Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED

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That the minutes of the meeting held on 15 July 2016 were agreed as a correct record.

The Board received an update report on progress made in the development of the Gateshead Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) based on progress on the 10 priorities set in May 2015 in the paper “Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2015: Prioritisation of Need in Gateshead”

One of the key issues discussed in the report to the HWB in May 2015 concerned how to maximise the effectiveness of intelligence gathered for the JSNA, and part of developing the Intelligence offer has been work on a number of Health Needs Assessments (HNA), including:

Homeless HNA, looking at those with multiple and complex needs through the lens of homelessness.

HNA of Black and Minority Ethnic Communities

The JSNA web pages have been totally redesigned to improve access to the intelligence (data, information and analytical narrative) used to assess health and wellbeing needs in Gateshead.

The web pages present the assembled intelligence by topic area. This includes contextual information about population and deprivation, together with detailed information about illness, life expectancy, causes of death and lifestyle behaviours. There is also a strong focus on the wider determinants of health, including the economy, transport, housing, environment, crime and poverty, as well as designated communities of interest.

The JSNA web pages are fully searchable using keywords to enable information to be retrieved easily from across different sections. Headline data is presented for all topic areas and links have been embedded to online data maintained in Public Health England’s ‘fingertips’ tool. This enables benchmarking against other areas and analysis of trends.

Ten strategic priorities were identified in JSNA 2015 taking into account:

the severity and scale of the issue

how it impacts on Gateshead Council

an understanding of what can be changed through local action and how that action is related to other issues (impact) and

having a strong evidence base for action

These were agreed by the HWB and are grouped by life courses as follows:

Best start in life

Education and skills

Emotional health and wellbeing

Starting and staying healthy and safe

Living well for longer

Economic factors

Mental health and wellbeing

Tobacco control and smoking

Alcohol misuse

Healthy weight and physical

Older people

Frailty

Long term conditions

Mental health and wellbeing

These priorities have been reviewed for the update JSNA and remain relevant to the work of the HWB.

The Board also received an update on the JSNA website usage statistics and the work underway with the Third Sector involvement; which involves partnership working with Gateshead Learning Disability Community, Gateshead Older People’s Assembly and Gateshead Carers Creative Writing.

The Board received presentations on Homeless Health Needs Assessment Progress, Intelligence Offer Black and Minority Ethnic Groups, Intelligence Offer Regional Refugee Forum North East and Intelligence Offer – Your Voice Counts and the Involvement Now Team.

The Board were advised that the JSNA Steering Group will:

·         Review and update the ‘expert authors list’. The Steering Group will contact partners as necessary to ensure that the list is up to date and complete, and to secure the outstanding  ...  view the full minutes text for item HW66

The Board received the updated Forward Plan and meetings schedule in order to steer the work of the Board for the remainder of 2016/17.

The Health and Wellbeing Board considered at its last meeting on 15 July 2016 an initial draft Forward Plan and associated meetings schedule to shape the work of the Board. It reflected issues which have been identified by the Board to-date and related to 5 key areas of focus:

·         strategy, policy development and commissioning intentions

·         transformation agenda, integration and ways of working

·         health and care service developments and reviews

·         performance management

·         assurance issues

Further work has been undertaken over the summer recess to develop the Forward Plan further with input from Partners.

Sally Young presented the national report into the joint review of partnerships and investment in voluntary and community and social enterprise organisations in the health and social care sector and implications for Gateshead.

The Board agreed to arrange for a seminar to explore in further detail how the role of the voluntary and community sector in Gateshead could be maximised and enhanced.

Sally Young agreed to provide a further report to the Board in three months time.

The Board received the NHS England Better Care Fund (BCF) return for the 1^st Quarter of 2016/17, which sets out progress in relation to budget arrangements, meeting the national conditions, performance against BCF metrics etc.

Further deadlines for completion of future quarterly returns for 2016/17 have been agreed as follows, and these will be brought to the Board for endorsement:

Q2 2016/17 – 25 November 2016

Q3 2016/17 – 24 February 2017

Q4 2016/17 – 24 May 2017

The Board received the Gateshead Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSC) Annual Report 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 Action Plan for the 2014-2017 Business Plan.

The Board were advised that 85.8 children per 10,000 were currently being ‘looked after by Gateshead Council’ which equates to the highest number ever being looked after by the Council.  Sheila Lock suggested that a seminar be arranged to investigate this issue further and the Board agreed this was a good idea.

Louise Gill invited the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board and the newly appointed independent chair of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board along to the CCG Commissioning Intentions meeting in December 2016.

Louise Gill also agreed to attend further meetings of the Board.