Issue - meetings

• Minutes of meeting held on 16^th January, 2013

• Minutes of meeting held on 31^st October, 2012.

Consideration was given to the minutes of the meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board held on 31st October, 2012.

Resolved:- That the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting be noted.

- minutes of meeting held on 5^th September, 2012

Consideration was given to the minutes of the meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board held on 5th September, 2012.

It was noted that the funding for the Alcohol Strategy – Local Implementation (Minute No. S24) would be from the Public Health ringfenced grant.

Resolved:- That the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting be noted.

- minutes of meeting held on 11^th July, 2012

Consideration was given to the minutes of the meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board held on 11th July, 2012.

Resolved:- That the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting be noted.

- minutes of meeting held on 6^th June, 2012

Councillor Wyatt, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, gave the following update:-

-              Minutes of the Obesity Strategy Group were to be submitted to the Board in future

-              It was hoped to hold a national Obesity conference in Rotherham in the New Year

- verbal update

Councillor Wyatt, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, gave the following update:-

-        The next Board meeting was on 6^th June, the main item of business being the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy.  It would then be considered by Cabinet in June and be in place for the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) authorisation

-        The CCG was undertaking examination of a number of documents in advance of the authorisation.  There would also be a recruitment exercise for a Chief Officer for the CCG and other HR issues with regard to existing NHS staff

-        HealthWatch was an extremely complicated issue.  It was Rotherham’s plan to have HealthWatch operating by October, 2012

-        John Wilderspin, Department of Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards Implementation, had written stating he wished to visit Rotherham to look for examples of good practice.  He wanted to attend a Board meeting to meet Board members, discuss the relationship between Select Commission, CCG and the wider health community

Discussion ensued with the following comments made/highlighted:-

o       The Council’s Audit Committee had considered the differing Risk Assessment arrangements between the NHS and Council.  The Committee had recommended that there be named officers who were responsible for Risk Assessment and work to draw the 2 closer together

o       There was a well established NHS Audit Committee

o       Audit and governance, certainly in respect of CCG Audit Group, was 1 of the major documents which had to pass the test in order to achieve authorisation as well as having to demonstrate the strong working relationships between all the agencies in particular the Local Authority and Health

o       The Local Authority Audit Committee Chair also chaired the Joint Audit Committee Group

Councillor Wyatt was thanked for his update.

- minutes of meeting held on 29^th February, 2012

Presentation by Councillor Wyatt, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing

The minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board held on 29th February, 2012, were noted.

2 workshops had since been held to develop the Health and Wellbeing Strategy which included the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

Councillor Wyatt, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, then gave the following powerpoint presentation on tackling health inequalities and responding to change:-

Health and Social Care Act

-        Received Royal Assent on 27^th March, 2012 took forward the areas of Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (July 2010) which required primary legislation

-        Covered 5 themes

Strengthening commissioning of NHS services

Increasing democratic accountability and public voice

Liberating provision of NHS services

Strengthening public health services

Reforming health and care arms length bodies

-        Highly controversial and included significant changes to the way things were done

Health and Wellbeing Board

-        Local authorities would lead the co-ordination of health and wellbeing through the creation of high level ‘Health and Wellbeing Boards

-        Key responsibilities included:-

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy

Improving health and reducing health inequalities

Integrating health, social care and public health

Productivity and efficiency

Rotherham’s Board

-        Now established as a Sub-Committee of the Council, Chaired by the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing

-        Direct reporting links to the LSP as well as links to other local Boards (including Adults, Children’s)

-        Terms of Reference agreed and work plan being developed

Vision for Health and Wellbeing

-        For everyone in Rotherham to be happy and healthy and have the adequate resources to participate in their community

Core Membership of the Board

-        Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing (Chair)

-        Cabinet Member for Adult Services

-        Cabinet Member for Safeguarding Children and Adults

-        Director of Public Health

-        Chief Executive, RMBC

-        Strategic Director of Neighbourhoods and Adult Services

-        Strategic Director of Children and Young People’s Services

-        Strategic Director of Environment and Development Services

-        Chair of Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

-        Chief Operating Officer, CCG

-        Chair of PCT Cluster Board (until April, 2013 when position will be reviewed)

-        Voluntary Action Rotherham

-        Rotherham HealthWatch (once in place 2013)

NHS Commissioning

-        Devolved responsibility for the majority of commissioning to local Clinical Commissioning Groups

-        Supported and held to account by an independent national NHS Commissioning Board

-        Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group now established

-        CCG had a statutory place on the Health and Wellbeing Board

Public Health

-        Local authorities would take on statutory duty for Public Health

-        Full transfer of responsibilities and resources by April, 2013

-        Ringfenced budget allocation provided in ‘shadow’ form April, 2012

-        Directors of Public Health jointly appointed between local authority and Public Health England from April 2013

-        Director of Public Health to be added to the list of statutory Chief Officers in the Local Government and Housing Act (subject to Parliament)

-        Director of Public Health had a statutory place on the Health and Wellbeing Board

HealthWatch

-        HealthWatch England would  ...  view the full minutes text for item 62

- minutes of meeting held on 18^th January, 2012

Councillor Jack noted that the Health Select Commission work programme had been presented for information to the Health and Wellbeing Board at their last meeting on 29 February.  It was flagged up that the Continuing Healthcare Scrutiny Review was currently taking place and that the next meeting of the Commission would have a themed session on the Health and Wellbeing Board and that members of the Board had been invited to attend.  If Health Select Commission members had any questions they wished to raise with Board members at that meeting they were welcome to do so and could send questions in advance to Kate Green.

Resolved:-  That the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board held on 18^th January, 2012, be noted.

- minutes of meeting held on 7^th December, 2011

Resolved:-  (1)  That the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board held on 7^th December, 2011, be noted.

Councillor Wyatt reported that at the meeting held on 18^th January, 2012, the Board had considered a forward plan highlighting the key achievements that had to be made in the next 12 months,

(2)  That the Health and Wellbeing Board’s forward plan be submitted to this Select Commission.

- minutes of meeting held on 26^th October, 2011

Resolved:-  That the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board held on 26^th October, 2011, be noted.