Agenda and minutes

To receive any apologies for absence from Councillors.

Apologies were received from Karen Loftus, Matthew Bryant and Lou Bates.

To receive information on any changes in the membership of the Committee.

Note – When a member of a Committee is unable to attend a meeting of a Committee or Sub-Committee, the relevant Political Group Leader (or their nominated representative) may, by notice to the Monitoring Officer (or their nominated representative) prior to the meeting, appoint a substitute member from within the same Political Group. The contact details on the front of this agenda should be used for notifications.

Kris Dominy substituted for Matthew Bryant.

To elect a Vice Chair for the BCP Health and Wellbeing Board for the remainder of the 2023-24 Municipal Year.

RESOLVED that David Freeman be elected as Vice Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board for the remainder of the 2023-24 Municipal Year.

To confirm and sign as a correct record the minutes of the Meeting held on 20^th July 2023.

The Minutes of the Board held on 20 July 2023 were confirmed as an accurate record and signed by the Chair.

Councillors are requested to declare any interests on items included in this agenda. Please refer to the workflow on the preceding page for guidance.

Declarations received will be reported at the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest received on this occasion.

To receive any public questions, statements or petitions submitted in accordance with the Constitution. Further information on the requirements for submitting these is available to view at the following link:-

https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/documents/s2305/Public%20Items%20-%20Meeting%20Procedure%20Rules.pdf 

The deadline for the submission of public questions is 3 clear working days before the meeting.

The deadline for the submission of a statement is midday the working day before the meeting.

The deadline for the submission of a petition is 10 working days before the meeting.

There were no public issues received on this occasion.

It is a statutory requirement for the DBCP Safeguarding Adults Boards (SAB) to publish an Annual Report each year and to present that report to the Council’s Health & Wellbeing Board.  Many Councils also request that the report is presented to Scrutiny as the report enables a discussion on the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board.

The attached report is for the year April 2022 to March 2023.The report was agreed at the September meeting of the Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs).

The DBCP Boards have successfully worked together with joint meetings over the year

One Annual Report for both Dorset and BCP SABs has been published. Throughout this year we have delivered against all of our priorities which are set out in the annual work plan; this Annual Report summarises what the Board has achieved.

The Director of Adult Social Care and Head of Statutory Services presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'A’ to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

It was a statutory requirement for the DBCP Safeguarding Adults Boards (SAB) to publish an Annual Report each year and to present that report to the Council’s Health & Wellbeing Board.  Many Councils also requested that the report be presented to Scrutiny as the report enabled a discussion on the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board.

The attached report was for the year April 2022 to March 2023. The report was agreed at the September meeting of the Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs).

The DBCP Boards had successfully worked together with joint meetings over the year.

One Annual Report for both Dorset and BCP SABs had been published. Throughout this year the SAB had delivered against all of its priorities which were set out in the annual work plan; this Annual Report summarised what the Board has achieved.

The Board discussed the report and comments were made, including:

• In response to a query regarding in relation to the SAR highlighted and whether suicide audits were still undertaken, the Board was advised that this would need to be taken back to the SAB and could be reported back to the Board.  ACTION.
• The Chief Executive and Chair thanked the Board for the report and all the work it did.

RESOLVED that Members note the report which informs the Board about how the SAB has carried out its responsibilities to prevent abuse, harm and neglect of adults with care and support needs during 2022-2023.

This report sets out progress on the NHS Health Check (NHS HC) refresh programme. The report summarises: 

·       Our programme changes for 2023/24 

·       Mobilisation and implementation of the new universal and targeted models  

·       Performance Quarter One and Two for primary care and LiveWell Dorset  

·       Challenges.

Overall there has been an increase in the invitations and number of checks delivered, especially in more deprived areas in line with the Director of Public Health report recommendations.

The Director of Public Health presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'B' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

The Director of Public Health report identified that the delivery of the health checks programme had been challenging. It recommended a continued focus to ensure that delivery of checks improves, especially in the most deprived areas, where risks were higher. This update was part of that continued focus, to keep the board sighted on an important area of improvement work.

The report set out progress on the NHS Health Check (NHS HC) refresh programme. The report summarised: 

·       Our programme changes for 2023/24 

·       Mobilisation and implementation of the new universal and targeted models  

·       Performance Quarter One and Two for primary care and LiveWell Dorset  

·       Challenges.

Overall there had been an increase in the invitations and number of checks delivered, especially in more deprived areas in line with the Director of Public Health report recommendations.

The Board discussed the report and comments were made:

·       In response to a query regarding a slight difference in the data shown in paragraph 4.2, the Director of Public Health advised he would investigate that and report back to the Board. ACTION.

·       In response to a query regarding how the invites for health checks were sent out, the Board was advised that practices used their own registers to send out letters or text messages and different ways to drive the invitations would be welcomed as well as a broader range of inviting people.

·       In response to a query regarding whether there were any other Local Authorities similar to BCP demographics where lessons could be learnt, the Board was advised that this was going to be considered further over the next year.  It was noted that across the Southwest, BCP was the most improved area in the last annual report.  The Board was advised of some proposals to increase take up.

·       In response to a query about a public engagement event ran by Livewell Dorset, it was noted that an NHS health check had tight definitions of what it constituted and the need to communicate more clearly with public about understanding about blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diet and exercise about risk factors and signpost to where assessments could be accessed.

·       In response to a query whether the health checks were capturing the residents who would like to be seen with risk factors which needed to be checked, it was about 3-4% who would then go on to the primary care register.

·       In response to a query about whether the health checks were being promoted in the best way through BCP officers to target and promote through Adult Social Care and Customer Services and consideration of the right channel for that would be discussed.  ACTION.

·       The Chair concluded by highlighting the need for lessons to be learnt from the better performing areas to ensure equity of service and increased take up.

It is RECOMMENDED that:  ...  view the full minutes text for item 21.

To be considered in the planned development session.

It was noted that the Forward Plan would be considered as part of the development session.