Agenda item - Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy Outcomes Measures

Joint report of the Director of Public Health and the Executive Director, Adult  Health and Social Care (copy attached)

RESOLVED – (1) That the Board approves the outcome measures for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy; and

(2) That the Board agrees the frequency of update  on progress against  the  outcomes measures, suggested six monthly.

13.1    The Board considered a report of the Head of Public Health detailing the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy – Outcomes Measures.

13.2    It was noted that Health and Wellbeing Boards had a duty to prepare a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for meeting needs identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). The Brighton and Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-30 had been approved by the Board in March 2019. It set out the vision that everyone in Brighton and Hove would have the best opportunity to live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life. The paper presented a high-level outcomes measures for the strategy, which had been amended in 2021 to reflect the wider impacts of Covid.

13.3    In answer to questions it was explained that it was recognised as being important to analyse how well Brighton and Hove were performing against the outcome measures and that this would be informed by engagement and measuring it against the 4 “wells”. In terms of “Dying Well”, there were very different levels of individual risk and work and plans were in place to develop work on that area over the next 12 months.

13.4    In answer to questions by Councillor Grimshaw it was explained that as a result of Covid 19 there would inevitably have been a deterioration of the base line over the last year and this needed to be taken account of.

13.5    RESOLVED – (1) That the Board approves the outcome measures for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy; and

(2) That the Board agrees the frequency of update on progress against the outcomes measures, suggested six monthly.