Agenda and minutes

Councillor Simpson declared a personal interest in all matters under consideration as an employee of the NHS.

Councillor Tamoor Tariq declared that he is employed as the manager of Oldham Healthwatch.

That the minutes of the meeting held on the 21^st July 2020 are attached for approval.

It was agreed:

That The minutes of the meeting held on the 21^st July 2020 be approved as a correct record.

There were no public questions.

Will Blandamer Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning, Communities and Wellbeing to provide an update. Report and presentation attached.

Will Blandamer, Executive Director for Strategic Commissioning provided an overview of the Kings Fund, Population Health paper.

The report highlights that the biggest determinants to our health and wellbeing are a wider socioeconomic and environmental conditions.

Four key categories of work that make up a population health system. Wider determinants of health, health behaviours and lifestyles and integrated health and care services. These elements have supported the development of a theoretical framework for Health and Wellbeing agenda’s going forward.

It was agreed:

Will Blandamer be thanked for his update.

Will Blandamer, Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning to present at the meeting. Report attached.

Will Blandamer, Executive Director for Strategic Commissioning provided a report on the proposed role and function of the Health and Wellbeing Board.

The Health and Wellbeing Board is a committee of the Council required by statute.  Its precise responsibilities can be quite broad but are focused on co-ordinating the Joint Strategic Needs assessment, and the local pharmaceutical needs assessment, and providing a focal point for senior leadership in partnership organisations on health and care.

The partnership system in Bury is complex and there is a risk of duplication of effort and lack of clarity of the role of each senior leadership meeting.  In particular, in Bury, a System Board has been established, comprising senior leadership from all major partners in the health system. 

A framework for the work of the Health and Wellbeing Board on the population health system would be the Kings Fund (2019) four quadrants diagram.

It was agreed:

1.   Will Blandamer be thanked for his report.

2.   The Health and Wellbeing Board will frame future agendas according to the 4 quadrant model described.

3.   The Health and Wellbeing Board should consider its own terms of reference and membership to ensure the necessary role and attendance to discharge its obligation under this proposal.

Will Blandamer, Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning to present at the meeting. Report attached.

Will Blandamer, Executive Director for Strategic Commissioning provided a report on the proposed role and function of the Health and Wellbeing Board.

Discussions took place surrounding the current membership and it was agreed that more opportunities to co-opt and invite members to the board should be explored.

It was agreed:

1.   To Refine and refresh board membership as required, in line with the Whole System Transformation agenda for Bury.

2.   To extend invitations of the health and wellbeing board to Councillor Charlotte Morris – Lead member for population health and to a representative from Six Town Housing

3.   To appoint a deputy Chair for the Health and Wellbeing Board.

Lesley Jones, Director of Public Health to provide an update at the meeting.

Lesley Jones, Director of Public Health provided an update on COVID-19.

Within Bury we are nearing 200 cases per 100,000. Which is likely to be an underestimate as many people may not seek testing or recognise their symptoms as that of COVID-19. There have also been nationally reported issues with the data.

There is a raise in cases which is starting to have a number of impacts on people in Bury, for example the number of Schools that have had to temporarily shut due to infections or needing to isolate. Impacts starting to happen in hospital activity and deaths across Greater Manchester but there are signs now at Fairfield Hospital.

Local efforts to contain the virus in the additional measures in place in Greater Manchester and target testing facilities have been increased along with increasing provision of contact tracing.

It was agreed:

1.   Staff of the contact tracing system be thanked for their hard work to support the tracing system.

2.   Lesley Jones be thanked for her update.

Lynne Ridsdale, Deputy Chief Executive to present at the meeting. Presentation attached.

Lynne Ridsdale, Deputy Chief Executive provided an update on Bury 2030 along with item 12 Bury Neighbourhood Model.

This is the proposed ten year strategy framework. The context is that we do not currently have a community strategy. Deprivation, healthy lives gap, financial system are all elements of the plan.

The proposals have been pulled together as this strategy which has been written by the Council but it is a whole community and place strategy. The proposal is to use the strap line of ‘let’s do it’ which is drawn from a piece of Victoria Woods comedy intentionally as she is from Bury. The proposal is that each word is used as the structure for the overall plan.

Establish a new neighbourhood model which designs and mainstreams the community hubs as the mainstream route for communities to help themselves. The four principles are: Inspiration, Aspiration, Participation and Collaboration.

The importance of the neighbourhood approach was discussed in managing the potential second wave of COVID-19.

It was agreed:

1.   That Bury Healthwatch be included in the plan as a specific partner.

2.   Lynne Ridsdale be thanked for her update.

Lesley Jones, Director of Public Health to provide an overview of approaches to health related behaviour change. Presentation attached.

Lesley Jones, Director of Public Health provided an update on areas of key work that will be brought under the umbrella term of health related behaviour.

Smoking, Physical activity, weight management and alcohol are all areas of work this quadrant will consider.

It was agreed:

1.   Lesley jones be thanked for her update.