The Public Health Strategic Commissioning & Support Senior Manager introduced the report of the Director of Public Health which outlined Wirral’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment current position and workplan. It was reported that Health and Wellbeing Boards have a statutory duty to oversee the production of a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, which was a process to identify the current and future health and wellbeing needs of a population in a local authority area.

The Board received a presentation which outlined how the data and intelligence was stored by Wirral Intelligence Service and how it could be found and interrogated to better understand the needs of Wirral, including its use in the Covid-19 response.

Resolved – That

(1)  the Health and Wellbeing Board provides oversight for the annual Joint Strategic Needs Assessment workplan and supports the development of a workplan for 2022/23 focussed on the wider determinants of health and reducing health inequalities.

(2)  the Health and Wellbeing Board contributes to the production of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment to ensure all partners are working collectively in Wirral using the same intelligence to support joint decision making.