Issue - meetings

AGREED that Cabinet:

a)          approve and adopt the Newark & Sherwood Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2026; and

b)          approve the detailed Health Improvement Action Plan to be endorsed by the Strategic Health Partnership and the Portfolio Holder for Homes & Health. 

The Portfolio Holder for Homes & Health presented a report which sought approval to adopt the Newark & Sherwood Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2026. The Council had previously adopted a Health & Wellbeing Partnership Plan 2019-2022 which outlined its commitment to delivering the aims and objectives of Nottinghamshire’s Health & Wellbeing Strategy 2018-2022. 

The County Council had recently agreed and shared their new Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy 2022-26, so in line with this, the Council have developed a new strategy which sets out how the Council proposed to ‘Improve the health and wellbeing of our local residents’, one of the Community Plan objectives. The proposed Newark & Sherwood Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2026 was attached as an appendix to the report.

One of the key emphasis within the Strategy was the difference in life expectancy across the District. The Strategy set out how the Council would work to address this with a variety of agencies and key partners.

AGREED (unanimously) that Cabinet:

a)          approve and adopt the Newark & Sherwood Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2026; and

b)          approve the detailed Health Improvement Action Plan to be endorsed by the Strategic Health Partnership and the Portfolio Holder for Homes & Health. 

Reasons for Decision

To ensure that the Council and its partners have a strategy that drives health and wellbeing improvements across the district.