Lewisham's (Shadow) Health and Wellbeing Board

The Government’s Health and Social Care Bill, currently making its way through parliament, will make it a statutory obligation for every local authority area to have a health and wellbeing board. Boards will have responsibility for integrating health and social care, developing a local Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, a joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and ensuring that services are commissioned to meet the needs and priorities identified within these two documents.

Lewisham has convened a Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board. The Board is chaired by Sir Steve Bullock and brings together stakeholders from across health and social care, including representatives from Lewisham’s GP Consortium Pathfinder, Lewisham’s Local Involvement Network (LINk) and Voluntary Action Lewisham.  

The Shadow Board will be responsible for developing Lewisham’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and its joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy. It will support the development of Lewisham’s GP Consortium Pathfinder and Lewisham’s HealthWatch Pathfinder and help to develop how the partnership will work when Health and Wellbeing Boards become statutory. 

Meetings of the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board are public and everyone is welcome to attend and observe the meeting. Information on the Board will soon be available via the Lewisham Strategic Partnership website - www.lewishamstrategicpartnership.org.uk. In the meantime, papers and dates of future meetings are available on request.

See attachment below for a presentation giving details of this board.