This paper seeks to look at proposals in the Health and Social Care Bill for the establishment of health and wellbeing boards.
The paper looks at one part of the Health and Social Care Bill, the provisions in Chapter 2 of Part 5 relating to the establishment and functions of health and wellbeing boards.
The paper considers the functions of health and wellbeing boards, particularly in relation to encouraging integrated working, and suggests that the proposed legislation does not yet clearly spell out what steps the boards should take to encourage integrated working or how commissioners of services should be encouraged to work more closely together.
This paper offers a legal perspective on the possible establishment of health and wellbeing boards.
