Agenda and minutes

To elect a Chairman for the Health & Wellbeing Board for the municipal year 2018-19.

RESOLVED that Cllr Dale Birch be elected Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board for the municipal year 2018/19.

To appoint a Vice-Chairman for the Health & Wellbeing Board for the municipal year 2018-19.

RESOLVED that Philip Cook be appointed Vice-Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board for the municipal year 2018/19.

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest.

There were no urgent items of business.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Board held on 6 March 2018.

The minutes of the meeting held on 6 March 2018 were approved as a correct record.

There were no matters arising.

QUESTIONS: If you would like to ask a question you must arrive 15 minutes before the start of the meeting to provide the clerk with your name, address and the question you would like to ask. Alternatively, you can provide this information by email to the clerk at committee@bracknell-forest.gov.uk at least two hours ahead of a meeting. The subject matter of questions must relate to an item on the Board’s agenda for that particular meeting. The clerk can provide advice on this where requested.

PETITIONS: A petition must be submitted a minimum of seven working days before a Board meeting and must be given to the clerk by this deadline. There must be a minimum of ten signatures for a petition to be submitted to the Board. The subject matter of a petition must be about something that is within the Board’s responsibilities. This includes matters of interest to the Board as a key stakeholder in improving the health and wellbeing of communities.

The Board received the following question:

In reference to agenda item 11 (CCG public engagement update), where will the public engagement events referenced in the update be advertised?

It was agreed that this question be answered offline, however the Board was informed that the public engagement events had been advertised online and through partners’ social media channels.

There were no actions reported.

Mira Haynes updated the Board on the red flagged care establishments, and advised that letters had been sent to all clients affected. The homes were being carefully monitored and action plans were in place. The CQC had rated the home as ‘Requires Improvement’, which was disappointing as the home was newly opened. Bracknell Forest was acting to assist the home.

Philip Cook commented that Involve had recently launched Bracknell Forest Get Involved, a new volunteering portal. Partners were asked to use the portal to advertise their volunteering opportunities. A meeting was being arranged for volunteer co-ordinators across partner organisations to promote the portal, and a marketing strategy was being developed.

Gill Vickers informed the Board that Lisa McNally had been formally appointed as Director of Public Health for Bracknell Forest.

Dr William Tong informed the Board that Dr Andy Brooks was now the Accountable Officer for both Surrey Heath and East Berkshire CCGs. William confirmed that the joining of the three East Berkshire CCGs would not impact on the quality of data collected for Bracknell Forest.

To note a briefing note from the CCG on public engagement.

The Board noted the CCG public engagement update.

It was commented that the alignment with the ICS Alliance Board’s messaging strategy would be critical.

It was reiterated that the engagement was not a formal consultation process and no decisions on the future of urgent care had been made yet.

The Board welcomed the subsequent inclusion of evening engagement sessions.