Issue - meetings

The Board received and noted the Health Protection Annual Report which provided assurance on behalf of the Director of Public Health and the Health and Wellbeing Board in respect of deliver of the local health protection function in Southampton

The Board noted that the Health Protection Board was a key mechanism for facilitating partnership working.  The Health Protection Board had captured learning from the COVID response and found that partnership working in Southampton was particularly strong and the quality of communications regarding rapid changes in national or regional strategy was one of the biggest challenges for the delivery of the local response to the pandemic.  Southampton City Council’s Health Protection Team had supported numerous incidents, situations and enquiries over the last twelve months including the COVID enquiry.  The Board noted that the Southampton Health Protection Dashboard was very useful.