Agenda item

The Board received a presentation concerning New Opportunities, the Director of Public Health Annual Report for Sheffield 2013 by Dr Jeremy Wight, the Director of Public Health. He outlined statistical information regarding life expectancy and the effect on life expectancy of factors including disability and inequality. The presentation also summarised the 11 recommendations for public health, which corresponded with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

In terms of the process by which the recommendations could be incorporated within the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, there was a fit with the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). The new aspects in the Director of Public Health’s report could be included in the JSNA and the Health and Wellbeing Strategy adapted accordingly.

The recommendations in the report were focussed upon public health in the Council. It was noted that a presentation on the Annual Report had also been made to the City Council and the Clinical Commissioning Group.

RESOLVED: that the information contained in the Director of Public Health Report for Sheffield 2013 and, in particular, the eleven recommendations for improving public health, which are based on an analysis of the new opportunities that now exist as a result of the transfer of public health leadership to the Council, be noted.

Reasons for the decision:

1.    It is good practice for Director of Public Health reports to contain recommendations aimed at improving the health of the population.

2.    Recommendations have been made in areas where there is particular scope to improve the health of the people of Sheffield through combining public health expertise with the scale and outreach of the City Council.