Issue - meetings

To consider the Wellbeing Board Refresh/Strategy into Action (15 mins)

The Board received a report regarding the Wellbeing Board refresh/Strategy into Action.

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

·         The three key priorities of the refreshed Health and Wellbeing Strategy were; Creating physically active communities; Reducing social isolation and loneliness; and Narrowing the health inequalities gap.  These priorities were also an umbrella that covered a large range of areas and issues that related to the local needs of the Borough.

·         An action plan, ‘Strategy into Action’ would be developed further by the Wellbeing Board and the key stakeholders in Spring 2019.  This collaboration for the development of the action plan would aim to enhance relationships and enable partners to decide on their level of involvement against particular actions.  A Strategy into Action group had been established which would be utilised to support, co-ordinate and help turn the strategy into tangible and meaningful actions.

·         It was noted that the Group had identified themes under the three key priorities.

·         Graham Ebers indicated that all partners would be written to, to ask what work they would be undertaking in relation to the priorities and what more could be done.  Philip Cook suggested that all organisations that services were commissioned from, should be written to.

·         Katie Summers indicated that she and Tessa Lindfield were Senior Responsible Officers for the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Sustainability and Transformation Plan, and that an application to look at physical activity in the health and social care workforce in the area had received £120,000 of government funding. 

·         Dr Winfield commented that an increasing number of younger people were feeling socially isolated.

·         Tessa Lindfield emphasised that the Board had a duty to have regard to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

RESOLVED:  That the update and progress to date for the Wellbeing Strategy be noted and the implementation of Strategy into Action be supported.