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Patrick Taylor Oxfordshire Mind Health & Wellbeing Board. Three things …. Health & Wellbeing Partnership Board to date Legislation and national plans for Health and Wellbeing Boards So what might happen in Oxfordshire?. 1. Health & Wellbeing Partnership Board to date.
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Three things … • Health & Wellbeing Partnership Board to date • Legislation and national plans for Health and Wellbeing Boards • So what might happen in Oxfordshire?
1. Health & Wellbeing Partnership Board to date
HWPB Strategic Priorities • “Older people & the demographic time bomb” • “Breaking the cycle of deprivation” • “Mental health in adults” • “The rising tide of obesity”
2. Legislation and national plans for Health and Wellbeing Boards
Health and Social Care Bill 2011 • Sees the end of SHA and PCTs • The creation of GP Commissioning Groups now Clinical Commissioning Consortia • Big on choice and competition • Demise of LINk • Creation of HealthWatch • Demise of any NHS trusts not able or willing to become Foundation Trusts
Health & Wellbeing Boards Three main functions • Assess needs • Promote integration • Support joint commissioning
Health & Wellbeing Boards Membership must include • Elected LA representatives • Clinical Commissioning Group • Director of adult social services • Director of childrens services • Director of public health • Healthwatch
Health & Wellbeing Boards Future Forum report makes the case for • Clearer legal status • More power • New duty to involve
3. So what might happen in Oxfordshire?
Oxfordshire Health & Wellbeing Board likely to …. • have statutory powers • be charged with signing off commissioning decisions and holding people to account • formally be a sub committee of the County Council • link with the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group • to involve District Councils as well as County Council • be a smaller group than the current HWPB
Currently still …. Two elected voluntary sector representatives on the HWPB … Lesley Dewhurst, OXHOP LesleyDewhurst@oxhop.org.uk Patrick Taylor. Oxfordshire Mind patrick.taylor@oxfordshire-mind.org.uk