The Joint Director of Public Health reported upon the proposed revised governance arrangements for the Wirral Health & Wellbeing Partnership following the I&DeA Healthy Communities Peer Review in April 2008. The partnership was responsible for the health and wellbeing and healthy communities themes within the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP), the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and the Sustainable Communities Strategy and she reported that the Healthy Communities Peer Review team had described relationships between Wirral’s key players as ‘strong and maturing’, with the development of integrated working arrangements between the Council and the Primary Care Trust being seen as particularly innovative.

However, the review recommended that the governance arrangements for health and wellbeing should be ‘sharpened’ to take account of the maturity of partnership working and to make best use of strategic capacity. Accordingly, a review of governance arrangements had been undertaken and a revised partnership structure was presented for consideration.

Resolved – That the revised governance arrangements for the Health & Wellbeing Partnership be agreed.