Decision details

Public Health Annual Report 2009/2010

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decisions:

The Joint Director of Public Health informed the Cabinet that her last act in her current post was to present her Annual Report for 2009/10.

 

The Annual Report comprised four key documents:

 

  • Health and Wellbeing in Wirral: The Big Picture (2009/10)
  • Wirral Compendium of Health Statistics 2010
  • A Breath of Fresh Air: Reducing Smoking and Tobacco Use in Wirral (2009/10)
  • Health Inequalities Annual Report (April 2010)

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)  the report of the Joint Director of Public Health for 2009/10 be noted and those actions within the Health Inequalities Action Plan be endorsed where the Council can contribute to the achievement of outcomes;

 

(2)  the publication of the recent White Paper on Health, which includes proposals for transferring responsibility for public health from Primary Care Trusts to Local Authorities be noted; and

 

(3)  these proposals be welcomed and officers be instructed to open a dialogue with NHS Wirral for the smooth and efficient transfer of these functions and report back on how the new duties on public health can be integrated into the Council’s governance and management structures.

Report author: Director of Public Health, Policy and Performance

Publication date: 04/10/2010

Date of decision: 23/09/2010

Decided at meeting: 23/09/2010 - Cabinet

Effective from: 12/10/2010

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