Agenda item

Purpose: To provide exception reports from each of the delivery groups.

The Board considered the report (Agenda Item 14) to update the Board on progress made on the establishment of Delivery Groups and the development of Delivery plans to demonstrate progress on addressing the eleven priorities in the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The Health and Wellbeing Strategy had eleven priorities and in June 2015 individuals were asked to establish Delivery Groups and to develop Delivery Plans to demonstrate to the Board how each of the priority areas would be addressed.

Terms of reference for the Delivery Groups were sent out alongside a Delivery Plan template for each of the priorities and where possible priorities were grouped.

The following leads were identified at a meeting with Head of Public Health and Wellbeing, Head of Adult Social Care and Director of Operations, Newbury and District CCG:

·         Dementia Lead: West Berkshire Council Dementia Team Leader supported by PH Programme Officer

·         Mental Health and Wellbeing – adults  Lead:  PH Programme Officer

·         Children and Young People - Lead: Head of Children’s Services

·         Carers -  Lead:  Adult Social Care Service Manager supported by PH Programme Officer

·         Health Damaging Behaviours - Lead:  Head of Health and Wellbeing

·         Healthy weight and physical activity - Lead: PH Programme Manager

·         Cardiovascular disease and cancer - Lead: Director of Operations, NDCCG supported by Head of PH and Wellbeing

·         Long Term Conditions, Falls Prevention and EOL Care Lead: Head of Adult Social Care

Progress was varied across the priorities and where groups had already been in existence this had usually been beneficial. This had certainly been the case for the following:

·         Carers Strategy Group

·         Mental Health Collaborative

·         Healthy Lifestyles Network 

·         Newbury Dementia Action Alliance

The Children and Young People’s Group was being set up initially by the Head of Prevention and Community Resilience, West Berkshire Council. The first meeting was on 24 November 2015. The group would link into the existing School’s Health and Wellbeing group. It was agreed by the Health and Wellbeing Board at an earlier meeting that the Children and Young People Delivery Group would address the three priorities relating to the health and well being of young people: promoting emotional wellbeing in all children and young people, improving health and educational outcomes of looked after children and closing the attainment gap between children on free school meals and all other children. There had been discussions about the possibility of addressing children and young people’s mental and emotional wellbeing through the Mental Health Collaborative, however this had not been completely agreed and was still under consideration.

Since there had been such a diverse response to the setting up of Delivery Groups and the development of Delivery Plans it was suggested that a new deadline for draft Delivery Plans be set by the Health and Wellbeing Board with a requirement for these to be submitted to inform the Board of progress on all the priorities.

Cathy Winfield stated that there was not the organisational capacity to support lots of new groups and recommended that existing groups were captured.

Lesley Wyman posed to the Board how these groups should be required to feedback progress.

Jo Karsinsksi advised that she had asked to join the Dementia Group in her capacity as the Healthwatch representative and enquired upon how effective this group was.

Leila Ferguson requested that Empowering West Berkshire be involved in these groups as there was huge variety in their voluntary sector prospectus.

Rachael Wardell, in her capacity as Director of Children’s Services and of Adult Social Services observed that there was not sufficient visibility of children’s issues. She was pleased to see the creation of a children and young people group as she did not think that children’s’ issues should be sidelined. It was however the intention that the Delivery Groups would supply only exception reports to the Board. Councillor Mollie Lock agreed that children’s issues should be prioritised.