Issue - meetings

To consider a joint report of the Director of Public Health and Director of Adult Social Care.

The report presents the draft 2024/25 Agreement for the Health and Adult Social Care Portfolio for consideration and comment by the Committee.

The Scrutiny Committee is recommended to review and comment on the draft Portfolio Agreement.

Officer contact: Gaynor Ward on 0161 474 3186 or email: gaynor.ward@stockport.gov.uk and Paul Graham by email: paul.graham@stockport.gov.uk 

The Director of Adult Social Care and Director of Public Health submitted a joint report (copies of which had been circulated) presenting the draft 2024/25 Agreement for the Health and Adult Social Care Portfolio for consideration and comment by the Committee.

The Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care (Councillor Keith Holloway) attended the meeting to respond to questions from the Scrutiny Committee.

The following comments were made/issues raised:-

·         The inclusion of new performance measures relating to the number of people who are accessing a Stockport Local appointment; the percentage of contacts who do not progress to Adult Social Care having received Service at the point of contact; the performance of the prevention contract with Stockport Support Hub; the number of people who are in receipt of Technology Enabled Care; and the number of people leaving reablement with a reduced level of care was welcomed.

·         Key to tackling health inequalities is understanding the rate of premature mortality and life expectancy differences across the levels of deprivation.  In response, it was commented that determinants of our health were largely non-health care related and were connected to the conditions in which people lived.

·         It was noted that some local authorities were working to restrict the opening of takeaways in deprived areas and which was indicative of the means available to councils to influence overall determinants of health.

·         It was commented that in many deprived areas, larger supermarkets were often some distance away and that these communities often found themselves served by smaller convenience stores were staple goods were not competitively priced.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.