Issue - meetings

Shona McFarlane, Director of Health and Wellbeing, presented a report on Accelerated Learning Sets, launched by the Government in November, 2011, to help emerging Health and Wellbeing Boards work together on the biggest challenges that faced them on their way to statutory running from April, 2013.

More than 90 out of 152 emerging HWBs from across England were represented in the 11 Learning Sets.  The Sets were focussed on themes that early implementers had said were of most interest and importance to HWB members including:-

-        Improving the health of the population (2 Sets)

-        Bringing collaborative leadership to major service reconfiguration (2 Sets)

-        Creating effective governance arrangements

-        How do we ‘hard wire’ public engagement into the work of the Board

-        Raising the bar on JSNA’s and joint health and wellbeing strategies

-        Improving services through more effective joint working

-        Making the best of collective resources

Each Learning Set included members from local government and NHS organisations with a nominated lead, policy lead and appointed facilitator.

Rotherham was represented on the Learning Sets by Shona who was Set Lead for “Brining collaborative leadership to major service reconfiguration”

Outputs from the Sets would be published in March but the Communities of Practice website was providing a virtual engagement mechanism in the meantime.

Resolved:-  (1)  That the report be noted.

(2)  That Board members be encouraged to join the Department of Health Communities of Practice website for further information, dialogue and debate.