Agenda item

Report ENV655 of the Business Manager Environmental Health.

(Enclosure)

The Business Manager Environment presented report ENV655 on the proposed Engagement Plan for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Lincolnshire.  The report outlined the Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board Engagement Plan for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Lincolnshire which was due to be published in 2018.

It was noted that the Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board (LHWB) had a statutory duty to produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS).  A duty within this Strategy was to develop engagement with people who lived and worked in Lincolnshire in order to provide them with an opportunity to contribute to the Strategy and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). This would also provide the required evidence to support the prioritisation of health needs.

The following principles for communications with stakeholders were proposed:

·         To have a better understanding of local need in order to ensure that services delivered were appropriate and effective;

·         To work with other organisations and the public to identify the key issues and needs of the community on an ongoing basis so these could be addressed  together;

·         To involve people in Lincolnshire so they could help inform the local priorities in order that work could be undertaken to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community and reduce health inequalities.

A series of engagement events were being proposed and would be based on the evidence of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).  These would enable the Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board (LHWB) to identify health and wellbeing priorities and form the basis of the next Joint Health and Wellbeing (JHWB) strategy. 

A three stage engagement process was proposed:

The Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board (LHWB)had been asked to nominate a lead officer from each representative organisation on the Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board (LHWB)to undertake this exercise. The nominated lead officers from the organisational members would review the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) evidence and draft priorities to be included in the next Joint Health and Wellbeing (JHWB) strategy. 

Public engagement events were to be undertaken across the county where a  similar prioritisation exercise would take place. The LCC Health Scrutiny Committee would review the initial work and feedback to the Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board (LHWB).

Discussion and moderation of the prioritisation would then be undertaken by Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board (LHWB) members and the wider stakeholders at an informal LHWB session.

Members would be provided with an update on the nominations and public engagement dates.

Members were informed that only 2 local authorities had fed back to county and SKDC was one of them.  The outcomes from the PDG’s previous consideration of the graduation status exercise had highlighted a number of areas already identified by county.  Although SKDC was not at the table it had been important to feedback areas of concern within the district in order that the appropriate action could be put in place to address these areas.  Areas of concern were childhood and adult obesity, diabetes and winter deaths.

In response to a members query regarding targets, it was noted that at this stage, Members were being provided with a flavour of the work being undertaken.  Further updates would be provided at future meetings.

Action note:

          That the Communities PDG note the update and looked forward to receiving updates on the nominations and engagement dates.