Issue - meetings

The Health Improvement Group (HIG) was a sub group of the Health and Well-being Board. The meetings were well attended apart from the police due to operational pressures and the VCS who were in the process of appointing a representative.

The Group had considered various things:

·       the annual update of the Joint Health and Well-being Strategy,

·       the development and delivery of the Worcester City Plan – the delivery of courses to BAME groups such as cooking and finance; statutory services around homelessness and air pollution; the dementia dwelling grant pilot and community connectors scheme, where people could drop in and hear about local opportunities

·       Redditch reported on entry level sports development, VCS grants, and mapping local assets

·       Wychavon – Tesco Evesham events, dementia alliance in and narrowing health inequalities

·       The Annual Report had been produced and showed that the Group was active but organisations needed to remain engaged

·       The Dementia dwelling Grant

·       Warmer Worcestershire Partnership Group

·       CCG update on neighbourhood teams

·       Charter for Homeless Health

As agreed at the last Health and Well-being Board a Prevention Board would be set up and District Councils should have a role on that. Work was on-going on how the Board would look but it would concentrate on a community asset approach.

During the discussion the following main points were made:

·       The title of the relevant Cabinet Member at Wychavon District Council had been changed and now included the phrase 'Health and Well-being'

·       The HIG provided a good opportunity for District Councils to become engaged in the operational work as they had a huge role to play in health and well-being with leisure centres and other well-being services

·       The Cabinet Member for Education and Skills was pleased that the Secretary of State was now speaking about prevention, and was interested to see what decisions were made about how to fund prevention

·       It was clarified that the Prevention Board came from the Director of Public Health Report where the three main strands were creating healthy places; helping people to help themselves and their communities; and prevention services. The scope of the Prevention Board was still being considered but it may meet once or twice to start a programme of work; it would not be an operational Board

·       District input was important and would be needed on the Prevention Board around issues such as licensing and planning

·       A query was raised about insulating houses with no cavities. Enquiries would continue outside the meeting.

RESOLVED that the Health and Well-being Board:

a)     Considered and commented on progress made by the HIG between April 2018 and October 2018;

b)    Supported the scaling up of prevention activities in the priority areas and considered how the Prevention Board proposed within the DPH  Annual report could work alongside district level achievements;

c)     Agreed that each organisation represented by the Board should play an active part in the delivery of the Joint Health and Well-being Strategy and fully participate in providing the necessary updates and information for the reporting of progress.