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Director of Public Health Annual Report

Meeting: 29/05/2019 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 6)

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Terri Roche, Director of Public Health, to present

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Minutes:

Terri Roche, Director of Public Health, introduced the 2018 independent annual report.  For the previous 3 years, the annual reports had focussed on the lifecourse; the 2018 report took a new approach and sought to champion the strengths of Rotherham’s local communities and share experiences of what kept its residents healthy, happy and well.

 

The general public had been asked to submit photographs which showed what kept them healthy, happy and well where they lived.  These were then grouped by theme and found that they fell into 2 main themes – community and the environment – as well as capturing all 5 of the ‘five ways to wellbeing’.

 

The 2018 annual report was broken down into chapters on:-

 

-          What does keeping healthy, happy and well in Rotherham mean to you

-          Our communities

-          Five ways to wellbeing

-          What can we do to support health and wellbeing

-          Recommendations

-          What we will do together

-          Progress on last year’s recommendations

 

The key recommendations in the report were:-

 

-          Consider ‘health and wellbeing’ in the wider context of being influenced by everything around us

-          Seek first to understand what is ‘strong’ in our communities and what assets we can build on together to support the health and wellbeing of our residents

 

Discussion ensued on the report and presentation with the following issues raised/clarified:-

 

·           Discussion would take place at the Aim 3 workshop to be held later that day with regard to asset-based training

·           Should there be focus on one issue to maximise the impact?

 

Resolved:-  That the report be noted.