health and Wellbeing Board

The Health and Wellbeing Board was established following agreement by Newcastle City Council on 11 January 2023. Prior to that date it was previously known as the City Futures Board and Wellbeing for Life Board.   Terms of reference of the Health and Wellbeing Board   The responsibilities of the statutory Health and Wellbeing Board required to be established by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Delegations:

1. To encourage integrated working between persons who arrange for the provision of any health or social care services for Newcastle, in order to advance the health and wellbeing of people in the city.
2. To provide such advice, assistance or other support as it thinks appropriate for the purpose of encouraging the making of arrangements under section 75 of the National Health Service Act 2006 in connection with the provision of health and social care services.
3. To encourage persons who arrange for the provision of any health related services in Newcastle to work closely with the Board.
4. To encourage persons who arrange for the provision of any health or social care services, and persons who arrange for the provision of any health-related services, in Newcastle to work closely together.
5. To lead the development of the Newcastle Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
6. To jointly develop the Health and Wellbeing Strategy (which will incorporate statutory Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy requirements), which is a duty of Newcastle City Council and the Integrated Care Board.
7. To give the Council its opinion on whether the authority, in exercising its functions, is having regard to the JSNA and the JHWS.
8. To act as the inter-sectoral steering group for local work in relation to the World Health Organisation European Healthy City Network.