Health & Social Care Task Group

The relative importance of health and social care within and across the border communities calls for examining and determining priorities and helping to make decisions as to the focus for activity and investment. The picture is complex, full of interconnecting factors to do with economics, geography, identity, cultures and behaviours.

Inequalities within the cross-border area are marked; it is often not specific areas that need support and investment but specific groups of people, e.g. migrants in farming villages, single pensioners living in remote rural areas, low income families in rural honey pots, unemployed men in ex-industrial villages, etc. Some of these are needs in cross-border areas rather than needs of cross-border areas and face the same complex challenges of diagnosis, intervention, dosage, etc as their equivalents elsewhere.

The Task Group is developing and promoting closer cross-border working and collaboration specific to health and social care in order to realise the aims of the MoU and oversee subsequent implementation.

For more details, notes of meetings, etc. please contact the secretariat for the Group: Vinia Abesamis, Herefordshire Partnership: vabesamis@herefordshire.gov.uk

Membership and Terms of Reference