Agenda

RECOMMENDED that the minutes of the meeting of the Health & Wellbeing Board held on 21^st June 2017 be approved as a correct record.

This report will be presented by Claire Currie Claire, PCC Consultant in Public Health.

The Health and Wellbeing Board has a statutory responsibility to publish a statement of the needs for pharmaceutical services of the population in its area, referred to as a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA). A paper was brought to the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) on 21st June 2017 where the plan for refreshing the Portsmouth PNA was approved.

The regulations state that the HWB must undertake a consultation on the content of the PNA and it must run for minimum of 60 days. This paper presents the draft Portsmouth PNA (appendix 1) and seeks approval of the report for consultation from 23rd October to 22nd December 2017. It also seeks approval for the steering group to respond to consultations of PNA's from neighbouring areas on behalf of the HWB where the Portsmouth HWB is a statutory consultee and to ask the HWB to note the response

RECOMMENATIONS - The Health and Wellbeing Board is asked to:

(1) Approve the Draft Portsmouth Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) report for consultation from 23rd October to 22nd December 2017.

(2) Approve that the steering group respond to consultations of PNA's from neighbouring areas on behalf of the HWB where the Portsmouth HWB is a statutory consultee and ask the HWB to note the response.

This information report to be presented by Claire Currie Claire, PCC Consultant in Public Health

The purpose of the report is to note that the Director of Public Health is publishing his statutory annual report for 2016. The topic of this year's report is 'The stories behind the statistics', looking at the situations, attitudes, and experiences associated with health among particular groups.

The Public Health Annual Report summarises key findings about the health of Portsmouth's residents, considers implications for action, and makes recommendations.

(N.B. the PHAR document appended is still in draft)

The report by the Director of Public Health is to present to the Health and Wellbeing Board a discussion document as a basis for first stage consultation.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The Health and Wellbeing Board is recommended to:

(1)       Comment on the proposed principles, objectives and focus areas set out in Appendix A

(2)       Agree the proposals for next steps set out in section 5.

Please note that the next Health & Wellbeing Board meetings will be taking place on Wednesdays at 10am: 

·         29^th November 2017

·         21^st February 2018

Cllr Stubbs, as Joint Chair, agreed to the inclusion of this late information item.

A presentation will be made by Dr Nick Moore, Clinical Executive, NHS Portsmouth CCG.