Issue - meetings

[To receive the Wolverhampton Public Health Annual Report 2020-2021 - Covid-19: Respond, Protect and Relight]

That the publication of the Director of Public Health Annual Report for the period 2020 – 2021 be approved.

Councillor Jasbir Jaspal introduced the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2020-2021. She said the Annual Report commemorated the horrendous year of the Covid-19 and celebrated the work that had gone on to fight the pandemic. It thanked the many organisations, services, teams and volunteers across the Council and the city, coming together working to fight the pandemic.  It had left some lasting physical, mental, social and economic impacts on the city’s population and through the strengthened partnerships and coordinated efforts would relight the city in setting priorities on  mental health and wellbeing, physical activity, housing particularly variation in the quality of the city’s private rental sector and influencing access to and the quality of healthcare in  the city going forward.

Lynsey Kelly, Head of Communities (Public Health) and Neeraj Malhotra, Consultant in Public Health endorsed the summary from Councillor Jaspal, particularly the collective effort in responding to Covid and making use of the way we worked together in partnership, as a springboard to address other inequalities in health and the lasting impacts of Covid on the city’s population.

Cabinet placed on record its heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in the massive team effort of the city’s response to the pandemic, through the support, guidance or advice they gave to the city’s residents and businesses.

Resolved:

That the publication of the Director of Public Health Annual Report for the period 2020 – 2021 be approved.