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Hertfordshire & West Essex Integrated Care Partnership - Tuesday, 17 December 2024 2.00 pm

December 17, 2024 View on council website
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Summary

The Hertfordshire & West Essex Integrated Care Partnership will meet to discuss the Essex Healthy Weight Strategy and their pledges on childhood obesity. The partnership will also receive an update on the NHS's 10-year plan.

Essex Healthy Weight Strategy

The meeting will include the Essex Healthy Weight Strategy for discussion. The strategy sets out how partners will work together to make it easier for people living in Essex to maintain a healthy weight, and to reduce levels of obesity.

This strategy is a call to action. The scale of the challenge should not lead to inertia, but instead to collective, sustained and urgent action, as we have seen for other major preventable conditions, such as smoking and teenage pregnancy.

(Page 5, Essex Healthy Weight Strategy)

The meeting will also receive a presentation on the strategy.

Hertfordshire & West Essex Integrated Care Partnership's Childhood Obesity Pledges

The meeting will discuss the Partnership's pledges to address childhood obesity in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

The pledges cover four themes:

  • giving every child a healthy weight start in life
  • creating healthy environments for children, young people and families
  • building healthy weight messaging across the system
  • providing access to support services.

The meeting will receive an update on progress made against the pledges made in March 2023 and will consider next steps to ensure the pledges are delivered.

NHS 10 Year Plan

The meeting will receive an update on the NHS's 10-year plan.

The Partnership will be asked to note the ongoing consultation on the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan1. The meeting will also discuss the Partnership's response to the consultation on the NHS's operational planning guidance. The operational planning guidance sets out how the NHS will deliver on its commitments in the next financial year.

The partnership will consider the implications of the guidance for their work.

Government Food Strategy

The meeting will be asked to note the Government Food Strategy2, published in June 2022.


  1. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out how the NHS will recruit and retain the staff it needs to deliver care over the next 15 years. It is currently under consultation.  

  2. The Government Food Strategy sets out a plan to create a more sustainable and resilient food system. It was published following an independent review of the food system by Henry Dimbleby. 

Attendees

Jonathan Ash-Edwards Hertfordshire Police & Crime Commissioner
Chris Badger Hertfordshire County Council
Tina Bhartwas North Hertfordshire Distrct Council
Georgina Blakemore West Essex District Councils
Charlotte Blizzard-Welch VCSFE Alliance - Hertfordshire
Paul Burstow Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB
Amanda Cherry Healthwatch Essex
Matthew Coats Herts NHS Provider Representative
Toni Coles West Essex Health Care Partnership
Sharon Davies Hertfordshire Care Providers Association
Sharn Elton East & North Herts Health & Care Partnership
Jo Fisher Hertfordshire County Council
Jane Fleming Essex County Council
Alex Green Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Jane Halpin Herts & West Essex ICB
Waheed Khan Essex Police
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Tony Kingsbury  (Conservative)
Joanna Marovitch VCFSE Alliance - Hertfordshire
Chris Martin Essex County Council
Sarah Perman Hertfordshire County Council
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Richard Roberts  Leader, Conservative Group •  (Conservative)
Kate Robson VSFSE Alliance - Essex
Councillor John Spence Essex County Council Health and Wellbeing Board
Jeff Stack Broxbourne Borough Council
Karen Taylor Herts NHS Provider Representative
Neil Tester Healthwatch Hertfordshire
Katherine Thompson Essex County Council
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Fiona Thomson  Deputy Leader, Conservative Group •  (Conservative)
Wendy Wills University of Hertfordshire

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