Decision details

Jon Hobday, Public Health Consultant attended the meeting to provide an overview of the developments and a summary of the proposed next steps to the development of the Bury JSNA.

There is a work plan that is regularly reviewed which acts as the guide for what work needs to be prioritised, completed and added to the JSNA. This has been a new development and enables staff to prioritise which documents are updated.

As well as the new documents being added to the JSNA there has also been a number of behind the scenes developments including

-      Training of new staff.

-      Development of structural and presentation ideas of how the Bury JSNA can be more user friendly

The Public Health Consultant highlighted a number of proposed developments for 2019/20, including:

• A full refresh/update of the existing documents contained within the work plan, changes to the website are proposed.

• Development of more detailed neighbourhood profiles to support key decisions at a neighbourhood level.
• A move for the JSNA to fit more to the life course. There will be 3 main level summaries which will be categorised into Starting Well, Living Well and Aging Well, ensuring alignment with Bury’s Single Outcomes Framework.
• Integration of Piktochart infographics and Tableau dashboards embedded within the JSNA.

Questions were invited from those present and the following issues were raised:

Members discussed the expanding the role of the JSNA and current funding arrangements. 

The Director of Public Health reported that it is a statutory duty of the Board to produce a JSNA with good quality data and intelligence, this is currently undertaken with limited resources.  The Board should look to engage partners in giving greater consideration to how the JSNA is resourced, given the information is invaluable to the development of neighbourhood teams and commissioning as a whole.

It was agreed:

The Health and Wellbeing Board endorse the ongoing developments of the JSNA.