Agenda item - Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy (JLHWS) Outcome Measures: Update March 2023

Report of the Executive Director, Adult Social Care & Health (copy attached)

RESOLVED - (1) That the Board notes the current trend status of the JH&WS outcome measures; and

(2) That the Board notes that they will receive future updates at each meeting to reflect different “Wells” at each meeting accompanied by a brief narrative to provide a more integrated council-wide understanding of the outcomes.

41.1    The Board considered a report of the Director of Public Health providing the Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy Outcome Measures Update.

41.2    It was explained that Health and Wellbeing Boards have a duty to prepare a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy to describe the vision and strategic aims to address the population needs identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. The Brighton & Hove Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-30 had been approved by the Board in March 2019. It set out the vision: ‘Everyone in Brighton & Hove will have the best opportunity to live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life’. The overarching outcomes measures were to enable people to live more years in good health (reversing the current falling trend in healthy life expectancy) and to reduce the gap in healthy life expectancy between people living in the most and least disadvantaged areas of the city.

The purpose of this paper was to provide:

·         An update on the agreed outcome measures identified in the Health and Wellbeing Strategy

·         Advises on the programme of updates for subsequent Health and Wellbeing Boards.

41.3    Councillors Appich and Robins commended the report, stressing that they considered it was important going forward to continue to provide these regular updates so that it was clear how they dovetailed with the council’s other overarching strategies.

41.4    Councillor Shanks, the Chair, concurred explaining that it was  with that aim in view that it was intended that the Board will receive future updates at each meeting to reflect different “wells” .    

41.5    RESOLVED - (1) That the Board notes the current trend status of the JH&WS outcome measures; and

(2) That the Board notes that they will receive future updates at each meeting to reflect different “Wells” at each meeting accompanied by a brief narrative to provide a more integrated council-wide understanding of the outcomes.