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To update the Board on the refresh of the West Yorkshire Partnership’s five-year strategy.

Contact:  Esther Ashman, Associate Director Strategy.

Esther Ashman, Associate Director, Strategy, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, provided the Health and Wellbeing Board with an update on the refresh of the West Yorkshire Partnership’s Five-Year Strategy. The Board was informed that the process has been designed and conducted by a group of people, which reflected the entirety of the partnership and included colleagues from Kirklees. There has been some positive feedback from a number of formal and informal groups who have been presented with the draft strategy.

The Partnership Board considered the draft in December 2022, and just a reminder that the Partnership Board as the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership owns this strategy, having considered the draft they are content with it. It is now being presented to all the Health and Wellbeing Boards, Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny and anyone else who would like to have comment on the strategy to get views. It will continue to be iterated before finalising in March 2023. There will also be a number of accessible versions that will be produced as part of this process.

Work is also being undertaken on developing the delivery plans, to set out how this strategy is going to be delivered. In West Yorkshire, the approach is to do this in conjunction with the development of more detailed operational plans for the coming year. The Board will be used to NHS England driving an operational planning process each year,  and the aim is to ensure that all these things are tied in together. The two processes will be brought together to tell the story of how the strategy will be delivered.

The five-year strategy has been set, and the five-year plan is being developed including the detail of the first year. By bringing that first year detail in through the operational plan, it will ensure that the work is prioritised and phased in the right way over the coming five years. The refresh of the Joint Forward Plan has to be undertaken every year, and that will sit alongside the operational planning each year. There is a requirement to engage with the Board as part of that process each year.

The Joint Forward Plan is a national requirement and is a statutory duty of the Integrated Care Board to develop the Joint Forward Plan. It has a deadline for completion of the 30^th June, however, given there will be an election period in mid-March, the aim is to get as near as possible a detailed draft by the end of March, to iterate and finalise by the end of June.

There are a number of requirements in the Joint Forward Plan guidance, including working and engaging with Health and Wellbeing Boards, which is already being done in West Yorkshire and will continue to bring updates and drafts to the Board for comments as it is developed. The Joint Forward Plan is designed to be fully aligned with a wider systems partnership ambitions, known in West Yorkshire as the 10 big ambitions,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 45