Minutes:
The Board received a report providing a progress summary on The Health and Wellbeing Strategy Approach and Plan for Implementation, which was approved by the Board in April 2023.
The report covers three parts covering the implementation of the report:
The report includes a detailed update on each of these parts. The Board commended the depth of the report and welcomed future updates with further detail.
The report also proposed that the Health and Wellbeing Strategy should be updated to include the two new Marmot principals introduced in 2022, as the Strategy is based on the original six Marmot principles. The two new principles are:
The Board agreed that the new principles proposed were important and should be included in the strategy. It also confirmed that it is important that the goals of the Strategy remain achievable and manageable. Partners highlighted that work on these principles is ongoing and that their formal addition is welcome.
It was also felt that the equality, diversity and inclusion principles could go further, and that a proposal to strengthen this will be brought to the Council’s CMT in the future.
Note: Page 9, the report presented to the Board mentioned that:
‘Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHST) have introduced the Winifred Laver Centre, a 60-bed intermediate care facility for patients recovering from an illness or injury. The Centre is for patients requiring a period of recovery, rehabilitation or reablement which does not need to be provided in hospital but can’t be provided in their home due to their support needs’.
This has since been corrected and should read:
‘Through a partnership between Gateshead Council, North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), and Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHST), the Sister Winifred Laver Promoting Independence Centre has opened to provide a 60-bed intermediate care facility for people recovering from an illness or injury. The Centre is for people requiring a period of recovery, rehabilitation or reablement and to prevent admission to hospitals or care homes’.
RESOLVED
viii. The Board noted that a further report will be brought to the Board in the Autumn updating progress on the actions as agreed, including an updated version of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy Implementation Plan. As part of this, it was felt that it would be useful to see a practical example of how the Health in all policies (HiAP) approach is being applied.
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