Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Quality and Integration detailing the update of the Southampton City Five Year Health & Care Strategy.

The Board considered the report of the Director of Quality and Integration detailing the updates to the Southampton City Five Year Health & Care Strategy.

Clare Young - Programme Management Office Manager, NHS Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group; Dan King - Service Lead Intelligence & Strategic Analysis, Southampton City Council; Felicity Ridgeway - Service Lead Policy, Partnerships and Strategic Planning, Southampton City Council; Richard Crouch - Chief Operations Officer (Customer Experience), Southampton City Council and Dave Stewart, Leader and Cabinet Member for Strategic Partnerships, Isle of Wight Council, were present and with the consent of the chair addressed the Board.

The Board noted that the strategy:

• was a draft and remained a work in progress
• looked at how indicators of deprivation had affected health and outcomes in the city, such as impact on life expectancy, respiratory health, diabetes, mental health, depression, breastfeeding, smoking during pregnancy, smoking inactivity, looked after children, unemployment, crime
• looked at how indicators of deprivation had affected health care usage
• identified that the main causes of death were cancer, circulatory disease and respiratory disease
• considered the population forecast, long term conditions forecasting and adult social care forecasting
• had been developed in partnership with NHS Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group, Southampton City Council, health and care service providers and the voluntary sector
• had a strategic framework with four main programmes of work – start well, live well, age well and die well
• Better Care Southampton would be the governance group of the strategy
• was a strategy for the city that was aligned with the Council’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy

The Board also noted that there had been reasonable involvement of the public within specific groups and that there would be wider consultation with service users.

RESOLVED that the board members would provide feedback on the draft Southampton City Five Year Health and Care Strategy and their comments would be sent directly to Claire Young – Programme Management Office Manager, NHS Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group.