Each Local Health Board, each local authority and the NHS Trusts must, prepare and publish a strategy.

A local authority must discharge its duty to prepare a strategy by participating in the preparation of a single joint strategy with the Local Health Board in whose area its local authority area lies, as shown in the Schedule.

For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Measure (submission of draft strategy to Welsh Ministers), the Local Health Board is the lead authority for the strategy which it prepares with a local authority.

A strategy prepared by a Local Health Board, and in whose preparation one or more local authorities participate, must set out how each of those bodies will work together to achieve the aims set out in section 2(1)(a), (b) and (c) of the Measure.

Each of the NHS Trusts may discharge its duty to prepare and publish a strategy by participating in the preparation of the strategies of the Local Health Boards.