The Board to receive the Healthy Weight Plan.

Sarah Ogilvie, Specialist Registrar in Public Health provided the Board with an update on Plymouth’s Healthy Lives for Healthy Weight Action Plan (draft).  It was reported that the aim of the action plan was to enable all Plymouth citizens to achieve and maintain healthy lives for healthy weight.  To achieve this, the action plan has 4 strategic aims:

·                     to build a strategic, sustainable and city-wide approach to promoting healthy lives for healthy weight;

·                     to create and develop active, health promoting environments where we live, play, learn and work;

·                     to give all children the best start and support the achievement of healthy lives for healthy weight in their families and communities;

·                     to ensure effective prevention, identification, early intervention and management of obesity in children and adults.

In response to questions raised, it was reported that the action plan was still very much in a draft format.  They were in the process of developing a framework looking at how they work with a wide range of community groups. 

Agreed that the Health and Wellbeing Board -

1.         Note progress and support further development of the Action Plan and fit with the Health and Wellbeing Board’s Strategic Priority 2 (‘Healthy Weight’).

2.         Are asked to provide feedback on the plan regarding significant omissions or suggested edits.

3.         Receive a final draft of the Healthy Weight Plan for the Board to review at a future meeting.