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Council welcomes health announcement

Posted on 19/01/11

Leicestershire Councty CouncilCabinet Office

19 January 2011

Council welcomes health announcement

The leader of Leicestershire County Council has welcomed today's Government announcement on health service reform.

A health and well-being board will be set up in Leicestershire in April, to bring together the NHS, the county council and other bodies to improve health services.

Council leader David Parsons said: "A lot of the work we have done in Leicestershire anticipates the kind of changes being brought in by the Health and Social Care Bill and we welcome it.

"Our plans for the work of the health and well being board are to bring partners together to drive a new strategy for health and well being across all parts of the care system in Leicestershire.

"Its a new group of people, operating in a new way, across a new system. The collective knowledge and expertise we have built up about local health and social care needs is substantial.

"We are now bringing it all together in a way which will make a big difference for Leicestershire people we want health care to be more efficient, more effective with better outcomes. That can only happen if local government and health practitioners work together even more closely than we have done before.

Background: the health and well-being board

Leicestershire's health and well-being board will go live in April and builds on a year of closer joint working between the county council and the primary care trust.

It will be made up of representatives from partners including clinical leaders from the two GP consortia, a lead County Council Cabinet Member, adult and children's social care directors, the director of public health and, in due course, the new public accountability body for health, Health Watch.

It aims to benefit the public by encouraging closer joint working and efficiency savings, focusing partners on public health priorities (e.g. smoking and obesity), and boosting democratic oversight of the health service.

Leicestershire has agreed to be one of the first areas to go live, due to its successful record of local partnership working and the Total Place pilot scheme, which involved multi-agency work on tackling drug and alcohol misuse problems.

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