Issue - meetings

Each Board Member to give a 10 minute overview of their area.

• The Local Authority (Councillor Gordon Lundie)
• Clinical Commissioning Groups (Dr Alex Anderson)
• Health Watch (TBC)
• Public Health (Dr Lise Llewellyn )
• Empowering West Berkshire (Leila Ferguson)
• Health and Wellbeing Task Groups (Andy Day and Lesley Wyman)

Councillor Graham Jones in introducing this item noted that the Health and Wellbeing Board provided a great opportunity for integration for both the Local Authority and Health. The transfer of Public Health into the authority as of the 01 April 2013 also provided a great opportunity for additional democratic involvement in this area.

The Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) had already been integrated into the Board and opportunities were being sought to engage more broadly with other professionals that would have an impact on the health and wellbeing of the District. This would offer and opportunity to address some of the broader determinants of wellbeing. Workshops would be run in the future to look at ways that broader engagement could be enacted.

Dr Alex Anderson noted that as of the 01 April 2013 the CCGs had become statutory bodies and were responsible for a number of aspects of health care including secondary care and commissioning services although they were not responsible for general practices or tertiary care.

There were two CCGs in West Berkshire namely:

·        Newbury and District CCG

·        North and West Reading CCG

The Newbury and District CCG comprised 11 practices all of whom fell within the West Berkshire District boundary. Three of the ten North and West Reading practices fell within West Berkshire boundaries.

Both CCGs had already submitted their Clinical Commissioning Plans which set out their priorities for the forthcoming year.

Newbury and District CCG had identified the following priorities in their Commissioning Plan:

1.      Delivery of 9 care processes for people with diabetes, to achieve best practice care for everyone;

2.      Better identification of carers by GP practices, to enable targeted support;

3.      Offer Cardiovascular Health Checks to eligible patients in the 40-74 year age range.

North and west Reading CCG had identified the following priorities in their Commissioning Plan:

1.      Delivery of 9 care processes for people with diabetes – to achieve best practice care for everyone;

2.      Better identification of people with Cancers;

3.      Reducing Non Elective admissions for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Natausha Van Vliet from Family Resource Centre UK explained that this independent charity organisation had been awarded the Healthwatch contract in West Berkshire. Their aim was to give a stronger voice to communities and the people within West Berkshire, helping to influence and shape how health and social care service in West Berkshire were provided. The local board had now been set up and had been fully recruited to. Their first meeting would take place in May.

Lise Llewellyn explained that Public Health had transferred from the NHS to the Local Authority as of the 01 April 2013. One of the key functions would be to undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) of the district which would be used as the basis for the Health and wellbeing Strategy and would assist the CCGs when they produced their Commissioning Plans in future years and would also be used to hold the organisations to account. This small  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5