There were three district health authorities: Great Yarmouth and Waveney, West Norfolk and Wisbech and Norwich created in 1982.
In 1993 these were reorganised into North West Anglia (which included a part of Cambridgeshire), Norwich, and Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
The board produces and annual strategy which all the partner organisations agree to implement in their respective spheres.
The details of the current strategy and future meeting dates are hosted on Norfolk County Council’s website (Health and Wellbeing Board).
Once a year a forward strategy is submitted for approval to the Health and Wellbeing Board for Norfolk and Waveney.
Due to the aging population of the county leading to increased demand, the projected deficit in 2020/21 is £415 million.
[3] He was succeeded by Melanie Craig the chief officer of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG.
[5] In September 2020 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust established a “committee in common” where the senior managers will meet monthly to oversee the major acute integration strategy.
In September 2021 a review commissioned by Norfolk County Council challenged the continued use of “profit-driven” private hospitals, noting “indifferent and harmful” care of patients with learning disabilities at Cawston Park where there had been deaths of three young adults.