What is the role of Health and Wellbeing Together?

Health and Wellbeing Together is the forum where city partners come together to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community and work towards reducing health inequalities. You can access meeting dates, agendas and papers, including the Board’s Forward Plan here.

Further details about the remit of Health and Wellbeing Together can be found in the Terms of Reference.

Process for asking questions at the Health and Wellbeing Together meetings

Health and Wellbeing Together recognises the importance of providing patients, carers and service users with the opportunity to contribute to shaping health and social care priorities. Provision is therefore made for members of the public to ask a question of the Board in accordance with the guidance below.

Agenda: All Health and Wellbeing Together board meetings have an agenda and supporting papers. These are published five clear working days in advance of the meeting. In addition, a Forward Plan detailing future meeting items is published at each meeting.

Any person who wishes to ask a question is required to notify the clerk to the board by completing the web form below by noon on the eighth working day before the date of the meeting. The name and address of the questioner needs to be provided. No question should exceed 25 words. There is no provision for additional material to be presented alongside the question.

Your request will be considered to ensure that it relates to the agenda and is an appropriate matter for a public question. Questions can be refused for any of the following reasons:

1. does not relate to a matter about which the board has a responsibility or which affects the board
2. is defamatory, frivolous or offensive
3. is substantially the same as a question which has been put at a meeting of the board in the past 6 months
4. requires disclosure of confidential or exempt information
5. questions relating to complaints made under statutory provisions which have not been finally dealt with
6. is a matter subject to litigation or could place the board at risk of litigation.

Following submission of your question you will be contacted by the clerk to confirm if it has been approved and added to the agenda.

If your question is approved, it will be read out to the meeting by the clerk. You are welcome to attend the meeting and observe from the public sitting area, alternatively you can watch the live stream. There will be no provision for supplementary questions.

A maximum of three questions will be allowed per meeting. (Should more than three questions be submitted for one meeting this will be determined on a first come first served basis).

Minutes: A copy of any questions, the name of the person asking the question and the response to the question will be published with the board minutes.

Confidential and exempt items: In accordance with the City of Wolverhampton Constitution members of the public and press will be asked to leave the meeting for any agenda items considered confidential or exempt. You can find out more information about what constitutes a confidential or exempt item in the City of Wolverhampton Constitution.

The agenda will make clear if any items are to be considered confidential or exempt.

Social media: Members of the public may use social media in meetings in adherence with the Protocol for Recording, Filming and Social Media at Meetings as outlined in the City of Wolverhampton Council’s Constitution.

Further information or support is available from Democratic Services

Telephone: 01902 555043
Email: democratic.support@wolverhampton.gov.uk