Director of Public Health Update
To receive a verbal update from the
Director of Public Health.
Minutes:
Sam Crowe, Director of Public Health,
provided the Board with his annual report by way of powerpoint presentation, a copy
of which has been appended to these minutes, which focussed on:
- Celebration of 10 years of Public Health in Local Government
- Recovering services
- Partnership working
- Service performance
- Finances
- Outcomes
- Director recommendations.
Officers responded to Board Members’
comments and requests for clarification, details included:
- The Director’s report
would be circulated after the meeting and would also be published with the
minutes. It hadn’t been shared in advance of the meeting as it had only
been finalised the previous day.
- Public Health paid a small
fee to providers within the NHS Healthchecks Scheme for invites delivered,
further payment was offered to those providers where service was
delivered.
- Public Health relied on GP
practices to send out invitations for health checks, but would like to be
able to offer more support. It had not been possible to achieve this
ambition thus far.
- The Director of Public
Health would feedback progress relating to his recommendations as the year
progressed.
Noted.