Issue - meetings

To provide an update to the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) on the Kirklees Health and Wellbeing Strategy (KHWS) priority of ‘Connected Care and Support.

Contact:  Rachel Millson, Senior Planning and Development Manager.

Rachel Millson, Senior Strategic Planning and Development Manager, advised the Board that the discussion would focus on some of the delivery of the Connected Care and Support priority within the Kirklees Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The Board was informed that the Health and Care Plan, outlines how the Kirklees Health and Care Partnership will work together to drive change in response to national, regional and local directives. It does support the delivery of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and some of the strategic documents that are developed for West Yorkshire, alongside the  West Yorkshire Delivery Plan which is the Joint Forward Plan. There are metrics, initial metrics that are within the document, which have been developed in the context  of the outcomes framework which supports the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The initial document was signed off by the ICB Committee in May 2023, and a commitment was made that it would be a live plan. It is recognised that things change and evolve, therefore the aim was to ensure that rather than starting with a new draft of the strategy every year, there would be a commitment to update and evolve the plan. Just to reinforce that the delivery is overseen by the Delivery Collaborative and all the partners who work within health and care have a seat on that delivery collaborative.

Referring to the presentation slides, the Board was advised of the system wide, strategic priorities that are within the plan, cuts across the life course approach, as outlined in the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, Starting Well, Living Well, and Aging Well programmes. Dying Well is a programme in its own right, however, it is considered in each of the other programmes and mental wellbeing, which can affect an individual at any point of the life course.

There are partnership strategic priorities and then there are organisational level priorities that are national directives to focus on in the short term, listed as priority actions including:

-      Improving access to health and care

-      Holistic approach to out of hospital care

-      Crisis response

-      Workforce

Patrick Boosey, Transformation Programme Manager ICB, provided an update on the Starting Well Programme. The Board was advised that the Starting Well Board, has an alignment with the Children and Young People’s priorities and the subsequent resource to deliver these. It is a single place for existing Boards and groups to report to, enhancing partnership working, facilitating development of relationships, connected decision making and reducing duplication across the partnership. It is a forum to discuss complicated system wide strategic issues and  opportunities to share learning and risk.

It is a single assurance mechanism to support decision taking processes, development of a system wide work plan, supporting groups such as the Ambition Board. It is a contact for West Yorkshire level work, for example, the Integrated Care System, alignment of data and intelligence, where there is qualitative information e.g. Children and Young People’s Voice, and quantitative information and numerical shared data sets. It is a  ...  view the full minutes text for item 11