Agenda item

4.1

The Board considered a report of the Co-Chairs of the Board, Dr Tim Moorhead and Councillor Julie Dore, outlining the draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2013-18 and seeking the Board’s approval for the Strategy.

4.2

The Board considered a number of issues in relation to the Strategy as follows:-

·         The Strategy was a development from the Strategy which had been agreed the previous year.

·         Extensive consultation had been undertaken in the development of the Strategy.

·         The Strategy set out the principles and five outcomes representing the aims for the City.

·         The action plans would be implemented through the Commissioning Plans of both the Clinical Commissioning Group and the City Council.

·         Healthwatch Sheffield extended their thanks for the engagement the Board had with Healthwatch Sheffield in the development of the Strategy.

·         The responsibility for the delivery of the actions would be dispersed across a number of organisations.

·         The Strategy was a Strategy for the medium term and the Board was not looking to revise it on a yearly basis although a review of how the Board was responding to the Strategy would be undertaken.

RESOLVED: That:-

1.    the Health and Wellbeing Board approves the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2013-18.

2.    the Health and Wellbeing Board’s partner organisations commit to delivering the Strategy.

4.3

REASONS FOR THE DECISION

1.    Following the publishing of its draft Strategy in autumn 2012, the Health and Wellbeing Board had heard from over 1,500 people who had fed into the process of delivering the final Strategy for 2013-18. The Board can be confident that this was an evidence-based Strategy based on the views and perspectives of Sheffield people.

2.    It was important to approve this Strategy at this stage so that it can be used to inform the plans for the 2014-15 financial year.