Decision Maker: Cabinet

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: Yes

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: January 9, 2025

Purpose: The 2012 Health and Care Act places a statutory duty on upper tier Local Authorities to improve and protect the health of their residents. The Director of Public Health has a statutory duty to produce an annual report about the health of the local population. The content and structure of the report is decided each year by the Director of Public Health, based on key issue of health and wellbeing that would benefit from a focused review. The requirement placed on Isle of Wight Council as the relevant local authority is to publish the report. The focus of this year’s Annual Report from the Director of Public Health is ‘Let’s Make Smoking History’

Content: To note the content of the report, and   To endorse the ambition within the Annual Report which is to envision a future where tobacco use is no longer the norm across the Isle of Wight and to work together to cultivate smokefree cultures, enhance quitting opportunities and work towards achieving the smokefree 2030 ambition of bringing down the Isle of Wight smoking prevalence to 5% and below.