Issue - meetings
Chair and vice chair update
Meeting: 02/02/2021 - Tower Hamlets Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 1)
Chair and Vice Chair Update
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Minutes:
The Board noted following:
Dr Sam Everington (Vice-Chair):
v Indicated that those items he wished to refer to were included in tonight’s agenda e.g. Covid-19 - latest news with reference to the vaccine programme.
Councillor Rachel Blake (Chair):
v Referred specifically to the Better Care Fund (BCF) and how the Tower Hamlets Together Partnership (THT) works together in terms of the formal 2020 - 2021. It was noted that the current proposal from the national BCF Team is that an end of year review with be submitted by the THT outlining how the pooled budgets had been spent to support health and social care services work in the Borough. Noted that the BCF are well placed to account for how those budgets have been spent and that the future programme will include the winter pressure funding.
Meeting: 17/11/2020 - Tower Hamlets Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 1)
Chair and vice chair update
Additional documents:
Minutes:
Dr Sam Everington (Vice-Chair) provided the Board with the following:
The Board noted that:
- The vote of the Borough’s GP members practices and on the back of a declaration of some noticeably clear principles has seen move towards the merger of the 7 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and the enhancement of the local offer by providing good value for the local population; and
- Tower Hamlets is in the midst of planning Covid vaccination and the message to all is to encourage people to come forward and have the vaccine. All the evidence provided about the vaccine indicates an extremely high chance success and it is important to get this message across to save lives and get everyone's lives back to normal.
Councillor Rachel Blake (Chair) provide the Board with the following:
The Board noted that:
- collectively has won an award from the Local government Chronicle for its work on asthma and how it is helping children to overcome and manage their asthma. The Boards work has demonstrated just how damaging asthma can be you can experience it severely or not severely, but it can really hold you back and the partnership working on Tower Hamlets is something that every Board Member can be proud of and role model for others to follow; and
- The Council has received funding to tackle holiday hunger that through the Christmas and February half term and the theme of child poverty and mental health will come through in some of the topics the Board is considering tonight as it is a key piece of work.