Agenda and minutes

Members are asked to declare any interests in the items under consideration and in doing so state:

(1) the type of interest concerned either a

(a)   personal interest

(b)   prejudicial interest

(c)   disclosable pecuniary interest (DPI)

and

(2) the nature of the interest concerned

If any member requires advice on declarations of interests, they are advised to contact the Head of Democratic Governance in advance of the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest on this occasion.

To agree the minutes of the last meeting held on 5 October 2022 as a true and correct record.

The Health and Wellbeing Board considered the minutes of the last meeting held on 5 October 2022.

Resolved:

That the minutes of the last meeting held on 5 October 2022 be approved and signed by the Chairman as a correct record.

To update the Health and Wellbeing Board on the new Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) project.

Pauline Wigglesworth, Health Determinants Research Collaboration Programme Director, provided the Board with a brief presentation on the new Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) project. Ms Wigglesworth explained that Blackpool Council had one of ten Councils and the only one in the North West England which had successfully bid to the National Institution for Health Research, the Council’s bid had been in partnership with Lancaster University, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals and Empowerment Charity. In the initial years of the Health Determinants Research Collaboration, activities would be aligned to the priorities of the Place-Based Partnership namely: Housing; The first 1001 days of life; Education, employment and skills; and Mental health; with Healthy Lifestyles being a part of all aspects of the research.

Members of the board offered congratulations to those involved on the successful bid. The Board noted that there were significant potential synergies with other developing strategies and the Board considered it very positive that the views of service users and others with lived experience would be central to the programme. The Board noted that while the research collaboration would be separate from other projects by its very nature having a robust evidence base on how things worked would result in strong bids for other funding streams and the chance to have the greatest potential impact.

Resolved:

1.   To support the Health Determinants Research Collaboration implementation and development over the next 5 years.

2.   To receive 6 monthly updates on Health Determinants Research Collaboration and agree that links be developed with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Joint Strategic Needs assessment.

To provide the Board with an update on the financial monitoring of the Blackpool Better Care Fund.

Lucia Plant, Better Care Fund Lead, provided the Board with an update on the financial monitoring of the Blackpool Better Care Fund. Ms Plant explained that it had not been possible to present the Better Care Fund planning template for 2022/23 to the Health and Wellbeing Board due to the short timescale for submission and the late receipt of amended statutory guidance. Councillor Farrell as the Chair had reviewed the planning template prior to approval and it had been agreed by the key partners- the Board’s approval of the template was therefore sought retrospectively. The Board noted that while approval and assurance by NHS England of the planning template remained outstanding it was not anticipated that were would be any issues in that regard.

Ms Plant explained that a new Section 75 agreement, which underpinned the Better Care Fund Plan had been required following the transfer of Clinical Commissioning Groups to Integrated Care Boards and that this revised agreement had been approved by the Council’s Executive at its meeting on the 5 December 2022.

Ms Plant provided a brief update on the financial reporting and asked board members to note that officers have been unable to submit a consolidated report for this financial year due to the continued delayed publication of the Better Care Fund Policy Statement. It remained clear however that the Better Care Fund was within its overall budget parameters as individual organisations (Blackpool Council and Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board) had still been monitoring their respective schemes as part of their own financial reporting requirements and through the Better Care Fund Monitoring Group. It was anticipated that a full budget monitoring would be presented to a future meeting of the Board.

Ms Plant then explained the imminent changes to the Better Care Fund with the newly announced Adult Social Care Discharge Fund proposed to be distributed via the Better Care Fund. The funding would be provided in 2 phases – the first (40%) in December 2022, and the second (60%) by the end of January 2023. In response to questions regarding the short timescales, Ms Plant and Karen Smith, Director of Adult Services, Blackpool Council and Director of Health Integration, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, explained that the use of the fund would involve the expansion of existing initiatives and schemes which already had a strong evidence of past success in addressing the issue.

The Board expressed satisfaction with the current delivery of the Better Care Fund but considered that given the importance of the Better Care Fund to the delivery of the Board’s objectives an update should be presented at least once every 6 months to the Board.

Resolved:

1.  To note the report and the brief verbal update summarised above in these minutes.

2.  To support the continuation of the Better Care Fund Monitoring Group which would be responsible for day to day monitoring and management of the Better Care Fund and require that body to report to the Health and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

This presentation explains the statutory requirement for the Health and Wellbeing Board to undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and the purpose of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.  The presentation then presents the impact of COVID-19 and current state of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and goes on to describe some of the challenges in maintaining the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. 

The Board received a presentation explains the statutory requirement for the Health and Wellbeing Board to undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and the purpose of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.  The presentation then presents the impact of COVID-19 and current state of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and goes on to describe some of the challenges in maintaining the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. 

Resolved:

1.     To note the presentation and the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

2.     To agree that the priorities on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment should mirror exactly those of the Place based strategy.

The 2021/22 Public Health Annual Report explores some of the important challenges faced by coastal communities and disadvantaged areas. Health outcomes in Blackpool are poor for many residents of the town, as can be seen in the factors explored in this report and more comprehensively in the Blackpool Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

The 2021/22 Public Health Annual Report explores some of the important challenges faced by coastal communities and disadvantaged areas. Health outcomes in Blackpool are poor for many residents of the town, as can be seen in the factors explored in this report and more comprehensively in the Blackpool Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

A large focus of this report looks at the challenges faced by people experiencing the most severe forms of disadvantage. These are people who experience problems with substance misuse, poor mental health, domestic violence, homelessness and offending.

Support services across Blackpool recognise the complex circumstances many people who need support find themselves in. This report describes many of the services designed to support people experiencing problems and how they try to take a holistic, multi-agency approach rather than focusing on one issue at a time.

Resolved:

To reflect on the findings of the Public Health Annual Report and in particularly consider the Recommendations for action.