Health and Wellbeing Board

The vision, principles, goals and purpose of the Thurrock Health and Wellbeing Board are outlined below. Our Vision: The Board’s Vision of Levelling the Playing Field aims to tackle the many causes of poor health that are not level across Thurrock such as individuals’ health risk behaviours including smoking and the quality of clinical care that people receive.  The greatest influences on overall community health are wider determinants of health. These include high-quality education, access to employment and other opportunities, warm and safe homes, access to green spaces and leisure, strong and resilient communities and effective public protection. Thurrock experiences an unlevel playing field in each of these areas and the Health and Wellbeing Strategy aims to level up those inequities.   Our Principles:

Reducing inequality in health and wellbeing Prevention is better than cure Empowering people and communities Connected services Our commitments will be delivered Continually improving service delivery Continuing to establish clear links between health and education services, improving accessibility for all      Purpose: to improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities in health and wellbeing to develop and facilitate the delivery of transitional arrangements to meet statutory requirements within the emerging health agenda to determine the health improvement priorities in Thurrock to oversee the development and implementation of Thurrock’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy   The board is chaired by the Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing and has a combination of Membership, constituting of Elected Members, Directors of various service areas of Thurrock Council, and representatives from NHS Thurrock Alliance, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Thurrock North East London Foundation Trust, Essex Partnership University Trust, Health Watch Thurrock, Thurrock CVS, Essex Police, Thurrock Community Safety Partnership Board and the Adult Safeguarding Partnership   This meeting is open to the public, although in considering some items of business, the press and public may be requested to leave the meeting.