Agenda item

5.05 pm – (Report to follow)

The Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, the Health and Wellbeing Manager and the Senior Public Health Manager (Mental Health, Workplace Health and Chesterfield Locality), Derbyshire County Council, presented a report to update Members of the current projects and programmes being delivered to address the need to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce inequalities since the previous report to the Scrutiny Committee in March 2017.

The report outlined the key actions within the Chesterfield Health and Wellbeing Partnership locality plan, including to develop and deliver programmes with partners to improve health outcomes associated with falls prevention, alcohol and obesity.

The report referred to the Chesterfield Place Group, a wide partnership of the key agencies influencing health and social care to review the system to deliver improved outcomes and reduced costs to address the finance gap within the wider health service, shaped by the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) developed by the Clinical Commissioning Groups across Derbyshire for the NHS.

Copies of the 2017 Health Profile for Chesterfield and the Public Health Outcomes Framework Local Indicator Summary (May 2017) were attached to the report as appendices. These showed local measures worse than the national average in respect of life expectancy, obesity, under 18 hospital admissions and adult hospital stays due to alcohol harm, hospital stays for self-harm and hospital admissions for falls in people aged over 65 and hip fractures.

The meeting considered some of the actions being taken locally to address falls prevention and obesity and inactivity, including the development of local delivery plans across the seven neighbourhood areas from the Press Red work. A bid had been submitted from Derbyshire to The Local Delivery Pilot, an investment programme supported by Sport England, aimed to change the way sport and physical activity was offered in communities, especially in order to get more underrepresented groups more active. The Derbyshire bid included Staveley and Loundsley Green in Chesterfield.

Arising from Members’ questions and discussion the following points were raised:

·        The beneficial impact of the Holiday Hunger programme run in Barrow Hill;

·        The challenge to enable local communities and volunteers to continue projects following initial inputs;

·        The importance of identifying suitable premises for projects and activities for each specific location.

The report also referred to the Sheffield City Region Early Intervention Employment Pilot,designed to provide intensive, co-ordinated support to residents who were unemployed with multiple and complex barriers, the aim being to support them to find and keep work. The pilot was expected to start early in 2018 and to support over 400 Chesterfield residents.

It was noted that the Chesterfield Health and Wellbeing Partnership had established a working group to address some of the key issues arising from the introduction of Universal Credit full service in Chesterfield in November, 2017.

The Committee thanked the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, the Health and Wellbeing Manager and the Senior Public Health Manager (Mental Health, Workplace Health and Chesterfield Locality), Derbyshire County Council for their contribution to the meeting.

RESOLVED –

(1)         That the ongoing work through the Health and Wellbeing Partnership be supported.

(2)         That progress on the work to address health and wellbeing in the borough be reported to the Committee in March, 2018.