Agenda item

To receive verbal updates from the place-based Health and Wellbeing Board Partnerships.

The Chair welcomed Steve Maxey, Chief Executive, North Warwickshire Borough Council and Ryan Coffey, Chair of Warwickshire North Place who highlighted the following points to the Board.

1. Play area refurbishment.  Timed well with the change in the weather and the ongoing concern of childhood obesity.

2. One current key focus is integration to maximise capacity in each area and improve service delivery.

3. A review is underway in relation to the actions from 23/24 action plan and to confirm those for 24/25.  The general consensus was that the programme is on the right event.

4. The North Place Programme highlights the priorities identified and it was confirmed to include access to mental health support and support for healthy lifestyle choices.  It is a live programme so will be updated as programmes start and finish. 

5. The Clinical Strategy is due to be renewed towards the end of 2024/early 2025.

6. The Kings Fund Population Health model is being used to help identify Warwickshire North priorities.

7. Current achievements of the North Place Partnership include – Cardio vascular disease checklist which was shared with the Board.  It helps to identify and the engage with people with a risk of cardio disease who aren’t already on a programme of care.  It was confirmed that just over 1000 checks have been carried out so far with 260 being then referred onto a primary care pathway.  The full impact of this project will be shared at a future meeting.

8. The Board received a monthly snapshot shared via a presentation in relation to volunteering and learnt that over 750 hours of volunteer intervention time has been given to patients. Including over 50 hours of volunteer time getting medicine delivered during March 2024. 

The Board noted that there are still issues and that it is important to remember that there are still challenges.  There is a need to monitor how place projects are carried forward.  One area of concern is capacity; fewer people are able to attend meetings and that has to be noted. 

The Chair welcomed Chris Elliot and Adam Carson (co-chairs of the South Place) who presented the following highlights –

1. Over the last 12 months there has been a review of governance and place plan priorities in line with the establishment of the ICB.  The revised place structure is now in place. 

2. New priorities have been put in place including the cost of living and the impact it has across all communities; other priorities include climate change and the impact on respiratory health; and mental health.

3. Work has started on collecting £20k from each of the organisations but there is now a pot of money in place; this allows the pooling resources.  Discussions are underway on the best way to use the money to support the priorities identified.

4. Lillington in Leamington has a collection of projects currently underway, including the new health hubs.  UKSPF money has been used to support some of these local projects including a new GP’s surgery.  Health and equalities funding has been used to introduce a work programme to support a community hotspot for respiratory issues. Progress will be tracked to monitor if these interventions are achieving what they were set up to achieve.

5. There is now a forum to discuss how agencies can all work together That is one of the real positives of place work

The Chair welcomed Justine Richards, co-chair of Rugby Health and Wellbeing Partnership who highlighted the following points to the Board –

1. Following a review of the priorities, one challenge was identified and that is the population growth.  However, there has been a good increase in partnership working but coupled with that is a stretch of all resources.

2. A community event within Rugby in 2023 highlighted many concerns of the residents.  This led to the development of a Health in the Highstreet plan working with other agencies and partners.  Further work will include a review of the barriers currently faced within the area. 

3. Having a role in the Care Collaborative has been crucial to the place partnership, making sure that we have a voice, and that the voice in heard – identified as a key concern to ensure that the needs of the rugby population are met. 

4. The next 12 months look exciting after the resetting exercise of the last year.  Recruitment is an area of focus and will help move things forward.  Building on the Healthwatch event, there is no a task and finish group looking at emergency responses and being able to show the plans moving forward and also, what is in place in Rugby. 

5. Town centre regeneration underway and Rugby Place Partnership will be involved heavily in this moving forward.  This collaboration shows that everything interlinks and that not everything is on one level. 

6. The programme for 2024 includes securing carers trust funding which will be done in partnership with CAVA.  In addition, work to link in with the borough’s youths service will also be included.

Chris Bain – Healthwatch Warwickshire confirmed that Healthwatch has been working with all three places.  However, it was noted that there is still a need to improve communication; especially the use of plain English where possible and make sure that each plan’s place does what they said they would do, and when they said they will do it.  It was noted that communication is vital and those involved must make sure that the true feelings of those residents involved are included.

Following a question in relation to data and evaluation, it was confirmed that it is often dependent on the type of programme as to when an evaluation is done and what kind of evaluation is needed.  After evaluation, officers can then look at how effective a programme has been.  The best way is to develop an evaluation plan at the very start of each project.

The Chair thanked all the Place Partnership representatives noting that it had been really good for the Board to see all the work being done in each of the places.  Each place is hard working and vocal about what they want to do and when.  The Chair stated that she would say to each of the plan places – keep going!  It is so important to hear firsthand how each plan is going.