Committee details

The Health and Wellbeing Board comprises of:

The Executive Councillor for NHS Liaison and Community Engagement;

The Executive Councillor for Adult Care, Health and Children's Services;

The Executive Councillor for Culture and Emergency Services;

Five further county councillors;

The Director of Public Health;

The Executive Director of Children's Services;

The Executive Director of Adult Care and Community Wellbeing;

A designated representative from each Clinical Commissioning Group in Lincolnshire;

A designated representative from the NHS Commissioning Board;

One designated district council representative;

A designated representative of Healthwatch;

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire;

The Chairman of the Lincolnshire Co-ordination Board.

The functions of the Health and Wellbeing Board are:

To encourage persons who arrange for the provision of any health and social care services in the area to work in an integrated manner;

To provide such advice, assistance or other support as it thinks appropriate for the purpose of encouraging joint commissioning;

To prepare and publish a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment;

To prepare and publish a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy

The meetings are usually held quarterly, at 2.00 p.m., in Committee Room One, County Offices, Newland, Lincoln, LN1 1YL (unless otherwise stated).  The meetings are generally open to the public, unless otherwise specified.

The full terms of reference for the Health and Wellbeing Board are set out in Part 2 of the Council's Constitution.