A Health and Wellbeing Board is an Organisation.

A Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) is a forum where key leaders from the health and care system work together to improve the health and wellbeing of their local population and reduce health inequalities.

Each Local Authority in England has a fully operational Health and Wellbeing Board. 

For further information on Health and Wellbeing Boards, see the Health and Social Care Act 2012: fact sheets.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
shortname	HWB
plural	Health and Wellbeing Boards