Agenda item

A report from the Health and Wellbeing Policy Lead is attached.

The Health and Wellbeing Board considered a verbal presentation from the Health and Wellbeing Board Policy Lead.  An accompanying report had been submitted to the Panel providing an overview of work undertaken to develop the Health and Wellbeing Board.  The report contained the following information:

The Health and Wellbeing Board has a duty to monitor the delivery of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and members of the Board are committed to a refresh of the strategy.

The health and wellbeing strategy is an interactive document, refreshing the strategy is essential to ensure the document is fit for purpose, has a robust monitoring framework and has adequate governance arrangements that support the delivery of these priorities.

·           Members of the Board considered a verbal presentation from the Interim Director of Public Health which provided details of the Outcome Based Accountability framework which will form part of the measures that the Board will use to assess their performance against key indicators contained within the refreshed strategy.

Outcomes based accountability is based on ensuring that performance measures are based upon common language, common sense and common ground.  Outcomes accountability is made up of two parts, population accountability and performance accountability. 

The Interim Director of Public Health provided Board members with practical examples of how the Outcomes Based Accountability tool could add value to the work of the Board for example, by measuring permanent admissions to residential and nursing care homes.

·           Members of the Board Considered a verbal presentation from the – Integrated Health and Social Care Programme Manager which provided Members of the Board with details of the Health and Social Care Integration agenda.  

The vision in Bury is that people will live well, stay well, remain active and have better outcomes & experiences with a focus on citizenship, prevention, self-care & independence.  Agencies working together will Support people to enable them to live in their own homes and communities.  As well as, providing sustainable and quality joined up services closer to home.

The Integrated Health and Social Care Programme Manager reported that there are three key deliverables that support the vision of integrated Health & Social Care, these are:

•                                                         Ageing well – a range of initiatives to support prevention & self care

•                                                                       Reablement and Intermediate Care services to help people to remain as independent as possible

•                                                                       Integrated community and primary care services to provide support   closer to home.

The Integrated Health and Social Care Programme Manager reported that a revised better care fund plan must be submitted to NHS England by September 2014.

The Integrated Health and Social Care Programme Manager reported that £2.9m had been awarded from the Prime Ministers GP Challenge Fund to enable Bury GP surgeries to open for longer hours.

Members of the Board discussed the development of a revised Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the following issues were raised:

· Information held by the Council, partners and stakeholders must be up to date.

·    Involvement of the third sector

·    Avoid duplication with other strategies

·    Effective data sharing

·    Qualitative data to assist discussion

·    Strategy must reflect Board priorities.

·    Clarity and consistency around who delivers what?

              Delegated decision:

              The Health and Wellbeing Board agrees that the Health and Wellbeing Strategy will be refreshed.