Decision details

Use of non-recurrent public heath monies to help re-shape and improve resilience in the Sheffield Public Health Service, contribute to the successful delivery of the SCC One Year Plan and continue to target the ambitions in the Health & Wellbeing Strategy

1.    Contribution to the Compassionate City partnership to strengthen and link assets already present in communities across Sheffield to allow the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of all affected to be met in the most appropriate way.

2.    Test out the PHE strengthening communities framework in a neighbourhood to develop voice and activation

3.    Trial lifestyle support and advice in the pre-anaesthetic pathway as part of pre-operative checks

4.    Developing peer support between people with specific conditions

5.    Workforce development for voluntary sector organisations

It has been long understood that health and wellbeing is determined by the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work and age as well as medical support.  Therefore education, employment, housing, social networks are as important to the life chances and living with long term good health and wellbeing.

Marked inequalities in health and wellbeing outcomes existed prior to the pandemic, however Covid-19 has exacerbated these by disproportionately impacting on the mental health and wellbeing of young people, ethnic minorities, and those on low incomes

That the Executive Member for Sustainable Neighbourhoods, Wellbeing, Parks and Leisure:

1. Approves the approach and projects; and

2. Approves the grant funding of the organisations listed in the report.

The recent report (Dec 2021) by the Northern Health Science Alliance has described how the pandemic has disproportionately affected the North of England.  It is clear that mental and financial well-being was hardest hit in the North, and there were greater increases in loneliness.  In summary, the report found that individuals living in the North:

• Experienced a large drop in mental wellbeing (particularly the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber).
• Self-reported mental health fell by, on average, 4.4% in the North (compared to a reduction of 3.9%).
• There was a 55% increase in the presence of minor psychiatric disorders in the North (an increase from 19.2% in 2018/19 to 29.7% in 2020) compared to a 50% increase in the rest of England (an increase from 16.2% in 2018/19 to 24.2% in 2020).
• Experienced more loneliness, particularly in the North East.

·       A greater number of antidepressant prescribed over the past three years and this remained the case during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1.    Do Nothing - Underutilisation of the public health ring fenced grant

2.    Deliver In-House - N/A – non recurrent monies which is investment to kick start to attract other funds