Issue - meetings

[To receive the Public Health Annual Report for the period 2021-2022]

That the publication of the Director of Public Health Annual Report for the period 2021 – 2022 be approved.

Councillor Jasbir Jaspal presented the Annual Report from the Director of Public Health for the period 2021-2022 and highlighted salient points. She also placed on record her thanks to the Director of Public Health and his public health team for their exceptional work over the last two and a half years during the Covid pandemic. She also thanked the Council’s Directors and teams across the council for the way they all come together as one council, working together during the pandemic, and the city’s partners, the Clinical Commissioning Group, New Cross Hospital, the care homes, schools, businesses and the city’s communities for the way they all rose to the challenge and came together to overcome the Covid pandemic.

Councillor Jaspal also informed Cabinet that the Annual Report was dedicated to the memory of Ross Jervis, Director of Public Health for the Council from April 2014 to July 2017, who sadly passed away in June 2022. 

Resolved:

That the publication of the Director of Public Health Annual Report for the period 2021 – 2022 be approved.