Issue - meetings

The Board at its meeting in March 2018 endorsed the process for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2019-2023. In September 2018 the Board were updated on the development work including the outcomes and measures which emerged from a series of workshops based on the three strategic themes, namely: 

·  Best Start in Life

·  Early Diagnosis and Intervention

·  Building Resilience

In total nine outcomes emerged which were presented to the Board to consider and prioritise. A number of observations were made and the overall view was that the objectives were too broad in definition and would benefit from grouping together, and from which specific measures could then be agreed.

Taking the above into account the Director of Public Health presented an update on the work to develop the Strategy, through which the Board confirmed its wish to include a tenth objective on Domestic Abuse. This will be an important focus, and the Chair emphasised that all agencies needed to be challenged, together with the local community to give this the priority it deserves. 

The Chair felt that the format of the Strategy is now shaping up as an easy to understand document with the associated measures linked to each of the objectives continuing to evolve. The CCG will be using it to shape its own approach as it works towards achieving financial sustainability over the next 2/3 years. An update to the Board on progress in this respect will be presented in January 2019. 

A range of observations were made on the implementation of the Strategy as a way of engaging the local community. The Board sought to have the concept of ‘trauma informed’ approaches clarified so that it was easier to understand what this means. Comments were also expressed on parts of the narrative of the document which the Director of Public Health will take onboard, in the light of which

The Board resolved to approve the draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-2023, as set out at Appendix 2 to the report, for an eight-week period of public consultation, subject to the inclusion of a tenth outcome of ‘Domestic Abuse’ as well as a number of word changes as highlighted at the meeting.