Issue - meetings

To consider the attached consultation document from the Worcestershire Well Being Board on the Worcestershire Joint Health and Well Being Strategy.

Councillor M. J. Sherrey presented a consultation from the Worcestershire Health and Well-Being Board on its Joint Health and Well-being Strategy for 2012-15 for the Council’s consideration. She requested that comments on the consultation be forwarded through the Group Leaders to her by 17th August 2012.

Councillor S. P. Shannon commended the document for demonstrating what local authorities could do to help people to live well as the population increasingly lived longer. He noted the references throughout to the growing levels of obesity and asked that a Supplementary Planning Document be prepared for inclusion in the emerging Core Strategy as previously proposed by the Overview and Scrutiny Board to regulate the proliferation of hot-food takeaways in the District. Councillor R. Hollingworth agreed with the comments of Councillor S. P. Shannon on hot-food takeaways and added that the preparation of such a Supplementary Planning Document had not been undertaken previously on the advice of the Government Office for the West Midlands.

Councillor S. J. Baxter referred to the Acute Hospital Services referred to in the report and proposed that there be included within the final document metrics demonstrating issues around accessibility for those visiting patients in hospital.

RESOLVED that the Joint Health and Well-being Strategy  2012-15 be noted and endorsed, subject to the comments in the preamble, above and any further comments provided by Members to the Portfolio Holder by 17th August 2012.