Subject: Advancing Health Equity in Brighton & Hove

Date of meeting: 28 March 2024

Proposer: Councillor Tristram Burden

Seconder: Councillor Ty Galvin

Ward(s) affected: All

Notice of Motion

Labour Group

This council notes:

1) The health of Brighton & Hove’s population is one of our most vital assets.

2) Since 2010, the amount of time people spend in poor health has increased across England.

3) In our city some areas are in the 20% most deprived areas in England, while others have double the amount of average income, and these extremes of affluence and deprivation create significant disparities in health outcomes, wellbeing and qualities of life.

4) People in the most disadvantaged parts of Brighton & Hove spend more than twelve years longer in poor health than people from the least disadvantaged areas.

5) More policy interventions can mitigate health inequalities across our city.

Therefore, Full Council resolves to call for an officer report to the Health & Wellbeing Board which addresses the following:

6) How the council can advance their work on health equity across the city

7) Results of continued work in close partnership with the NHS to enhance health equity with targeted place-based models

8) Explorations of the frameworks and policies that Coventry introduced to become a Marmot city and how Cheshire and Merseyside became a Marmot Region.

9) How more policy interventions can be explored to mitigate health inequalities across our city, and an exploration of new performance indicators to ensure measurable progress.

10) Implications of embedding new health equity considerations into all council policy to ensure the best health outcomes for Brighton & Hove’s most vulnerable and deprived populations.

Supporting Information:

Local data

JSNA Executive Summary May 2023.pdf (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Local strategies

Council Plan 2023-2027 Outcome 3: A healthy city where people thrive (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Health and Adult Social Care Directorate Plan 2023 to 2027  (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Brighton & Hove Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-2030 (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy - Outcome measures update Final.pdf (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

2.6 The strategy states our overarching ambition that by 2030:

· People will live more years in good health (reversing the current falling

trend in healthy life expectancy) and

· The gap in healthy life expectancy between people living in the most and