North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Board

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires the Council to establish a Health and Wellbeing Board for its area, to encourage the improvement and integration of working of Health and Social Care for North Yorkshire.   Other core functions are:   ·        To promote integration and partnership across the Council’s area including promoting joined up commissioning plans across the NHS Social Care and Public Health ·        To support joint commissioning and pooled budgets ·        To assess the needs of the population in the Council’s area and lead the statutory Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy