The Board:
Received the report of the Director of Public Health and noted:
(i) The questions the DPH posed in Appendix 1 of the report and the need for the Partners to investigate those issues and find solutions in improving the health and wellbeing of residents:
(ii) The potential of the Council’s newly created Community Solutions Service to add value and opportunity to delivering health outcomes;
(iii) The DPH’s focus on the issue of serious youth violence, especially in Chapter 1, which has been set out against the backdrop of a significant increase in serious youth violence involving assaults with knives and noxious substances and the need to break the effects of domestic violence and abuse;
(iv) Chapter 2 set out the challenge to provide the support our children need to become more resilient to mental health issues and the day-to-day role that teachers, social workers and other professionals need to play in this;
(v) Chapter 3 highlighted the use of devolved powers to deliver better health and care outcomes for our residents and the challenges in establishing an accountable care system based on ‘place based care’ that evolves our thinking beyond care to one that has concern for the causes of poor health rather than the effects;
(vi) Chapter 4 reminded the Board that it is now the fourth year for the Public Health Grant and reviewed the evidence and analysed how the Grant has been used to contain or reducing the costs of health and social care without negative effects on health outcomes and the returns against expenditure;
(vii) The challenges that 10,800 extra homes at Barking Riverside will provide in future health care provision and the progress made in regard to the Barking Riverside NHS Healthy New Town initiative to help “design in” health and modern care from the outset and a how the learning from many initiatives could be rolled-out to other areas of the Borough to shape places to radically improve population health, integrate health and care services, and offer new digital and virtual care fit for the future;
(viii) Agreed that Chair would invite a group of young people that she has been working with to address a future meeting of the Board.