To receive Report No.229/2018 from the Director of Public Health.

Report No.229/2018 was received from the Director of Public Health.

Mr Mike Sandys introduced the report the purpose of which was to seek approval by the Rutland Health and Wellbeing Board of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) 2018. The attached chapters to the report had been amended in light of comments from the Board and other stakeholders.

During discussion the following points were noted:

·         Work was taking place on a Military Health Needs Assessment which would be incorporated into the main JSNA in due course. Initially the needs assessment would be done on serving personnel and their dependents with veterans being added later in the year.

·         Healthwatch were conducting a separate survey looking at veterans’ health needs. The information gathered from this would be used in the Military Health Needs Assessment as the work progressed.

AGREED:

1.    The Health and Wellbeing Board Members agreed and APPROVED the publication of the Rutland JSNA 2018 by the end of December 2018.