Wellbeing for Life

On this page:

Who are we?

What we do together

The groups that help us

Our meeting dates and papers

News

Who to contact

Who are we?

Our Chair

• Meng Khaw, Director of Public Health for Newcastle, Newcastle Primary Care Trust and Newcastle City Council

Other members

• Helen Lamont, Head of Nursing, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Damien Robson, Associate Director for Public Health, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
• Helen Golightly, Corporate Programme Manager, Environment and Regeneration Directorate, Newcastle City Council
• Dianne Tabari, Clinical Director, Newcastle and North Tyneside Community Health
• Judith MacMorran, Delivery Lead, Smoke Free Newcastle
• Helen Pearson, Delivery Lead, Active Newcastle Partnership
• Jean Adams, FUSE, University of Newcastle
• Tony Durcan, Head of Culture Libraries and Lifelong Learning, Adult and Culture Directorate, Newcastle City Council

• Chris Drinkwater holds one of the two places for the voluntary and community sector.  The second place is currently vacant

People who are in routine attendance at our meetings

• Liz Robinson, Alcohol Strategy Coordinator, Wellbeing and Health Partnership
• Helen Wilding, Wellbeing and Health Partnership Coordinator
• Roger Mould, Partnership, Policy and Project Officer, Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service

What we do together?

We provide strategic leadership to ensure that adults in Newcastle have a healthy lifestyle and avoid risky behaviours in order to prevent ill-health and promote wellbeing.  

 We work to understand issues in relation to adult lifestyle in Newcastle and prioritise where developments need to be made.  We are working to ensure a cohesive approach to addressing issues that are necessary to the success of work with regards to all individual lifestyle behaviours.  Examples include prioritising those communities of geography, interest or identity that experience health inequalities; workforce development; health literacy; social marketing; community engagement.

For further information on our role, please see our Terms of Reference.

The groups that help us

We share our Delivery Group arrangements with the Childrens Trust's Be Healthy Partnership as the groups work across all age ranges.  The Delivery Groups are:

• Smoke Free Newcastle - which plans and delivers Newcastle's Tobacco Control Strategy
• Active Newcastle Partnership - which focusses on helping people in getting active
• Sexual Health group - which leads on interventions to promote safe sex
• Eat Well Newcastle - which has responsibilities around food, nutrition and the availability of healthy food

Our meeting dates and papers

Please click on the date below for the meeting you would like the minutes for, or to view the upcoming agendas where this is already available. 

Date	Time
15 July 2010	1pm - 3pm
2 September 2010	1pm - 3pm
7 October 2010   (Cancelled)	1pm - 3pm
25 November 2011	1pm - 3pm
13 January 2011	1pm - 3pm
3 March 2011	1pm - 3pm
28 April 2011	1pm - 3pm
9 June2011	1pm - 3pm
14 July 2011	1pm - 3pm
25 August 2011	1pm - 3pm
6 October 2011	1pm - 3pm
17 November 2011	1pm - 3pm

If you are interested in observing Healthy Lifestyle Strategic Board meetings, or any other meeting, you are welcome to do so, although we would prefer prior arrangement is made.  Find out more on this on our FAQs page.

News

October 2010 news

December 2010 news

February 2011 news

April 2011 news

August 2011 news

December 2011 news

Who to contact

For all queries about Healthy Lifestyles Strategic Board, please contact Helen Wilding at helen.wilding@newcastle.gov.uk.  Alternatively, for general enquiries, you can contact us at wellbeing@newcastle.gov.uk