Agenda and minutes

The Chair, County Councillor Valerie Wilson, welcomed all the meeting and in particular welcomed Councillor Julie Cooper who has replaced Councillor Margaret Lishman as the East Lancashire District Councils representative.  County Councillor Wilson also provided an overview of the agenda.

Apologies were noted.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 9 May 2012.

The minutes of the previous meeting held on 9 May 2012 were agreed as an accurate record.

Presentation

Habib Patel, Lancashire County Council, began the presentation by reminding the Board of the purpose of the Strategy:

Work together...

—  Achieve shifts in the way that partners work; resulting in more effective collaboration and greater impact on health and wellbeing.

—  Learn the lessons arising from this collaboration to strengthen future working together.

... Get results

—  Deliver improvements in ‘priority outcomes’.

—  Deliver early interventions i.e. specific areas for action that will help deliver the priority outcomes whilst ‘modelling’ desired shifts in the ways that partners work together.

Habib highlighted the four long term priority outcomes for the Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2012 – 2020:

·  Maternal and child health

·  Mental Health and Wellbeing

·  Long term conditions

·  Improve health and independence of older people

It was then explained that some Board members would take the lead role on certain key areas and a "Health and Wellbeing Interventions Leads" document was circulated.  Board members confirmed they were happy with the suggested Board members for each intervention and it was agreed a final version would be circulated in due course.

Habib finished his presentation by outlining the timescales for approval of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy as follows:

—  Draft Strategy sign off (10^th July)

—  Interventions (2^nd September)

—  Final Strategy and Interventions ( 18^th Oct)

—  Launch Strategy and intervention programme  (16^th Nov)

At this point Ian Roberts asked the Board in groups to consider any "concerns" they have and any "recommendations" for addressing those concerns.  The Board then fed back the following results:

Board members discussed the establishment of CCG Plans and that the Board is currently carrying a Provider vacancy.  It was agreed that Sally Parnaby would look into the Provider vacancy and how the Board engage with providers.

Resolved: The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board noted the presentation and comments  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

Report attached

Habib Patel, Lancashire County Council, presented the report.  Habib explained that at the last Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board meeting (9^th May 2012) it was decided that all the Board members as part of their leadership role would engage partners in the development of the strategy.

An engagement paper was written which was agreed to be distributed by the Board members to partners, stakeholder etc The Strategy engagement paper outlined:

·  The purpose of the strategy and how the Board would work to deliver outcomes

·  Shifts in the way partners would work

·  Priority health and wellbeing outcomes in Lancashire

·  Interventions

The engagement paper also proposed two questions for stakeholders to comment on:

·  What recommendations would you make to strengthen the emerging strategy?

·  What contribution can your organisation/partnership make in the delivery of the strategy?

Habib highlighted the progress made to date as follows:

Board members have been sharing and distributing the paper with stakeholders, below is a list of key stakeholders who have either been contacted for comment or will be contacted in the coming weeks.

It was noted that Board members have circulated the strategy engagement paper to other stakeholder for comments also. These may not have been captured in the table above. 

Resolved:

The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board agreed:

·  For Board members to continue to engage partners with the development of the Health and Wellbeing strategy.

·  To note and send out the strategy engagement paper to any obvious partners who have not been covered to date.

·  To inform Habib Patel habib.patel@lancashire.gov.uk on circulation of engagement paper to key stakeholders.

Report attached.

Habib Patel, Lancashire County Council, presented the report and explained that HealthWatch will be a local independent organisation, able to employ its own staff and volunteers, so it can become the influential and effective voice of the public. It will have to keep accounts and make its annual reports available to the public.

Habib explained that Lancashire County Council has a responsibility to ensure that Lancashire has its own Local HealthWatch by 1^st April 2013.

As no Local HealthWatch structure is currently in place, Lancashire County Council are seeking a Host organisation to maintain the work of the current Local Involvement Network (LINk) and build an organisation called Local Lancashire HealthWatch which will operate within the County Council footprint.  The contract will be awarded to the organisation who most convincingly demonstrates how it will work with citizens, representing the twelve districts of Lancashire through Community HealthWatch Gateways.

The contract awarded will start no later than 1^st July 2012 and a Lancashire Health Watch to be up and running by the 1^st April 2013. Lancashire County Council as the top tier authority is responsible for commissioning Lancashire HealthWatch and have therefore made £60,000 available for the building an effective and inclusive Lancashire HealthWatch. The final figure for the running of a Lancashire HealthWatch will not be known till later in the year.

Resolved:  The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board noted the progress being made on developing a Lancashire HealthWatch.

Report attached.

Mike Hart, Director for Resources, Planning and Business Services, Directorate for Children and Young People gave a presentation on Children's Trusts and links with the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board.

Mike gave some background to the Children's Trusts and explained that they have been in operation for around 6 or 7 years, they were statutory but are not anymore.  The Children's Trusts work to clear outcomes from OfSTED and to priorities set out in the Children and Young People's Plan, which was last refreshed around 18 months ago.

Mike explained that several partners are involved in the Trusts including:

•  Borough Councils

•  Children’s Centres

•  Colleges

•  Health – commissioners and providers

•  Lancashire Constabulary

•  Lancashire County Council

•  Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service

•  Schools – primary, secondary and special

•  Voluntary Community and Faith Sector

The Children's Trusts have a number of health related priorities and central to that is "Working Together" to achieve healthy delivery, by sharing information across all the partners to benefit families and achieve long term intervention success.

The Children's Trusts achieve this by working with families as opposed to doing to, helping them to improve their situation and take greater control over changing their circumstances and improving outcomes for their children.

The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board welcomed the presentation and discussed how the Children's Trusts could link to the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).

The following recommendations were set out in the report to the Board to build on the existing work of the CYP Trust; to strengthen the relationship between the Trust and the Health and Wellbeing Board and to reduce the risk of duplication in how we deliver services to children and young people.

·  The CYP Health and Wellbeing Priority Group is established as a sub group of both the Trust and the Health and Wellbeing Board with a remit to promote, improve and champion the health and wellbeing of CYP (as set out at Appendix 1 to the report).

·  The Director of Public Health to chair the CYP Health and Wellbeing Board Priority Group to ensure an appropriate flow of discussion, decision and information between the Priority Group and the HWB Board.

·  To establish a children and young people's version Health and Wellbeing Board whose membership will consist of children and young people from across Lancashire. This group will ensure and enable the voice, participation and engagement of children and young people in strategic decision making about health and wellbeing.

·  A protocol will be drafted to formally outline the relationship and responsibilities between the CYP Trust and the Health and Wellbeing Board and building on the above recommendations. This will be presented for discussion and agreement at a future meeting.

Resolved:  The Board welcomed the report on the Children's Trusts and welcomed the work being done by the Children's Trusts regarding Health and Wellbeing priorities.  The Board, agreed that whilst the Board was finalising the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, that at this time it would  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

None

All meetings are a 2pm start, with tea, coffee and biscuits available from 1.45pm.

Board members are asked to note that the next meeting will be held on 10 July 2012, Cabinet Room 'D', County Hall, Preston.

The programme of meetings for 2012 was noted and it was also noted that the next meeting would be held on 10 July 2012 at 2pm in Cabinet Room 'D', County Hall, Preston.