Agenda item

To establish appropriate governance arrangements to ensure the implementation of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The Board considered a report that sought to establish appropriate governance arrangements to ensure the implementation of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy (HWBS).

The Chief Officer: Adults and Joint Commissioning reported that the model strategy had been approved by the Board at the last meeting. The proposals included in this report set out to capitalise on existing structures to implement the strategy. It was proposed that three workstreams/groups be used to monitor and coordinate the implementation of the strategy:

• Prevention – Public Health Lead
• Intervention and Treatment – Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Lead
• Long Term Support – Children’s Social Care Lead

She reported that a communications plan was being prepared for the Board that would incorporate communications for the Joint HWBS.

Board members made the following comments:

• The chairman reiterated the importance of using the latest available data and it was agreed that the wording of the report would be revised to reflect this.
• It was envisaged that the workstreams would report to the Board on a quarterly basis through performance reports. Information would also be sent to Overview and Scrutiny, Executive Members and the CCG.
• If any impediments or barriers to sharing information were identified, these would be brought back to the Board for resolution.
• The Director of Children, Young People & Learning requested that children’s services be represented in the triangle of services presented on page 13 of the agenda papers.
• The Director of Adult Social Care, Health & Housing stated that the Board was charged with encouraging integration, the themed workstreams would contribute to this. The themes would entail a range of stakeholders coming together and undertaking cross cutting, joint work.
• The Director of Public Health stated that the Health & Wellbeing Strategy would be a key document when delivering improvements in public health. The Board would need to review the public health framework on a six monthly basis. The approach to governance was fine, the priorities would now need to be turned into action plans to implement the strategy. This would also address any concerns around children’s services.
• The Board made preliminary suggestions for leads of each workstream as follows:

-          Public Health Lead, Lisa McNally

-          CCG Lead, Dr William Tong/Mary Purnell or Rohal Malik

-          Adult/Children’s Social Care Lead, Zoë Johnstone/To be confirmed.

It was RESOLVED that;

i)                    the communications requirements in respect of the strategy be developed alongside those of the CCG and Health and Wellbeing Board, including consistent presentations at all relevant partnership boards and project/programme boards or equivalent. A provisional list of the relevant groups is attached at Annex A of the agenda papers.

ii)                   the implementation of the strategy be monitored and coordinated through three workstreams/groups, the focus of which will be:

·         Prevention – Public Health Lead

·         Intervention and Treatment – CCG Lead

·         Long Term Support – Children’s Social Care Lead

Progress will be reported to the Board via these workstreams/groups

iii)                 the leads/chairs of these workstreams/groups form the core of the group that will refresh/review the HWBS. This group to be chaired by a representative from Adult Social Care, Health & Housing.

iv)                 the relevant Board members nominate the chairs for the workstreams/groups and the strategy review group.