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North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board
Bringing partners together to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across North Yorkshire.
The North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board brings together leaders from health, care, local government, communities and the voluntary sector to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across North Yorkshire.
The Board provides strategic leadership across the system, helping partners understand local needs, agree shared priorities and support action that improves outcomes for residents and communities.
Our ambition
The Board's ambition is to reduce the gap in life expectancy, increase healthy life expectancy and reduce differences in health outcomes across North Yorkshire.
Through partnership working, the Board supports a shared approach to improving health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities across the county.
What does the Board do?
- Understand local health and wellbeing needs.
- Identify shared priorities for improvement.
- Support partnership action across the system.
- Promote joined-up working between organisations.
- Encourage action on the wider factors that influence health and wellbeing.
- Oversee delivery of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Key responsibilities
As a statutory committee of North Yorkshire Council, the Health and Wellbeing Board has responsibility for three important documents that help shape health and wellbeing priorities across North Yorkshire.
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) – understanding the current and future health and wellbeing needs of North Yorkshire's population.
- Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWBS) – setting shared priorities and ambitions for improving health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities.
- Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) – assessing whether local pharmaceutical services meet the needs of North Yorkshire's communities.
Together these help provide the evidence, priorities and strategic direction that support partnership action across North Yorkshire.
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Board Membership, Meetings and Papers
