Agenda item

This report provides an update to the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) regarding the work of the York Health and Care Partnership (YHCP).

The report is for information and discussion and does not ask the Health and Wellbeing Board to respond to recommendations or make any decisions.

The update was presented by the Interim York Place Director, discussing recent partnership activity.

He flagged that despite the national changes around Integrated Care Boards, there was continued progress around neighbourhood health work, with a bid to become part of the national neighbourhood health implementation programme. He said that York was well placed to maintain this and follow through. He stated that between the ICB and CYC, in spite of the financial challenges, a small pot of non-recurrent development funding had been secured, and this would be made available to this group to oversee, in line with Place-based partnership priorities and objectives, and they would come back with a series of proposals. 

He also noted that the partnership were working with a consultancy called Akeso who were advising the Combined Authority on a project called “Health on the High Street” that the Mayor was keen to prioritise, using collective assets, buildings and spaces across the city and the combined authority area. Akeso were undertaking a strategic assessment of what those assets might be, where the opportunities exist for healthcare provision. He suggested it was useful for the partnership to work closely alongside this strategic analysis, in the interests of collaboration and avoidance of duplicating work. This would also give access to combined authority funding.

He gave an update on the mental health partnership and the fact that the second community mental health hub was now up and running within the city. This was linked to the 24/7 national funding that had been secured and opened in mid-October with a base over at Acomb Garth. He noted that it was not yet fully operational in terms of the the 24/7 aspect, which had been challenging, but it was open fir core hours and the struggles they faced were reflected nationally. They were also still trying to secure recurrent funding for this hub, as they had done with the hubs 1 and 3. The Chair agreed that it was important to ensure funding was kept available for hub.

Board members asked whether coverage would be established for the northeast part of the city once the Acomb hub was fully ready. The Interim York Place Director said that the overarching aim was certainly to ensure that whole city covered. The Director of Operations and Transformation, TEWV confirmed that hub 3 would cover this area of the city and an appropriate location was currently being identified. He also confirmed that the Acomb Garth hub was currently struggling to find people to work through the night and the search was on for more people to cover the 24/7 remit of the hubs. The board asked whether this issue of low coverage for nights was a national issue and the Interim York Place Director confirmed that the 24/7 model that had been a problem throughout the pilots.

It was thereby

Resolved:   That the Board note the report of the YHCP.

Reason:     So that the Board were kept up to date on the work of the YHCP, progress to date and next steps.