Committee details
Health and Wellbeing Board
Purpose of committee
The board is a formal
committee of the Council with responsibility for encouraging
integrated commissioning and service delivery across NHS, public
health and local authority services to improve health and wellbeing
outcomes for the local community.
The board is responsible for the development of a Joint Strategic
Needs Assessment (JSNA) with the NHS and for producing a
Joint Health
and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS) for the
borough.
Further details of the board’s role are available in the Terms of Reference in the Council’s Constitution.
Membership is currently drawn from the Council’s Executive, the Islington Clinical Commissioning Group, Islington Healthwatch, NHS England and council officers including, the Director of Public Health and the Corporate Directors of Children’s and Adult Social Services.
Membership
- Councillor Kaya Comer-Schwartz (Chair)
- Councillor Nurullah Turan
- Councillor Michelline Safi Ngongo
- Dr John McGrath
- Clare Henderson
- Emma Whitby Chief Executive, Islington Healthwatch
- Dr Helene Brown Medical Director, NHS England
- Katy Porter Voluntary Sector Representative (Chief Executive, Manor Gardens Welfare Trust)
- Michael Clowes
- Councillor Una O'Halloran (Substitute)
- Councillor Roulin Khondoker (Substitute)
- Councillor Rowena Champion (Substitute)
- Councillor John Woolf (Substitute)
- Councillor Diarmaid Ward (Substitute)
- Councillor Santiago Bell-Bradford (Substitute)
- Charlotte Ashton (Substitute) Islington Deputy Director of Public Health
- Jill Britton (Substitute)
- Laura Eden (Substitute)
- Sarah McDonnell-Davies (Substitute)
- Jennifer Kent (Substitute) Healthwatch Islington
- Dr Hasz Sonigra (Substitute) NHS England Representative
Contact information
Support officer: Thomas French. 020 7527 6568
