Agenda item

Presentation – Habib Patel

Habib Patel, Lancashire County Council, gave a presentation on the Role and Function of the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board and the Strategy and Interventions, therefore Items 3 and 4 were considered together as a joint item.

Habib recapped what the Board brief to date has been:

Statutory Responsibilities:

—  To undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) of health and social care needs.

—  To use the JSNA to develop a joint high-level Health and Wellbeing Strategy ensuring public involvement in its development.

—  To co-ordinate NHS, social care and public health commissioning plans.

—  To promote integration between the NHS, public health and social care.

The Board also included:

—  Hold to account (performance manage).

—  Voice on behalf of the people of Lancashire on Health & Wellbeing related issues.

Habib stated that the next stage for the Board is to make the shift from the "thinking" stage to the "doing" stage.

Habib discussed the Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2012 – 2020 and explained that criteria from the Strategy has been used to assess the 10 Interventions that the Board chose to target.  Meetings have taken place since the last Board meeting with individuals to discuss which of the 10 Interventions chosen would be selected as the main Interventions for the Board to initially focus on.  From this the following four Interventions were chosen:

·  Loneliness in older people

·  Support for Carers

·  Affordable Warmth

·  Early response to domestic violence

The next stage for all partners is to look at their ways of working and determine what they can put forward, or offer, to support how the Board can make a difference to the four chosen Interventions.

Habib also stated that the outcomes for the Board to achieve by January 2013 are:

—  To ensure the role, function and leadership of the Board is understood by Board members (in the context of delivery of the strategy).

—  To ensure that Board members understand and are committed to the Health and Wellbeing strategy (what contribution the sector you represent will make and what contribution your organisation will make).

—  To ensure that the Health and Wellbeing interventions are underway and are delivering early results, (again what contribution board members will make to their success).

Habib also discussed the next steps for the Board as follows:

·  Dialogue with Board members to take place during December 2012 to discuss:

o  Leadership role in the delivery of the strategy

o  Understanding of role & responsibility 

o  Commitment from your sector/organisation

o  Strategy

o  H&WB interventions

o  Commitment to holding the system to account

Board members discussed and clarified what they see as their individual roles on the Board.  Board members made some comments regarding work that is taking place to align District Council functions to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy which the Board welcomed. 

Board members also discussed what they would like to see included in the discussions scheduled to take place in December and how this will shape the direction of the Board going forward:

·  Clear links between Commissioning Plans and the Boards Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

·  Utilising the various skills mix of the Board.

·  Assessment of needs and targeting of support where needed.

·  How the Board aligns itself around the four chosen Interventions.

·  Move from high level documentation to specific detail about each Intervention and how the Board is making a difference.

·  Move towards action that the Board can see is taking effect.

Resolved: The Board noted the presentation, agreed to support the four chosen Interventions as detailed and welcomed the opportunity to engage in further dialogue through a series of individual meetings to be held in December 2012.