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Chair's Communications
The Chair of the Board will start the meeting with a short update on recent developments on health and wellbeing.
Minutes:
25.1 The Chair gave the following communications:
It’s exciting to be asked to be the Chair of the Health & Wellbeing Board. I’m looking forward to getting to know my fellow board members over the coming weeks and months.
Like everyone on the board, I am committed to reducing the health inequalities that exist in our city. It’s only by partners working closely together that we’re going to tackle the problems we have.
I am particularly interested in 2 aspects of health and care improvement: firstly, what we can do as a system to move from a model that focuses on treating people in crisis to one that intervenes earlier to prevent ill health. And secondly, how partners can work together to support independence, giving people the help they need to live good quality independent lives.
It's good to see that the reports we’re looking at today have a real focus on prevention and on supporting independence, and it will be really interesting for me to find out more about how the system is working to deliver these aims.