Agenda item

Report AC23-043

The Board considered a report outlining the proposed detail of the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024 to 2028.

At the Health and Wellbeing Strategy workshop held on 8^th December 2022, Members of the Board discussed in small groups the potential priority areas for the next publication of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy to focus on. At the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting on 30^th March 2023 the Board agreed on the three overarching priority areas for the new Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024 to 2028, these areas were as follows:

1.  Improving Health and Wellbeing of young people (to include obesity, youth violence, adolescent mental health);

2.  Improving Health and Wellbeing of Adults (to include obesity, diabetes, dementia, mental health, substance misuse); and,

3.  Disease prevention and helping people to stay well (linking with the ICB prevention priority and achieving this through the vital 5 work).

Members had been provided with a copy of the new Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and were asked to agree on its content and structure. The Director of Public Health advised that the document would be put through a design phase to ensure the document was ready for publication later in the year. Details would be sought from partners in terms of how they would respond to the priorities in the new strategy and how they would address them. Potential partners included LBB, One Bromley and the voluntary sector – the Public Health Team would then work with these partners to co-ordinate updates on progress against the strategy, reporting twice a year to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

The Chairman suggested that within the vision/ambition section the concept of working on early prevention should be made explicit, and the outcomes around dementia should reference the work around brain health.

The Bromley Place Executive Director said that the document reflected the various discussion held and linked well with the Local Care Partnership strategic approach. It was considered that the outcomes could be broken down further – all agencies would have a different role to play, and could be given a couple of targets/ambitions. These comments were echoed by the Interim Site Chief Executive. The Chairman agreed and advised that this would grow out of the next stage of consultation. The Director of Public Health said that the Health and Wellbeing Board had a statutory responsibility to develop a Health and Wellbeing Strategy, but the areas of work would overlap with the work of other partners/groups – to develop a delivery plan for the individual priorities they would need to undertake further engagement and discussion. Once the strategy was approved and published, it could be presented to other groups such as the One Bromley Executive and Children’s Executive Board. In response to a question, the Director of Public Health said that in terms of nutrition, this would be included in the delivery plan for tackling obesity.

Members suggested that having an appendix of the current position of the priorities would be beneficial as it could be referred back to during discussions. The Director of Public Health said that prior to the strategy workshop the current position had been presented and the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) also contained a lot of this information. It was suggested that once a year the position of these priorities could be extracted. Members highlighted that the strategy needed to provide clarity of what ‘good’ looked like, and the targets/ambitions needed to be measurable.

In response to questions, the Director of Public Health said it was envisaged that several priority areas would be led by other groups/committees. It was proposed that the strategy was taken to these groups for them to consider the work currently being undertaken. They would like to identify some measurable outcomes – in terms of how the priorities would be addressed and progressed through a delivery plan. In terms of membership and involvement of the voluntary sector, the Director of Public Health said that the existing groups may be happy to have input from additional members, which could be discussed in further detail following the meeting.

The Chairman thanked officers for the work undertaken to produce the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024-2028. It was agreed that once the minor changes suggested had been made the document would be recirculated to Board Members. The final version would then be brought to the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting in April 2024.

RESOLVED that:

i.)  the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024 to 2028 be agreed; and,

ii.)  the process with partners about the development of action plan to address the priorities outlined in the new Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024 to 2028 be agreed.