The Director of Public Health has a duty to provide an annual report on the health of the local population. The report generally focuses on a specific topic, highlighting issues and outlining the work underway to reduce health inequalities. It also contains recommendations to improve the health of people in North Yorkshire.
Director of Public Health annual report 2024 to 2025 - 'Working together for North Yorkshire
In this year’s annual report, Director of Public Health Louise Wallace focuses on the power of partnership working to improve the health of the population of North Yorkshire and reduce health inequalities.
Read the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2024 to 2025 (pdf / 5 MB)
The report explores the benefits of Local Government Reorganisation to simplify cross-functional working, the role of wider partnership working, and the synergy achieved through collaboration and shared objectives.
Beginning with an overview of North Yorkshire and the role of Public Health, including the peer review undertaken earlier this year, it then focuses on partnership working and the difference it makes in four main chapters:
- Working with other council teams and functions.
- Working with wider system partnerships.
- Working with community partnerships and people.
- Working through the innovative use of public health funding.
Each chapter is shaped around examples of collaboration from Public Health colleagues and other teams, with personal reflections and practice examples to help tell the story.
The report provides recommendations for Public Health and the wider system, and an update on the recommendations from the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2023 to 2024: ‘Live, Age, Engage: healthy ageing in North Yorkshire’.
Previous Director of Public Health annual reports
Read the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2023 to 2024 (pdf / 10 MB)
Read the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2023 (pdf / 20 MB)
Read the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2022 (pdf / 4 MB)
Read the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2021 (pdf / 5 MB)