Issue - meetings

The Board received a report from Jon Topham and Claire McIver on maximising the role of the Staffordshire Health and Wellbeing Board, particularly it’s forward plan and strategy.

The Health and Wellbeing Board approved the Strategy in June 2022, with the overarching outcomes being to reduce infant mortality, and increase healthy life expectancy. It was agreed at the June meeting that four priorities would be reported on annually (namely, Health in Early Life; Good Mental Health; Healthy Weight; and Healthy Ageing). A Board Sponsor had been identified for each.

The Forward Plan for the Health and Wellbeing Board is largely determined by strategic issues and tends to be built around the following components:

·         Statutory duties

·         Updates on the four key priorities identified in the strategy

·         Other Strategy documents

·         Better Care Fund

·         Partner updates

Board Sponsors for each priority and named lead officers were provided to the Board:

A provisional arrangement for each strategy priority to be reported back to the Board had been devised:

·         March – Healthy Ageing and Frailty

·         June – Healthy Weight

·         September – Health in Early Life

·         December – Good Mental Health

Other items, such as the Director for Public Health annual report and Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment would be included on the agenda at the agreement of the Chair.

The Board were supportive of the approach outlined in the report.

The Board were informed of the intention to take a report to the next meeting of the Staffordshire Leaders Board on Health Inequalities.

Resolved – That the Board (a) confirm and agree Board Sponsors and Officer Leads for the Strategy;

(b) Be reminded that Leads will be asked to report on the performance metrics and actions signed off by the Board;

(c) Review and approve the cycle of reporting on the strategy priorities, and communicate this to the identified leads; and

(d) Review and approve the forward plan timetable.