Agenda item

Purpose

To receive from Dr Andrew Mortimore, Interim Director of Public Health, a report which highlights the findings from the Joint Strategy Needs Assessment (JSNA) Annual Summary for 2013 and considers how the issues highlighted in the JSNA can inform the board's priorities and the new Health and Well Being Strategy for 2014, taking into account the wider socio-economic and environmental determinants of poor health.

RECOMMENDED that the HWB:

·         Agree that the summary of key issues set out in the JSNA identifies the key challenges for improving the health and wellbeing of Portsmouth's residents.

·         Note that members of the HWB have the opportunity to make more detailed contributions as part of the consultation on the JSNA which runs until the end of January 2014

·         Agree that, in principle, the scope of the Joint Health and Well Being Strategy should be broadened during the refresh in 2014 to cover wider issues impacting on health and wellbeing as set out in the remainder of the report.

(TAKE IN REPORT AND PRESENTATION)

The Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board welcomed the newly appointed Director of Public Health for Portsmouth, Janet Maxwell who was about to take up the role.  The Chair then invited Dr Andrew Mortimore, the interim Director of Public Health to provide his presentation. Dr Mortimore explained that the summary version was 60 pages long but that this had been further reduced into the slides being presented at the meeting today.  He said that there was a need to focus on those things which have to be improved.  There were many positives, but the slides focused on matters that were particularly challenging. 

RESOLVED that the Health & Wellbeing Board

(1)          agrees that the summary of key issues set out in the JSNA (Section 3.2) identifies the key challenges for improving the health and wellbeing of Portsmouth's residents;

(2)          notes that members of the Health & Wellbeing Board have the opportunity to make more detailed contributions as part of the consultation on the JSNA which runs until the end of January 2014; and

(3)          agrees that in principle, the scope of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy should be broadened during the refresh in 2014 to cover wider issues impacting on health and wellbeing as set out in the remainder of the report.

The Chair explained that the meeting today would be followed by a series of workshops to which members of the public had been invited to consider the breadth of issues as raised at today's meeting.

Following the workshops, feedback was provided to members of the HWB and other participants:

'Better housing, Better Health - how housing can help professionals achieve better outcomes for their residents'

• frontline staff need information about services for the whole person so they can give joined up support and advice
• a number of positive things to build on were noted, including collation and locality working
• more could be done to plan for the future e.g. home adaptations to prevent falls, getting people to think about their future housing needs.

'Communities and Health Workshop: working with communities, making the most of community assets and skills'

• need to engage people with positive hooks, not approaches that stigmatise
• need to work strategically with existing community assets, organisations and networks, and focus on where people choose to come together rather than providing new 'services' to attract them

'Making Every Contact Count (MECC)'

• staff need easily accessible and up to date information, plus training to confidently manage the response when other issues are raised outside of their professional competence.
• People support the idea of 'MECC' - the HWB can help by providing strong leadership and by developing an integrated information strategy.

A summary of the content of the workshops will be sent out with the quarterly HWB newsletter.

Cllr Madden thanked everyone for their contributions to the workshops. He noted that this will be last meeting of Portsmouth's HWB for Dr Andrew Mortimore. On behalf of the HWB, Cllr Madden thanked Andrew for stepping in to support Portsmouth alongside his work with Southampton, and for all his hard work on behalf of the city.