Agenda item

Director of Community and Children’s Services

The Board considered a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services stating that local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups had a joint duty to prepare and update Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNA). This duty must be discharged by local Health and Wellbeing Boards.

Officers informed Members that Hackney and City’s current Health and Wellbeing Profile had been widely praised and accepted as a strong reflection of the health and wellbeing needs of the residents of the City and Hackney. This solid evidence base should be retained however, in line with best practice it was recommended that the following principles should be used in the development of our local model:

• To use a continuous development approach with sections reviewed on an

ongoing basis, investigating a web based publication approach.

• It supports the development of closer integration of the Health and

Wellbeing system across prevention, primary care, community care,

secondary healthcare and social care.

• To change the needs assessment bias, over time, to an asset based

approach with less focus on the problems and deficiencies in communities,

harnessing potential to improve health within the delivery infrastructure

and community.

• To update with most recent census data.

• To ensure it reflects the Public Health, Clinical and Social Care outcomes

frameworks; and include consideration of Emergency Planning

requirements.

• To review priorities and ensure there is a transparent approach to

prioritisation agreed by members of the Health and Wellbeing Board.

• Incorporate the role and networks within Healthwatch.

• Consideration of the integration of public health within the local authority.

RESOLVED – That Members approved the proposal to refresh the Health and

Wellbeing Profile, adopting the new principles and framework.