Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Public Health

The Board considered the report of the Director of Public Health which presented examples of actions that had been taken by Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board, Public Health Team, and partners.

Further to Minute No. 89 of the meeting held on 8 March 2023, the report incorporated further recommendations from the latest Public Health Annual Report; and advised that, recently, the annual report of the Chief Medical Officer for England had been published which also focused on ‘Health in an Ageing Society’ and emphasised very similar priorities.

The Public Health Annual Report combined evidence-based health information and data, and the voices of senior residents to capture a more balanced, nuanced, and positive view of ageing. The main chapters of the report were:

·       Talking about ageing

·       Sefton’s population

·       Health of older adults

·       Prevention and healthy ageing

·       Living Well

The Board discussed the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis and isolation on Sefton’s Ageing population, the implications of being a coastal borough and complex lives.

The Board thanked the report authors for their report.

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