Issue - meetings

The Panel considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Community Safety updating the Panel on progress made to date delivering against targets within the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

Councillor Shields (Cabinet Member for Health and Community Safety) Jason Horsley (Joint Director of Public Health for Southampton and Portsmouth) and Felicity Ridgeway (Service Lead - Policy, Partnerships and Strategic Planning) were in attendance and, with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.

The Panel discussed a number of matters including:

·  the need to develop proxy indicators to identify progress made in between the publication of national statistics;

·  the benefits of prioritising a smaller group of strategic measures within the dataset to drive improved outcomes.  The Panel were keen to see a strong emphasis on outcomes for children and young people and bridging inequalities within the population;

·  the need to understand the factors, for each indicator, that are contributing to the performance in Southampton;

·  the difficulty identifying an appropriate indicator to measure the impact of air quality on health outcomes in Southampton; and 

·  Panel Members suggested that officers should, when presenting this information to the Panel in the future, consider providing information by ward and how it can be made more visual through the use of infographics.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.