To: West Kent Health and Wellbeing Board
From: Yvonne Wilson, Health and Wellbeing Partnerships Officer
Date: 18 October 2016
Subject: Update on Implementing the Health and Wellbeing Board Annual Report Recommendations
1. Introduction
This report provides the Board with a brief update on progress in delivering on the ambitions outlined in the Board’s Annual Report. Following on the July Board meeting a number of steps were taken to deliver on the following decisions agreed by the Board:
o Carry out a review of the recommendations and proposed work plan in detail and bring key issues back to an all Board member facilitated away-day’ event on 16 September and agree the way forward. ACTION: BB/YW
o To consider ways of strengthening CCG engagement with local councils (Discuss with CCG lead officers what potential opportunities exist to progress CCG business priorities by working more collaboratively with district and borough councils)
o Invite district and borough council officers to participate in the CCG ‘Town Hall’ where the whole CCG staff come together to consider organisation-wide development.
o Careful thought needed to be given to making sure the efforts of the Local Children’s Partnership Groups (LCPGs) were acknowledged and supported by the HWB which also has a duty to carefully consider how to establish strategic links with these and other strategic partnerships. It was agreed that this issue should feed into the work to strengthen the HWB’s effectiveness.
2 Implementation
2.1 Preparing for the Future: Officer Development Event 16 August 2016
2.1.1 A half – day workshop was held involving the WK HWB Chair, Public Health Consultant and sixteen senior officers from across health and local council sectors. The workshop included a series of presentations in which officers outlined:
· Policy Landscape: National Drivers
· NHS (including new primary care strategy)
· Local Authority
· District Authority
· Public Health Assessment – View across West Kent
· Strategic priorities: delivery of the STP
2.1.2 Round table discussions identified a number of important areas/issues:
· Barriers to effective Partnerships/Shared Ownership
· Shared Leadership/Ownership Challenges
· How the Barriers might be overcome
Emerging ideas, topics and issues to be fed into a future Board Development Event.
2.1.3 Chair and NHS West Kent CCG Accountable Officer arranging visits with each of the four District/Borough Council Chief Executives.
2.2 Relationships with Local Children’s Partnership Groups
2.2.1 Chair held a series of one-to one meetings with 3 out of four Local Children’s Partnership Group Chairs and a further round-table discussion with all the chairs took place – though only two LCPG Chairs attended due to unplanned urgent commitments.
2.2.2 Discussions focussed on understanding developments within the specific LCPG and work underway to focus delivery on local priorities and outcomes. LCPG chairs discussed ways for the HWB to assist their work and ambitions and vice versa. Agreement reached on the value of open dialogue with HWB Chair and commitment to further reflect on the role that the HWB has on influencing changes/developments in services via the commissioning route.
2.3 Board Development Event
2.3.1 Whole Board development event scheduled for 17 January 2017 with an opportunity for focused work on many of the issues highlighted at the Officer’s Development event in August 2016.
3. Recommendation
3.1 That the Board discuss and note the developments outlined in the report and seek further timely updates on relevant issues at future Board meetings.