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Health & Wellbeing Board

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Wirral's Health & Wellbeing Board (HWBB) provides oversight, strategic direction and coordination of the range of local partnership approaches while the partners set out to directly commission services. Also the HWBB seeks to:

  • Develop a shared understanding of the needs of the local community through the development of an agreed Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 

  • Meet those needs through leading on the on going development of a Health & Wellbeing Strategy 

  • Provide a local governance structure for local planning and accountability of health and wellbeing related outcomes

Wirral's Health and Wellbeing Board use the Wirral Plan 2026 as their collective and collaborative response to the locally identified needs. 
Wirral Health & Wellbeing Board papers can be accessed on the Local Authority website.

Wirral Health & Wellbeing Board - Terms of Reference and the Memorandum of Understanding both identify links to Wirral JSNA.  


Also consider

Wirral's first Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy (2013 to 2015)
This was the first Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Wirral. It set out the overarching framework that describes how the public, private and voluntary sectors will work together with Wirral residents. This joint work would look to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. The Health and Wellbeing Board strategy provides a basis for the commissioning of health, social care and wellbeing services in Wirral.

Previous information related to the development of local Health & Wellbeing Boards