Sheffield’s Health and
Wellbeing Board is a group of local GPs, local councillors, a representative of Sheffield
citizens, and senior managers in the NHS and the local authority,
all of whom seek to make local government and local health services
better for local people and to deliver a single approach to
improving the health and wellbeing of Sheffield
residents.
The
Board has a formal public meeting, normally four times per year,
interspersed with engagement events and
strategy development meetings.
Attending Meetings/Public
Questions
There is an opportunity for members of the
public to ask questions of the Board under the agenda item
‘Public Questions’.
The arrangements for dealing with questions
and petitions at meetings of the Board which are held remotely are
as follows:-
- If you wish to ask a question or
present a petition at the meeting, you must submit the
question/petition in writing at least 2 clear days in advance of
the date of the meeting, by email to the following
address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk.
For meetings held on a Thursday, questions/petitions will need to
be received by 9.00 a.m. on the Tuesday of that week.
- The Chair of the meeting has
discretion as to how questions and petitions are presented at the
meeting and as to whether you are invited to ask your question, or
whether they are read out at the meeting. A response to the
question or petition will be given by the appropriate Board
Member. If you are not able to attend the meeting, your
question/petition may be referred to the appropriate Board Member,
and an answer/response will be provided to you.
- Where a submitted question or petition cannot be
answered because of a technological failure, if time does not
allow, or where a Board Member undertakes to provide a written
answer/response, the written answer/response will be provided to
you and will be published on the Council’s
website.
Please note that the Chair of the meeting may
not accept petitions or questions which relate to:-
(i) matters not being within the responsibility of
the Local Authority or which affects the City or its inhabitants;
(ii) judicial or
quasi-judicial matters;
(iii) individual
planning/licence/grant applications or appeals;
(iv) named officers
or Members of the Council;
(v) confidential
matters of the type referred to in Schedule 12A to the Local
Government Act, 1972; or
(vi) matters of an
irrelevant, repetitious, defamatory, frivolous or offensive nature or a general misuse of
the opportunity.
Recording is allowed at meetings of the Board
under the direction of the Chair of the meeting. The
protocol on audio/visual recording and photography provides
further information.
