Agenda and minutes

Apologies had been received from Gareth Moore, Simon Murrells and Nigel Challis.

There were no declarations of interest.

To agree the minutes of the previous meeting.

Resolved – that the minutes be agreed as an accurate record.

Presented by Steve Blake.

The Committee received a presentation outlining the noise strategy and noted that

presented by Glyn Kyle

The Board received the Healthwatch Annual Report and the Chairman thanked the Chair of Healthwatch UK for providing Members with a useful summary of the annual work undertaken by Healthwatch.

Resolved – that the report be received.

Presented by Ruth Calderwood

The Board noted that the Mayor of London had awarded the City of London Corporation £990,000 over three years to implement a Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN). This followed a successful application for funding submitted in April 2016.

The LEN will focus on three areas: Barbican, Guildhall and Barts. This zone was

chosen as it supports plans for improvements to Beech Street and the cultural hub,

supports the Barbican Estates plans for freight consolidation and electric charge

points and builds on previous air quality engagement projects with Barts Health NHS Trust, Barbican residents and local businesses.

The overall aim of the LEN was to improve local air quality by reducing the amount of traffic and encouraging and supporting low and zero emission vehicles in the locality. Improvements in air quality are expected both within the proposed neighbourhood and more widely across the City due to an increase in low and zero emission vehicles. It was anticipated that the most successful measures will be rolled out across the City. This work supports the aims and objectives of the City of London Air Quality Strategy 2015 – 2020, in addition to a number of other corporate policies and strategies. It also goes towards addressing air quality, which has been identified as a corporate risk. An update report will be submitted to the Committee in early 2017.

Resolved – that the report be received.

Presented by Jan Annan from CCG.

Members noted the City & Hackney CCG plans for the Quality Premium for 2016/17.

The programme for 2016/17 was been approved by the Chairman of the Health and

Wellbeing Board on 14 July 2016 and this report was being presented for the

Board’s approval.

Members were informed that the ‘Quality Premium’ was set by NHS England. It was intended to reward CCGs for improvements in the quality of the services that they commission and also for associated improvements in health outcomes and reductions in inequalities in access to services and in health outcomes.

Discussions ensued regarding the statistics included in the report Annually, NHS England designs the Quality Premium which varied from year to year. There ware always national targets that are mandatory and others which could be designed locally and agreed with NHS England. For 2016/17 there were 4 mandatory measures. There was an option to choose 3 local measures from the list of RightCare Metrics. These were chosen by the CCG Programme Boards and consulted upon with the Clinical Commissioning Forum as areas for potential improvement and where data to support evaluation of the outcome will be available by 31.3.17. The indicators chosen support the commissioning plans for 2016/17 and align with areas of priority for the CCG.

Resolved – that the Board Members endorsed the report.

presented by Nichola Gardener

Members were provided with a further update to the Board on the development of the north east London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (known as the NEL STP). While the mandate for the STP development and sign off lies with health partners, Officers were working closely with local authorities to develop the approach to sustainability and transformation as Officers recognised that their involvement is central to the success of our ambitious plans to develop truly person-centred and integrated health and social care services.

In response to a query, Members noted that a draft ‘checkpoint’ STP was submitted to NHS England on 30 June 2016; it formed the basis of a local conversation with NHS England on 14 July. Officers were currently planning how they would engage on the draft STP and expect to hold public events across north east London. Further work was continuing to develop the plan in more detail; additional updates would be presented to the Board as they become available.

In response to a query regarding the transformation plan’s requirement to close the funding gap, the Board were informed that discussions were currently taking place regarding the deficit. This point and clarification regarding the sign off process would be the subject of further consultation which would be fed back to the Board in due course.

Resolved – that the report be received.

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

Members noted that public consultation was carried out in November and December 2015. The responses had now been analysed and a detailed design, taking into account these responses had been completed and as a result, amendments had been made.

Resolved – that the report be noted.

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Board noted that the City of London was part of Inner North East London Transforming Care Partnership. The Partnership had agreed and launched a Transforming Care Plan. The plan was designed to meet the needs of local people with a learning disability and people with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder who had challenging behaviour.

Resolved – that the update be received.

Report of the Director of Human Resources.

Members noted that good physical health and mental wellbeing were vital to a productive and motivated workforce. By adopting a progressive and proactive approach to the wellbeing of staff, the City could reduce further sickness absence and presenteeism levels. HR was currently implementing its wellbeing strategy, CityWell, and investing in the health of our employees. The Corporation would see in return higher levels of engagement and productivity from our staff, and continue to attract and retain the highest calibre of talent.

The benefits of physical activity and social inclusion in health were well documented

as such the HR Strategy has included these as distinct phases within their employee wellbeing strategy. The CityWell programme had also partnered with the City of London Staff Sports & Activities Club (COLSSAC) to deliver some of the physical activity side of the programme.

The Board noted that although they currently difficulty, the City Corporation were grateful for the provisions provided by Fusion at the Golden Lane Fitness Centre. For this reason the Board Members were not in favour of extending the offer of swimming at concessional rates for City Corporation staff, so as to not add further pressure to Fusion.

The Committee received a presentation from the Chief Executive of StepJockey and noted that whilst it would be helpful to erect signs around the City encouraging walking, the City Corporation had a policy to not ‘clutter’ streets with signs. Members asked Officers to keep the policy in mind whilst continuing the exploration of StepJockey further as a tool to encourage physical activity.

Resolved – that Members:

· Noted the contents of the report

· Supported City of London Staff Sports & Activities Club (COLSSAC) and

influence City Surveyors where possible to support the facilities in house

· Allowed the exploration of StepJockey further as a potential tool to increase

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Members were provided with an overview of local developments related to the work of the Board on the following areas:

· Safer City Partnership Update

· Active Travel Update

· Square Mile Health Update

· Liaison and Diversion Service

· Mayor’s Vision for Cycling- Quietways update

· Health and Wellbeing advisory group

· Bags of Taste

· Report to Audit and Risk Management Committee on Air Quality

· Sexual Health update

Members noted that a Board Development Day had been scheduled to take place on 26 October in Guildhall. The day would include a session on reviewing the Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy; a draft strategy would be submitted to the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting in November.

Members also noted that following the successful poster campaign encouraging smokefree playgrounds around the City, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health had requested to use the City’s campaign as a case study on World Environmental Health Day which could be documented by BBC News. A Member queried whether this campaign could include other pockets of open space across the City however, officers advised that was currently not possible due to a number of enforcement issues.

Resolved – that the update report be noted.

There were no questions.

The Board were reminded that a Health & Wellbeing Board development session was scheduled to take place in Guildhall on 26^th October 2016 at 09:30am – 1:00pm.