Agenda and minutes

The Chair, County Councillor Valerie Wilson, welcomed all to the meeting and in particular the guests attending to assist with presenting the Intervention items.  County Councillor Wilson also provided an overview of the agenda.

Apologies were noted.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 29 May 2012.

Resolved: The minutes of the meeting held on 29 May 2012 were agreed as an accurate record.

Report to attached.

Habib Patel, Lancashire County Council, opened the presentation by explaining that the Board has been working to a tight timescale but has a bit more time to work on the chosen Interventions.  The intention is to agree which Interventions the Board will target with the aim of presenting firm proposals to the September 2012 Board meeting.  Habib thanked Board members for their hard work so far on each on the Interventions.

Habib drew the Boards attention to the 10 documents circulated in the agenda papers which give an overview of the work done on each Intervention to date.

Resolved: The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board noted the presentation and documents circulated with the agenda.

Presentations

Alcohol Liaison Intervention (Board Members County Councillor Mike Calvert and Dr David Wrigley)

Steve Owen, Lead Officer for the Alcohol Liaison Intervention gave a presentation on progress to date on this particular Intervention and what is working well / not well.

The current situation in Lancashire is that there are three distinct projects which follow a best fit model as resources allow.  Models are based on local priorities – i.e. reducing alcohol related admission rates and unscheduled care.  There is a good evidence base for interventions and some evidence of emerging partnerships between hospital and community services.

Steve explained that the outcomes for Alcohol Liaison had been split into short, medium and long term goals as follows:

Steve also highlighted some of the shifts or changes required to ensure the Intervention is effectively implemented as follows:

Board members welcomed the presentation and commented that early intervention to educate people on a healthy lifestyle was important to intervention success, and also commented on some of the wider interventions related to alcohol such as enforcement of alcohol licensing.

Loneliness in Older People  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

Report attached.

Habib Patel presented the report (circulated).  The Board provided comments and feedback on the progress to date on the narrative and it was suggested that a small group be formed to review the narrative.

Resolved: The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board noted the report and agreed to that a small group be formed to review the narrative.

Report attached.

Habib Patel presented the report (circulated) on the Engagement Feedback and comments received to date on the Strategy.

Michael Wedgeworth, Third Sector Lancashire, was invited to comment on the work done by Third Sector Lancashire on collating responses from the Third Sector to the strategy. 

Michael reported back on a number of suggested recommendations received from the Third Sector organisations (document circulated) which included addressing inequalities, need for clarity around the role of the Voluntary, Community and Faith Sectors within the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, the need for two way communication and other suggested recommendations.

Resolved: The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board noted the report and presentation.

Report attached.

Dr Ann Bowman, Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), presented the Commissioning Plan (circulated).  Dr Bowman explained that the Plan had been written before the Health and Wellbeing Strategy so reference to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy will be included in future editions of the Plan. 

Dr Bowman explained that the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board will play a significant role in informing CCGs of health and social care need, working with CCGs to develop their strategic thinking and shape their developing plans for the future. The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board plays a part in the authorisation process, key areas were highlighted as follows:

·  Taking part in a 360 degree survey on each CCG within its footprint

·  Receiving and commenting on the vision and key priorities of each CCG within its footprint.

·  Working with CCGs, using refreshed JSNA ,to develop joint health and wellbeing strategy, to enable integrated commissioning where it is most useful on an on-going basis

·  Ensuring that Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevent ion (QIPP )is integrated within all plans on an on-going basis

The key questions within the 360 degree survey that will be asked of the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board were circulated at Appendix 2.

Vision and key Priorities of each of the six CCGs within Lancashire’s Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board were circulated at Appendix 3.

A copy of Greater Preston’s Clear and Credible Plan (CCP) was circulated at Appendix 4.

Resolved: The Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board noted the presentation and noted their role in the future authorisation of CCG Commissioning Plans.

It was noted that with regard to the HealthWatch item discussed at the previous Board meeting that a contract had now been awarded to a provider.  The timescales are to be determined between now and November of how HealthWatch will be implemented.

All main meetings are 1.45 pm tea, coffee and biscuits for a 2pm start. 

Next meeting 4 September 2012.

The programme of meetings was noted and it was noted that the next Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board meeting would be held on 4 September 2012 at 2pm in the Rowan Room, Woodlands Conference Centre, Chorley.