Agenda

To receive apologies for inability to attend the meeting (if any).

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Board held on 22 February 2024.

To consider outstanding actions from previous meeting(s).

To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any personal, disclosable pecuniary or other registrable interests in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

The following are considered to be standing declarations applicable to all Health and Wellbeing Board meetings:

·       Councillor Alan Macro – Governor of Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and West Berkshire Council representative on the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Partnership;

·       Councillor Janine Lewis – Governor of Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; and

·       Councillor Jo Stewart – spouse is Head of Contract Management at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board to answer questions submitted by members of the public in accordance with the Meeting Rules contained in the Council’s Constitution.

Councillors or Members of the public may present any petition which they have received.

Purpose: To agree any changes to Health and Wellbeing Board membership.

Purpose: To endorse the establishment of a Berkshire West Health Protection and Resilience Partnership Board to provide assurance that robust arrangements are in place to protect the health of residents across Berkshire West (West Berkshire, Wokingham, Reading).

Purpose: To provide an update on the Berkshire Suicide Prevention Strategy.

Purpose: To provide an update on plans for the redevelopment of the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

Purpose: To update the Health and Wellbeing Board on the collective response to the impact on residents in West Berkshire of the rise in the cost of living and consider how we build upon the response so far.

Purpose: To note the contents of the new Health and Wellbeing Board Dashboard.

Purpose: To update on progress in implementing the actions set out in West Berkshire’s Delivery Plan, focusing on the fourth and fifth priorities to: 'Promote good mental health and wellbeing for all children and young people', and 'Promote good mental health and wellbeing for all adults'.

Purpose: To note the BCF quarterly monitoring report for Q3 2023/24.

Purpose: To provide details of recent and planned changes to pharmaceutical services in West Berkshire and advise the Health and Wellbeing Board on the implications for the West Berkshire Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.

Purpose: To provide a summary of recent activities and future actions for each of the Health and Wellbeing Board Sub-Groups.

Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board to answer questions submitted by Councillors in accordance with the Meeting Rules contained in the Council’s Constitution.

Purpose: An opportunity for Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board to suggest items to go on to the Forward Plan.

11 July 2024

12 September 2024

5 December 2024

6 March 2025

8 May 2025

(All meetings to start at 9:30am)

Transcription of questions and answers from the meeting.