Issue - meetings

At its meeting in March 2018 the Board endorsed the process for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2019-2023 including incorporating an ‘I’ statements approach to achieving real outcomes for local communities.

The report and accompanying presentation from officers in Public Health  provided an update on the development work of the Strategy including the outcomes of a series of resident focus groups to formulate the statements and stakeholder workshops which looked at outcomes and measures of the three themes of the Strategy, namely:

·  Best Start in Life

·  Early Diagnosis and Intervention

·  Building Resilience

Due to the difficulties in defining the meaning of resilience for different groups of residents, the latter workshop focused on getting a consensus from which a total of 10 outcomes have been produced, and which were presented to the Board to consider and prioritise. A number of observations were made with an overall consensus that the objectives are too broad in definition and would benefit from grouping together, and from which specific measures can then be agreed.

In terms of the next steps, taking onboard the above comments, officers will refine the draft strategy for presentation at the Board in November for approval to go out to public consultation. Final approval will then be sought from the Board in January 2019.