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The Board gave consideration to a report of the Joint Acting Director of Public Health that provided an update on the development of the Greater Manchester Population Health Outcomes Framework and Common Standards and the Oldham Cares Outcomes Framework.

In March 2017, the GM Health & Social Care Partnership agreed to a set of

proposals to facilitate the creation of a unified population health system, to support the delivery of the GM Population Health Plan at pace and scale. This included a commitment to the reduction of unwanted and unwarranted variation in standards, improvement in population health outcomes, more consistent adoption of evidence based practice, and the enhanced use of benchmarking data.

Over time, this programme had developed to incorporate 3 core elements:

•      A GM Population Health Outcomes Framework (as part of a single integrated assurance process)

•      GM Population Health Common Standards

•       Excellence in GM Sector Led Improvement Programme

On 29th March 2018 the GM Population Health Board agreed that the Framework and accompanying online dashboard would be used in future Locality Quarterly Assurance processes and would be tested during the 2017/18 Q4 Assurance Cycle. Work was ongoing to further develop the Framework and to identify alternative means of measuring desirable outcomes.

The GM Population Health Board also reviewed drafts of the first phase of the

Population Health Common Standards covering prescribed and non-prescribed core public health functions, tobacco, sexual and reproductive health and oral health, and requested that localities note the development of standards and continue engage with this work to further develop a suite of standards to help improve outcomes, reduce inequalities locally and across GM.

The Oldham Cares outcomes framework set out a range of high level outcomes based on the key changes we want to see in Oldham over the next decade. These were the headline outcomes for Oldham Cares, which the whole system would work together to deliver, in order to improve the health of the population and the way the local health and social care system operates.

The outcomes framework and supporting indicators were agreed at the Health and Wellbeing Board in March 2018 and work to develop targets and ambitions for these indicators was being progressed.

RESOLVED that

·         The GM Population Health Outcomes Framework and the intention for

this to be used in Locality Quarterly Assurance processes be noted.

·         The development of GM common standards and continue engage with

this work to further develop a suite of standards to help improve outcomes, reduce inequalities locally and across GM be noted.

·         The progress to date in developing the Oldham Cares outcomes

framework and the proposed engagement of commissioners, alliance

providers and health and wellbeing board members, to  develop ambitions and targets for each indicator, for approval at the next meeting of the Board, be noted.