Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a report of the Interim Director of Public Health which sought to update the Board on the current status of Oldham’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), the establishment of the JSNA Sub-Group and the outline work plan for 2019/20.

The Interim Director of Public Health, accompanied by the Speciality Registrar in Public Health, presented the information and addressed the enquiries of the Board Members.

It was explained that the JSNA was the process utilised to determine the current and future health and social care needs of the local population, to inform decision making and to guide the commissioning of the health, wellbeing and social care services in Oldham. The Health and Wellbeing Board was responsible for the production and the oversight of the JSNA.

In September 2018, the Health and Wellbeing Board had endorsed the key principles for the production and maintenance of the JSNA and had also agreed to the revised form and membership of the JSNA Steering Group (i.e.: sub-group of the Health and Wellbeing Board) which would provide strategic oversight and governance of the JSNA process and products on behalf of Oldham Cares. The JSNA Sub-Group had met at the beginning of this week. A scoping document had been drafted. There were several topics that the JSNA Sub-Group intended to cover and they were all based on Public Health local data and key findings. A specific JSNA for Children in Care would be finalised in March 2019 and engagement with the Children in Care Council was ongoing.

It was also reported that the JSNA web-site had been refreshed and updated. The content had been written with input from the Council’s Business Intelligence Team. The web-site contained Oldham’s ward profiles and it would also be possible to produce the cluster profiles. The structure of the web-site was explained. The Board was advised that resources would be necessary to keep the web-site up to date.

The Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care commended the work and the efforts undertaken to produce Oldham’s JSNA; the Council and its partners would work together to address the issues outlined in the JSNA document.

RESOLVED that:

1.    The update from the first meeting of the re-established JSNA sub-group that took place on 24^th January 2019, including the outline work-programme for 2019/20 be noted;

2.    The progress made to date to update and refresh the content of Oldham’s JSNA web-site be noted.