Agenda item
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy - Thematic Update (Staying Healthy)
To receive a thematic update on the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Minutes:
Melanie Smith (Director of Public Health, Brent Council) explained that this report was being presented as one of the 5 key themes of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS) following its approval in March 2022. She hoped the Board would note the progress made against the commitments in the 2022-23 action plan and the breadth of that commitment in terms of key stakeholders such as the ICS, provider organisations, Adult Social Care, Children and Young People, and Public Health. She felt that the breadth of the commitment reflected the ambition the Health and Wellbeing Board had expressed in refreshing the JHWS.
In introducing the report, Melanie Smith advised that this was the first time the JHWS progress had been presented in this way and welcomed any feedback for future update presentations. In future, officers were working to quantify some of the achievements and impacts of this particular theme, and commit to having a more explicit focus on action to address health inequalities in order to demonstrate the difference the Strategy was having.
The Chair invited contributions from those present, with the following issues raised:
- In relation to paragraph 3.27, Gail Tolley (Strategic Director Children and Young People, Brent Council) advised that the meetings being referenced were professionals meetings, with learning from parents and carers through the parent and carers forum and parent and carer representation.
- The Board felt that the content of the report on ‘staying healthy’ was focused on staying healthy in a medical way, and noted there were much broader ways people stayed healthy including through social prescribing. Melanie Smith felt this was a fair assessment and when the update on the ‘healthy lives’ theme was brought to the Board she hoped that the attention to health in its wider sense was more evident.
- Board members requested further details be brought back to the Board on how the strategy would robustly address health inequalities.
RESOLVED: to note the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS) thematic update.
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