Agenda item - Health Counts: Publication; HWB Partnership Event; and Next Steps

Report of the Director of Public Health (copy attached).

10.1    This item was presented by Louise Knight, Senior Public Health Intelligence and Research Specialist; Nigel Sherriff, Professor of Public Health and Health Promotion, University of Brighton; and Chas Walker, Programme Director, Integrated Service Transformation.

10.2    Board members were updated on the findings of the Health Counts survey, on the outcomes of the recent HWB Health Counts workshop event, and on planned next steps.

10.3    Stephen Lightfoot told the Board that Health Counts was a highly successful survey. However, what really matters is the use to which the data gathered is put. There is an opportunity here to use this new data to inform a refresh of the local Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy.

10.4    Tom Lambert noted that some of the variance between the Health Counts findings and those from other sources (e.g. Census) is significant and asked whether there was confidence that Health Counts methodology was robust. Professor Sherriff replied that the Health Counts data has been weighted by sex, age and deprivation quintile. He is confident that the weighted sample is representative of the city population and would be happy to share more detail of survey methodology which is included in a technical report which accompanies the survey report.

10.5    RESOLVED – that the report be noted.