Health and Wellbeing Board	14 September 2022
Report of the Consultant in Public Health, City of York Council

Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-32

Summary

1. This report presents the final version for the Board’s approval 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 2022 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 this Strategy’).

7. The text of the Strategy is presented in the Annex, in a final version to be approved by the Board following a discussion of the draft in July 2022.

8. The strategy, along with the other two major city strategies in development (Economic Strategy and Climate Change Strategy). Have been subject to a resident consultation (‘Our Big Conversation: 10 Year Strategies Consultation’) running across July and August this year.

9. In addition a number of key stakeholders have been consulted om the draft, including the chairs of key partnership boars relating to health in the city e.g. the Mental Health Partnership.

10. The feedback from these various opportunities for consultation on the Strategy, as well as the Board’s discussion in July, have been collated and analysed for key themes. This has resulted in various additions, amendments and changes being made to the text, which will be summarised for the board during its discussion of this report.

11. Following approval, the strategy will be subject to a graphic design process and then published on the City of York Council website and JSNA pages (Healthyork).

Consultation and Engagement

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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

15. Health and Wellbeing Board are asked to discuss and comment on the York Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2032, and approve it.

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