Barnet Integrated Clinical Services
Barnet’s Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) was established under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to act as a forum in which key local leaders from the local health and care system work together to improve the health and wellbeing of their local population. The Board became fully operational on 1 April 2013. It is a formal committee of the local authority charged with promoting greater integration and partnership between bodies from the NHS, public health and local government.
The main statutory duties of the HWB Board are to produce a joint strategic needs assessment and a joint Health and Wellbeing strategy for local population.
Barnet's Health and Wellbeing strategy focuses on prevention, life course approach in everything we do and it tackles wider determinants of health such as employment, housing and education. Specific priorities of the Board and the Strategy are:
- Mental health and wellbeing;
- Healthy Weight;
- Embedding prevention in care closer to home;
- Improving children’s outcomes.