The board provides community leadership for health and social care to support the work done by individual organisations and people working together improve the overall health, well-being and social care of the residents of the Isle of Wight.
The board brings together the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to ensure that responsibilities and actions for delivering health and social care priorities (as defined nationally and locally). It also provides a governing body for the performance management of services, change and the commissioning of resources.
Public involvement in the board through patient and service user representatives and the voluntary and community sector, will ensure that the board is well informed and challenged as well as being properly scrutinised by non-professionals.
They are the responsible body for the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and all of the Eco Island health and social care objectives. The board reports directly to the Island Strategic Partnership (ISP).
People on the Isle of Wight want to stay healthy, active, and as independent as possible. Everyone has a responsibility for their own health and wellbeing; at the same time there is increasing emphasis on the role of the wider community and services. The board will give a lead to working together to promote healthier lives and give support and leadership where it is needed. This includes making sure that certain groups of people can get access to good advice and services. In particular, this means people suffering from long-term illness, people who are vulnerable through age, disability, or isolation and people with difficulties accessing support and services, including those in rural areas.
The board aims to improve health and wellbeing across the Island through using the skills, knowledge and networks of its members to best tackle the inequalities in everyday life. This gives an ever greater role to the voluntary and community sector.
The board will work to give everyone an equal chance of staying healthy, active, and independent for as long as possible. We want to be clear about how best to use resources for prevention, base more services within local communities outside of the hospital and closer to or within homes, joining services at a local level to achieve equal opportunities and eliminating discrimination.
Social, cultural, and sporting activities across all ages and levels will be developed across the Island helping to achieve opportunities for individuals to achieve their potential for their health and well-being.
As the body that must manage and report performance in reaching the Eco island priorities, the board will lead, develop, monitor, and support delivery of all the objectives and priorities through the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and ensure that the JSNA is utilised to inform the LAA and all joint commissioning.
The board will play its part in reducing Carbon emissions by 3% each year.
The health and well-being board values and celebrates the diversity of people on our Island. It recognises the role of the ISP’s vision of being an Island which promotes and supports safety, a thriving economy, and an inspiration to achieve which impacts on the health and well-being of all of the people of the Island.
Headline targets for Inspiring Island can be found here. More actions can be found here.
The terms of reference for the health and wellbeing partnership board give information about its role, structure, intentions, membership and links with the wider Island. The terms of reference can be found by clicking here.
If you would like to comment on Eco Island or would like more information, please email info@eco-island.org.uk or visit the Eco Island contacts page.
