Issue - meetings

Officers provided a report which gave the Board an opportunity to review the current Health and Wellbeing Strategy and begin the development of the future Strategy. The Strategy would underpin the Board’s work programme and communication and engagement Strategy (both covered in items on elsewhere on the agenda).

The current Health & Wellbeing Strategy commenced in 2012 for three years; it was agreed as part of the development that there would be an annual refresh of the data and priorities to reflect the latest evidence from the JSNA and monitoring reports.  It was also the opportunity to outline current drivers especially as the Health and Social Care areas changed and became more fully integrated.

Board Members noted an update on each of the nine priorities with  summary of the main achievements over the last two years, a red, amber and green rating (RAG) based on the progress against the three year outcomes and finally a summary of the planned actions for 2014/15. This was currently being finalised with key partners including the Council, Bromley CCG and third sector partners. It was planned that during 2014/15 all nine priorities would be monitored and reported to the HWB during the course of the year.

The Strategy developed in 2012 outlined the proposed changes in both health and social care organisations, these changes had now been implemented in part and in relation to further integration these plans had become more developed locally. The evidence base of the 2012 version of the Strategy had also been updated to reflect the 2012 JSNA and other more up to date sources. This document would be finalised and circulated for sign off at the HWB March meeting, with February being used to collate feedback and comments on the content of this refreshed Strategy.

It was planned that work on the 2015 – 18 Health and Wellbeing Strategy will begin as soon as the 2013 JSNA was presented for sign off by the HWB (September 2014). A facilitated HWB workshop where the potential areas to be considered as priorities in the future Strategy, the draft Strategy would be developed for engagement events early in 2015 for launching and implementation from April 2015.

The Chairman was pleased to see the ratings included in the Strategy,  this was one of the suggestions from the Board’s “Away Day” in October.

Councillor Jefferys felt that close attention needed to be paid to the wording and detail and that the issues contained needed to be cross referenced.  He was aware that in relation to obesity and diabetes there are a number of other issues, in the instance of these two medical conditions he would expect to see the prevalence rise to indicate that patients are being indentified.  There were a number of other areas he would like to discuss and it was agreed that these discussions would take place outside the meeting.

Dr Lemic explained that the document being presented was the summary document and the full plan contained details on priority areas  ...  view the full minutes text for item 50