Health and Wellbeing Board	20 July 2022
Report of the Consultant in Public Health, City of York Council

Draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2017-2022

Summary

1. This report presents a draft version for the Board’s comments of the York Joint Health and Wellbeing Board Strategy 2022-32.

Background

2. The current Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2017-2022 expires at the end of the year. It follows a life course approach and identifies four principal themes to be addressed namely starting and growing well; living and working well; ageing well and mental health and wellbeing. Within each of these themes there are a number of discrete priorities and delivery against these continues.

3. Progress has been reported back via Health and Wellbeing Board update reports, the most recent of these in 2018/19.

4. Additionally the Health and Wellbeing Board undertook a mid-term review of its strategy and in early 2020 approved a supplementary document identifying the focus for the remaining time of the strategy.

Renewing the Strategy

5. It was agreed at the Board’s January meeting that the new strategy should have a lifespan of 10 years, with its high-level principle being to reduce gaps in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in populations across the city.

6. Ambitions and Goals in the Strategy have been identified using the evidence in the JSNA, through workshops and through public engagement, a process which is explained directly in the Strategy itself (‘How we made his Strategy’).

7. The text of the Strategy is presented in the Annex, in full but at a draft stage. This allows for Board member’s comment, and requests for amendments and additions to the text.

8. The Ambitions of the Strategy are currently being considered by a Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee process, together with the other two major city strategies in development (Economic Strategy and Climate Change Strategy). This also includes a resident consultation (‘Our Big Conversation: 10 Year Strategies Consultation’) running across July and August this year.

9. The feedback from these various opportunities for involvement in the Strategy will be collated, with a final version of the strategy coming to the Health and Wellbeing Board for sign off in September.

Consultation and Engagement

10. As a high-level document setting out the strategic vision for health and wellbeing in the city, the new Health and Wellbeing Strategy capitalizes on existing consultation and engagement work being undertaken on deeper and more specific projects in the city. Engagement opportunities for partners and the public within the writing process for the new Health and Wellbeing Strategy, including formal consultation, are set out in the document itself, and described above.

11. Co-production is a principle that has been endorsed by the HWBB and will form a key part of the delivery, implementation and evaluation of the strategy

Implications

12. It is important that the priorities in relation to both the current and any new joint health and wellbeing strategy are delivered. Members need to be assured that appropriate mechanisms are in place for delivery. The Terms of Reference for the Health and Wellbeing Board and its governance arrangements will be reviewed together with its relationship to the new NHS partnership arrangements.

        Recommendations

13. Health and Wellbeing Board are asked to discuss and comment on the York Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2032, and suggest required amendments or additions.

Reason: To ensure that the Health and Wellbeing Board fulfils its statutory duty to produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy

Contact Details

Author:	Chief Officer Responsible for the report:
Peter Roderick Consultant in Public Health, City of York Council	Peter Roderick Consultant in Public Health, City of York Council
	Report Approved	✔	Date	11.07.2022
Specialist Implications Officer(s) None
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Glossary:

HWBB: Health and Wellbeing Board

JSNA: Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

NHS: National Health Service

Definitions:

Healthy Life Expectancy: the average number of years that an individual is expected to live in a state of self-assessed good or very good health, based on current mortality rates and prevalence of good or very good health

Life Expectancy: the average number of years that an individual is expected to live based on current mortality rates