Agenda item

(To receive a report from Chris Weston, Chairman of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Steering Group, which asks the Board to agree the recommendations arising from the review of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment)

Consideration was given to a report from Chris Weston, Chairman of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Steering Group, which provided recommendations arising from the review of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and asked for the agreement of the Board for those recommendations.

In addition to the programmes noted within the JSNA, the Board was advised that a new programme had been launched in relation to Diabetes Prevention.  This programme was the first of its kind in the world and was wave one of the rollout.  This was an exciting development for the county which would allow GPs to refer patients to the new service which provided tailored help for their diabetic requirements.

Since the last report was presented in December 2015, the Board were advised that 64 Stakeholder events had been held in addition to numerous stakeholder meetings which provided knowledge, opinions and thoughts in relation to the current JSNA.  Feedback around the proposed JSNA had been good although one of the key findings had been the concern that the document was perceived as a purely Public Health function as the shared responsibilities and ownership by statutory was not fully understood.

Current JSNA topics would form the basis of the fundamental review of the JSNA content during 2016/17 and the Board were advised that this review would be time limited to ensure that all topics had been considered.

During discussion, the Board raised the following issues:-

·       The Chairman suggested that the Board give consideration to List 3 of Appendix B to the report and advise the Programme Manager, Health and Wellbeing, of their agreement, or otherwise, of the topics suggested for inclusion;

·       Further to a recent meeting of the District Council's Health and Wellbeing Board, Councillor J Summers had been asked to provide comments on the document:-

o   There was concern regarding the level of the topics and the need for more promotions of the JSNA.  There was general support of the JSNA as presented;

o   A suggestion was made that the District Council Housing Network could be the expert panel for housing and the Board were assured that wherever a natural partnership or group were available to take the lead they would be asked to do so.  The proposal to use the District Council Housing Network was, therefore, fully supported to consider housing topics;

o   The need of veterans in the county was thought to be missing from the topics and that this should have a prominent role within the JSNA.  The Board were advised that a considerable amount of work was ongoing in relation to the Military Covenant and the inclusion of support to veterans;

o   It had been agreed at the Lincolnshire District Council Network Health and Wellbeing meeting that Luisa McIntosh and Alison Christie would be conduits for information across the District Councils;

o   It was suggested that the issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) should be included within the JSNA given the changing dynamic of populations across the country, despite this not being prevalent in Lincolnshire currently.  The Executive Director Children's Services explained that this was considered by the Safeguarding Children's Board which was responsible for making all partners aware of mandatory reporting requirements.  The inclusion of this area in to the JSNA would be considered should the demographic in the area change;

o   It was asked if the new definition of child poverty would be amalgamated within the JSNA and it was advised that there was not currently a topic specific to child poverty.  National work was ongoing to review the performance information gathered to measure the impact of child poverty.  It was stressed that all partners had a responsibility for child poverty but with different responsibilities attached.  Linking together on this issue was key and all partners fed back into the Lincolnshire Child Poverty Strategy;

·       Although the list of topics was considerable, the Board was assured that all Expert Panels would be time limited and where it was found that the work had been done previously, some would be shorter;

·       Current JSNA topics had been grouped in to review cohorts with staggered start dates, noted at Appendix C to the report.

The Chairman asked Board Members to report back to their own organisations and requested that anyone with expert knowledge in topic areas be proposed for those Expert Panels.

RESOLVED

1.    That the discussion and comments be noted;

2.    That the recommendations for the future provision of Lincolnshire's JSNA, at Section 4 of Appendix A to the report, be agreed; and

3.    That the comments of Board Members in relation to new JSNA Topics and those topics suggested by stakeholders noted on List 3 of Appendix B to the report be provided directly to the Programme Manager, Health and Wellbeing.