Agenda item

Presentation by Board Sponsors

Jo Brown, Assistant Chief Executive, gave an update on Aim 3 of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy with the aid of the following powerpoint presentation:-

Aim 3:  All Rotherham people live well for longer

-        Aim 3 has 3 priority areas

-        Ensure support was in place for carers

-        Support local people to lead healthy lifestyles including reducing the health burden from tobacco, obesity and drugs and alcohol

Priority 1:  Ensure support is in place for carers

-        Increase the flexible support options available for unpaid carers to sustain them in their caring role

•     Needs assessment completed via co-production exercise in 2023.  This identified a need for a flexible break option for carers

•     It also identified a gap in tailored information and support for young adult carers in particular

•     The outcomes from the Unpaid Carers’ Health and Wellbeing Small Grants Programme were currently being collated and would further contribute to the needs and gap analysis

•     Development of the unpaid carers’ offer was underway which would inform the options appraisal and any future commissioning requirements

•     Research/benchmarking other local authority unpaid carers offer taking place

•     ADASS Carers Leads Network and national carers bodies were utilised to identify good practice

-        Develop and streamline the advice and information available for unpaid carers in line with the Care Act 2014, Care and Support statutory guidance and for NHS Standard for Creating Health Content

•       Co-production work had been undertaken with carers leads from the South Yorkshire region to complete an expression of interest for funding (as a consortium) from the DHSC’s Accelerated Reform Fund (ARF) to develop an app for unpaid carers

•       Funding of circa £500,000 received which would fund development of the app and a resource for each local authority to aid further co-production and progress the project

•       Rotherham Council to lead the commissioning of a developer on behalf of the consortium

•       An outline project plan was in place which would be fully developed over the new few weeks by the consortium members

Priority 2:  Support local people to lead healthy lifestyles

-        Develop the healthy lifestyles prevention offer/pathway

•       Communications and engagement prevention campaign ‘Say Yes’ and its 6 themes of alcohol, cancer, diabetes, loneliness, breastfeeding and self-care during Winter – work to date had predominantly focussed on promoting the resource DrinkCoach and pages on RotherHive focussed on smoking, eating well and moving more

•       The promotion of DrinkCoach had included partnership work with Rotherham United to promote the app at match days and collaborations with GP practices to promote the app via direct text messages

•       The work to promote RotherHive had led to over 45,000 page visits with engagement rising during key engagement weeks/months such as Stoptober and Mental Health Awareness Week

•       Building from focus groups with both professionals and communities, work had also started to develop a loneliness campaign in support of delivery of the local Loneliness Action Plan

•       Action to review the current Service specification for Social Prescribing and recommissioning of the Service had been completed.  The Service specification had been developed and embedded as part of the new Rotherham Social Prescribing Contract for 2024-27.  VAR were the successful bidder

•       Integrated Social Prescribing Service had been procured.  Sheffield Hallam University contacted to review pathways across Place to Support Development model and funding now in place for this.  Activity would take place over the summer to develop a project plan which had a primary focus on developing a Framework Grant Process for the local voluntary and community sector to apply to deliver services in Rotherham.  Agreements to be in place by 1^st April 2025

-        Strengthen understanding of health behaviours and health inequalities

-        Engage local people in target areas to inform a proposal around self-management and holistic support for people living with physical health conditions and poor mental wellbeing

•     Focused on identifying priority areas of action for people living with Long Term Conditions and poor mental health and wellbeing.  Survey undertaken in Maltby/Wickersley and Rother Valley South Primary Care Networks.  Over 50% of people responded to the survey (over 1,221 respondents) which had provided rich data insights

•     The engagement work had so far fed findings into several projects including a chronic pain workshop, transformation workstreams, prioritisation and planning within PCNs and the Mental Health Needs Assessment.  Qualitative analysis was nearing completion

-        Explore options to co-ordinate community engagement activities around health at Place and develop approach to share findings

•     ICB engagement leads and partners across South Yorkshire Integrated Care System including VCSE, NHS South Yorkshire, local authorities, providers and Healthwatch were coming together to build a digital library of all the patient, public and community insights gathered

•     ICB engagement leads were currently in the designing and testing phase of a shared Insights’ Bank and were gathering reports for this stage of the process.  Over 30 reports (with each report having several insights) already collected on Insights and were working with partners to gather more

•     The Insights Bank would be up and running by Autumn 2024 to both upload and share documents to the library as well as search for and download materials that others had shared

•     Over time, the Insights Bank could be used to identify trends and patterns

-        Ensure effective partnership working on key strategic projects

-        Ensure partners were engaged in implementation of Drug and Alcohol Related Death (DARD)

•     First DARD Panel date held 29^th February, 2024, with attendance including Police, Housing partners, RDaSH, Public Health and We are With You.  Dates set for the quarterly meetings for the remainder of 2024 to review Coroner confirmed drug or alcohol related deaths

•     Terms of reference, processes of logging and reporting findings were being established

Issues to Address/Next Steps

-        No milestones under Aim 3 were rated as ‘off-track’

-        Further stakeholder engagement required to ensure that the ‘Say Yes’ campaign was widely adopted across the partnership

-        Progression of the new grant process for Social Prescribing and integrated pathways work to ensure successful providers could be awarded agreements commencing from 1^st April 2025

-        Progression of the face-to-face engagement work to feed back and develop on the initial findings for people living with Long Term Conditions (LTCs) and poor mental health and wellbeing

It was noted that a “lessons learnt” would be drawn up from the successful consultation (over 50% response rate) and fed through to all partners and South Yorkshire’s Insight  Bank to ensure that all the good practice was captured and the model for future engagement.

As part of the funding arrangement from the DHSC’s Accelerated Reform Fund to develop an App for unpaid carers, there were national resources to provide support to local authorities for engagement, co-production and marketing the App. 

A big piece of work for the forthcoming year, linked with the Memorandum of Understanding, was to work closely with Children and Young People’s Services to identify young carers.  There was the wider issue of non-identification of young carers at a young age so that agencies were aware of them when transitioning to adults.  The consultation had showed that there was a gap in the advice/information/young carers as the digital platform was heavily relied upon.  Work was now taking place to try and link that up and improve the website in conjunction with young carers.

Resolved:-  That the presentation be noted.