Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of the Director of Public Health’s Annual Public Health Report (APHR) for 2022/23. The report advised that Directors of Public Health had a duty to produce an Annual Public Health Report. The aim of the Annual Public Health Report was to identify issues that currently, or had the potential to, impact on the health or wellbeing of the local authority’s population. Directors of Public Health were tasked with making recommendations to address identified issues.

The 2022/2023 report stated that this edition of the APHR focused on the challenge and benefits that could be gained from investing more effort into community engagement and the development of local networks. It provided examples of successful outcomes in terms of physical and emotional health and wellbeing for local people through this approach.

The APHR had been considered by the Health and Wellbeing Board on 15 February 2024, the minutes of which were set out in the report and was also due to be considered by the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 18 June 2024.

Reasons:

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