Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Public Health.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 has given local authorities and clinical commissioning groups equal and joint duties to prepare a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) through the health and wellbeing board.

This report sets out proposals for how this duty cold be discharged in 2014/15, including recommendations for the governance, management and process of delivering both the JSNA and PNA.

The Board is invited to:-

·         comment and, if accepted, approve the model for JSNA project governance set out in section 3.1 of the report;

·         identify any further areas that the JSNA should address which have not been detailed in the report, especially within section 3.2;

·         approve or provide alternative comments on the proposal that the PNA is published by March 2015.

Officer contact: Eleanor Banister,  0161 474 2447, eleanor.banister@stockport.gov.uk

The Director of Public Health submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing a proposal for the process for refreshing the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) in 2014/15, including a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA), and inviting the Board to make suggestions for areas of further work or analysis.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         The previous iteration of the JSNA involved a significant element of public engagement which was a strength of the document and should be continued.

·         The current JSNA would be used to inform decisions and thinking on the integration work as it was very much a ‘live’ document.

·         With Public Health now being based within the Council there was now additional capacity and expertise to help deliver the refreshed JSNA.

·         The JSNA, along with a suite of other documents such as the Annual Public Health Report and the Health & Wellbeing Strategy, provided ample analysis of inequalities and would informed proposals and policy development.

·         Safeguarding, the needs of vulnerable groups and healthy life expectancy should be considered for inclusion in the refresh in addition to issues that emerge from the process.

RESOLVED – (1) That

·         the model for the JSNA refresh project governance as set out in section 3.1 of the report be approved;

·         that consideration be given to the inclusion of the areas identified in the comments above, and

·         the proposals for the PNA be approved for publication by March 2015.

(2) That partners be requested to provide nominations for project leads form their organisations as soon as possible.