Agenda item

Report CS18180

The Board considered a report outlining a review of the methodology of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS) undertaken during 2018.  This included the addition of new priorities for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy agreed at the meetings of the Health and Wellbeing Board on 7^th June 2018 and 19^th July 2018.

In considering the draft Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2017 at its meeting on 8^th February 2018, the Health and Wellbeing Board agreed that an evaluation of the Bromley Joint Strategic Needs Assessment be undertaken to review the structure, process and outcomes of the provision of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and that a review of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy be undertaken to inform the development of a new strategy.  This work had now been completed with new methodologies developed for both the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.  The draft Bromley Health and Wellbeing Strategy provided a structure for the new document and outlined a proposed process for developing action plans for each of the ten identified priorities, as well as a process by which progress on the action plans could be reported to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

In response to a question from a Member in relation to Priority 1 - Cancer, the Director: Public Health confirmed that there were plans to target areas of high deprivation where smoking and alcohol use were known to be higher, and that this included work to integrate with local Primary Care services.  It was the first time that cancer had been included as a priority in the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and this was as a result of it overtaking cardiovascular disease as the major cause of death in the Bromley population.  The Member also raised a concern in relation to Priority 7 – Adults with a Learning Disability who Live in Stable and Appropriate Accommodation, and the Director: Public Health advised that a range of work would be undertaken with partners including the Housing Service to explore this issue and develop an action plan, and that regular updates would be provided to Health and Wellbeing Board as this work was progressed.  The Member highlighted Priority 9 – Youth Violence and observed that perceptions of youth violence appeared to differ between younger and older Bromley residents.  With regard to Priority 6 – Statutory Homelessness, another Member suggested that more could be done by the Board to explore the health and wellbeing implications of homelessness, and the Chairman noted that Housing came within the remit of the Renewal, Recreation and Housing Portfolio but that reports relating to homelessness and its impact on health and wellbeing would be provided to the Board where appropriate. 

The Chairman led the Board in thanking the Director: Public Health and her team for their work in developing the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.  The Health and Wellbeing Strategy would be provided to the next meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board on 28^th November 2018, and the Chairman requested that Board Members provide any further comments to the Director: Public Health following the meeting. 

RESOLVED that:

1)  The proposed structure of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy be agreed; and,

2)  The process outlined for the next stage of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, which comprised developing the action plans and reporting process, be agreed.