Issue - meetings

To receive the Health and Wellbeing Board Refresh (20 mins)

The Board received a presentation on the Health and Wellbeing Board Refresh.

During the discussion of this item the following points were made:

·         Katie Summers advised that the Board was learning from good practice such as the Bicester Healthy New Town Programme.

·         The Health and Wellbeing Strategy was being redesigned.  It was proposed that the Board’s vision be ‘Creating healthy and resilient communities’ and that the Health and Wellbeing Strategy focus on three key priorities:

o   Narrowing the health inequalities gap;

o   Reducing isolation; and

o   Creating Physically Active Communities.

·         Reference was made to potential partners who were considered vital to the progression of the vision.

·         With regards to the priority ‘Creating Physically Active Communities,’ the aim was to get people of all ages and abilities more physically active by: getting more people out and using green and blue spaces; promoting more active travel; and encouraging more children to get at least one hour of physical activity every day.

·         With regards to the priority ‘Reducing Social Isolation,’ the aim was to reduce social isolation and loneliness particularly in: Older people; People with mental illness; and Carers in order to improve their mental and physical wellbeing.

·         With regards to the priority ‘Narrowing the health inequalities gap’ the aim was to close the gap between what a child who was born today in the most deprived areas and those in the least deprived areas would experience over their life time.

·         Board members considered how the Board as a whole could influence these priorities through various different means; policy, physical environment, organisations and institutions, social environment and individual.

·         Dr Milligan and Councillor Dolinski indicated that they had been impressed by the principles of the Wigan Deal model and that they and Martin Sloan would be visiting Wigan in the autumn to hear about examples of good practice.

·         Councillor Dolinski stated that a cross party Adult Social Care Working Group had recently been established and that it would report back to the Board.

·         The following was proposed which was agreed by the Board.

o   To invite Housing to be a member of the Board;

o   Development of an engagement plan for the new approach;

o   Reviewing the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and to adopt this approach as the revised strategy;

o   To review existing partnerships and to consider any gaps or duplications and to identify areas where we may need to revise or cease approaches.

RESOLVED:  That the proposed approach to developing the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the establishment of mechanisms for its delivery, be agreed.