Lancashire's Health and Wellbeing Board. A victim of dirty politics?

I have written three times before in some detail about the scandal surrounding the £46m expenditure allocated from the NHS to Lancashire County Council for Health and Wellbeing in the County starting April 2013.

I am told that the whole amount has been spent by the outgoing Tories and crucially - and endorsed by the former shadow board who should have had no executive powers to do so. That

£46m Health and Wellbeing Committee for Lancashire all set to fail?

Dear Board Members,

I write with a great deal of concern for the future of health and wellbeing in Lancashire. The purpose of the Health and Wellbeing boards is to integrate health and wellbeing into local government service provision. However, the recently constituted and launched Health and Wellbeing Board in Lancashire seems to be largely comprised of clinicians, the result of which means

Lancashire's Health & Wellbeing Board - Urgent need of reform

Lancashire’s new Health and Wellbeing Board has been set up stuffed with top Tories and health professionals. It is not surprising then that their list of priorities for the Board is both inward looking and based on self interest that will not serve Lancashire well and will waste public money. The board has become simply 'a crutch for the NHS' and hasn't the ability to recognise and tackle the

Lancashire’s Health and Wellbeing Board – fit for purpose or a political vehicle?

Lancashire’s Health and Wellbeing Board looks politically skewed and one has to question whether it can make the best judgements for the health and well being of Lancastrians given it’s unrepresentative nature.

It is not just politically biased but geographically leaving it less accountable. Hyndburn is completely unrepresented.

There are six politicians on the new Board: five Tories and