Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of the Director of Public Health’s Annual Public Health Report (APHR) for 2018/19. The report stated that this edition of the APHR focused on mental wellbeing across the life course in Medway:

·         Key information about what is known about the wellbeing of Medway’s residents at different stages in the life course (young people, adults of working age and older people).

·         Information about services, support and community assets in Medway that support residents to achieve and maintain good mental wellbeing.

·         Ways in which local people, communities, schools, workplaces and health and care professionals can improve their mental wellbeing.

·         Recommendations for future actions for partners to further improve mental wellbeing among Medway’s population.

·         An update on progress against recommendations in the 2017-19 Director of Public Health’s Annual Report on Health Protection.

The report stated that the main focus of the APHR was mental wellbeing (mental health promotion at a population level) rather than mental illness and its treatment.

The APHR had been considered by the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 15 October 2019 and the Health and Wellbeing Board on 5 November 2019, details of which were set out in sections 5 and 6 of the report.

Reasons:

There is a statutory duty for Directors of Public Health to produce an Annual Report and Local Authorities to publish the report.