Issue - meetings

Report CSD18129

The Committee considered the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2017 which had been approved by the Health and Wellbeing Board at its meeting on 8^th February 2018.

The Local Authority and NHS Primary Care Trusts had a statutory requirement to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment which should be updated on an annual basis and aimed to build an understanding of the current and future health and wellbeing needs of the population to support the setting of strategic priorities in the short and longer term and to inform local commissioning across health and social care.  The Bromley Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2017 explored factors affecting health and wellbeing of the Bromley population and identified  a number of key issues including the increasing population as well as specific issues around infant mortality, the prevalence of diagnosed depression and concerns around the rates of self-harm, suicide and drug misuse across the Borough.  In approving the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2017 at its meeting on 8^th February 2018, the Health and Wellbeing Board had agreed that a comprehensive evaluation of the Bromley Joint Strategic Needs Assessment be undertaken to review the structure, process and outcomes of the report to ensure it was fit for purpose and capable of answering the complex commissioning questions of the future, and that the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy be reviewed concurrently to this evaluation to inform the publication of a refreshed strategy later in the year.

In considering the report, the Chairman noted the value of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment in supporting policy development and scrutiny of care and health services and noted that the Director: Public Health would be working more closely with the Health Scrutiny Sub-Committee in future.  The Consultant (Public Health) confirmed that a range of factsheets summarising the key findings of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment were being developed and would be available shortly.

RESOLVED that:

1)  The key findings of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2017 be noted;

2)  The proposals for an evaluation of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2017 be noted; and,

3)  The proposal to develop a new Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy in 2018 be noted.