Issue - meetings

The Board will receive an update on the Kirklees Health and Wellbeing Strategy (KHWS) approach, and an update on the following priorities:

-      Mental Wellbeing Update

-      Connected Care and Support

-      Healthy Places

Contact: Alex Chaplin Strategy & Policy Officer, Lucy Wearmouth Acting Head of Improving Population Health, Lisa Waldron Public Health Manager,  Rachel Millson Senior Strategic Planning and Development Manager Rebecca Elliott Public Health Manager and Paul Howatson Programme Manager – Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

Alex Chaplin gave a brief update on the Kirklees Health and Wellbeing Strategy (KHWS), advising that following feedback from the March Board meeting regarding the approach, the intention is to reaffirm the approach to the updates.

The Board was reminded that at the sign off for the KHWS in September 2022,  the Board asked for an in-depth update on one priority, and summary updates on the other two priorities at each meeting rotating.

At today’s meeting, the main priority update will be on Healthy Places, and a summary update with a RAG rating will cover Connected Care and Mental wellbeing.

The priority update will include:

-      A general overview of work under the priority and optional area(s) to highlight in detail, successes, challenges, and requests for support

The two summary updates will be brief, limited to one slide each and may include:

-      A general overview, an area to highlight, successes, challenges, and requests for support

The intention is to assess how the update is working, and if required, undertaken a review at the September 2023, board meeting.

Mental Health

Rebecca Elliot, Public Health Manager, gave a brief update on the Mental Health priority, advising that a further, more detailed update will be provided at the July board meeting.

The Board was reminded that the last mental health deep dive was in January 2023, where information was presented on the Primary Care mental health transformation piece of work, and the aim of today’s summary update is to share some of the successes. There is now a new serious mental illness and physical health and wellness team across Kirklees, which is inviting people who are on the serious mental illness register to attend for a physical health check with their GP.  In some Primary Care Networks, this is already having a significant impact, and this might be an area that the Board may want to hear more about in July.

In terms of suicide prevention, we are in the middle of a really insightful and successful suicide bereavement quilt roadshow, which is taking place across many  different communities in Kirklees, this will conclude on the 6th of July. It has proved fruitful and insightful to hear from  communities about having conversations around suicide in the district and tackling that stigma. That has been really positive.


One of the VCS organisations, Community Links, has a project called ‘Men's Talk,’ which is providing a mental health theatrical production around lived experience of mental health, which is now receiving national recognition.  It is important to  show that there are some new innovative ways of talking about mental health.
 

In terms of milestones coming up, a review of mental health community options contract is being undertaken, and just linking in with the DPH report on poverty, it is recognised that, poverty is both a cause and consequence of mental health.

With any commissioning that is about to be embarked upon,  it will be important to think about poverty and looking through the poverty lens  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8