23 April 2012

HWBs - what are they?


Health and wellbeing boards: System leaders or talking shops?
Kings Fund, April 2012
  • The findings from a survey and case studies based on the experience of two early implementers, including the ways in which local authorities have begun to develop new arrangements with their partners – the size, composition and ways of working emerging from the shadow boards.
"There was a clear message that boards are more likely to succeed by using skills in influencing and relationship-building rather than through formal managerial control or accountabilities."