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West Midlands Excellence in Public Health Conference 2012 takes place on Tuesday, 24th April 2012 at The Holte Suite, Aston Villa Football Club

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Health and Well Being Boards

A short guide to health and wellbeing boards

This briefing provides an outline on what health and wellbeing boards are; what they will do; when they will be established; the make-up of the boards; and support which is available to the boards.

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Posted: Tuesday, 6th March 2012

JSNA and joint health and wellbeing strategies explained

The Department published on 6th December 2012, a concise, high-level narrative on the JSNA and joint health and wellbeing strategies.

JSNA and joint health and wellbeing strategies explained aims to support those health and wellbeing boards who want to move at pace. This will help the NHS, local government and emerging health and wellbeing boards to plan ahead of the publication of statutory guidance due in January 2012.

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Posted: Thursday, 8th December 2011

Health Inequalities

The Centre for Public Scrutiny has published Peeling the onion, learning, tips and tools from the Health Inequalities Scrutiny Programme. The report studies the potential of scrutiny in better understanding local health concerns and sets out to demonstrate the active and vital role that it can have in helping Councils and their partners narrow gaps in health inequalities.

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Posted: Wednesday, 30th November 2011

New partnerships, new opportunities

Resources to assist setting up and running health and wellbeing boards, developed by the Department of Health and the Local Government Group.
Posted: Monday, 31st October 2011

Health and wellbeing boards: Making them work

The King's Fund Information and Library Service produces a monthly bulletin focused around Health and Wellbeing Boards. It will contain the latest news, guidance and policy developments and will be useful for anyone interested in or working with health and wellbeing boards.

If you would like to subscribe, please email HWB@kingsfund.org.uk. For further details please see the Health and wellbeing boards: Making them work current projects page on the King's Fund site.

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Posted: Monday, 24th October 2011

Health & Wellbing Boards - Board Assurance Prompt and Maturity Matrix

This briefing is targeted at those developing Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBBs), or who need to understand and work with HWBBs in the future. It is intended to support informed debate as the precise form and role of HWBBs emerge, and to encourage local health and social care economies to lay the foundations for better partnership working.

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Posted: Friday, 9th December 2011

Health and Wellbeing Boards

View the report (Adobe Acrobat Document [67.1 Kb])
Posted: Thursday, 18th August 2011

Health and Well-Being Briefing Papers

This series of eight briefing papers has been produced by the Regional Public Health Group, as a legacy of the extensive range of work done to date across the West Midlands. These briefing papers are aimed at local authorities and other local partners in the West Midlands and have been developed using best available national and local evidence and guidance. Local case studies are included which demonstrate good and effective current practice in support of the Public Health role of Local Government.
Posted: Tuesday, 28th June 2011