The Director of Public Health introduced the report which provided an update on the Marmot Community Programme, led by Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership and Directors of Public Health, working in partnership with the Institute of Health Equity (IHE), University College London, summarising the key messages and areas for action to achieve progress in reducing inequalities, identified by the Institute of Health Equity in their interim report for Cheshire and Merseyside and which it was reported would be used to shape the Wirral Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The working group previously established by the Board to develop the strategy would consider its length of time, its focus on the wider determinants of health, the inclusion of high level outcome framework indicators to monitor progress and its alignment with partnerships such as the Integrated Care Board, Lifelong Learning and Community Safety Partnership. The Working Group would be meeting frequently over the coming months to enable it to develop this work in time to report back to the Health and Wellbeing Board in June 2022.

Resolved – That the continued development of Wirral’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy, based on the recommendations of the Public Health Annual Report 2021, detailed in Appendix 1, and the findings, recommendations and actions developed by the Institute of Health Equity Marmot Community programme for Cheshire and Merseyside be supported.