Agenda item - Chair's Communications

The Chair of the Board will start the meeting with a short update on recent developments on health and wellbeing.

3.1       The Chair welcomed the new members of the Board Councillors Wealls and Moonan, and Dr Jim Graham and thanked the outgoing members Councillors Yates and Barnett, and Dr Sikdar. The Chair also congratulated Alistair Hill on his appointment as Director of Public Health.

3.2       The Chair stated:

“The first Health & Wellbeing Board in the Integration Shadow Year

Welcome to everyone. As the new chair of the Health & Wellbeing Board I am delighted to welcome you to the first meeting of the Board in its shadow year as we work to integration of key health and social care services.

This year is going to be very busy as we work towards integration. Over the year there will be a number of reports coming to the Board that will be putting clarity and shape into what integration means for the city and services to residents. One of the reports today, covering the Market Position Statement is an example of this.

We are integrating services to maximise provision in the city as well as responding to what people say:  that services are fragmented, the frustration of repeatedly telling their stories to professionals. This is what we are trying to change. It is going to be a journey and the standing agenda item Caring Together: Moving Towards Integration is going to be key in keeping us up to date with the changes as well as introducing the context to some of the reports that will come to each Board.  I have therefore asked for a more detailed discussion on this item at our next Board.

Older Peoples Festival

Each year the City holds an Older Peoples Festival. This annual event has grown in years and we are currently planning this year’s programme for the 24^th September to 5^th October. This year’s theme will be Aging Well in Brighton & Hove. A wide range of services are involved in getting this event underway and it is funded from the Public Health services within the Council.

As we get the planning for the current year underway it is worth seeing the impact of lasts year’s event with this short video.

https://youtu.be/sZiNBnYNT6E

This video was made by an amazing young woman who was using the services at the Young Peoples Centre. The Young People’s Centre is a safe space for young people to come and relax, chat to people and access good food, activities, counselling, life coaching, information and support for overall health and well-being. Information, advice and guidance on a range of issues as well as low-cost counselling and life coaching services.  The Young Peoples Centre found out she was studying film and was looking for projects.  We hope you like this result.

Healthwatch

https://www.healthwatchbrightonandhove.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/FINAL-Report-PDF-1.pdf

In February 2018 Healthwatch published a report titled:  Personal Independence Payments and Employment Support Allowance. Examining the impact of PIP and ESA assessments on vulnerable people in Brighton and Hove.

The report collated evidence from a number of local organisations about their experiences of supporting people through Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Employment Support Allowance assessment (ESA) interviews. It included a sample of the individual case studies and supporting organisational data that Healthwatch was provided with. It highlights the general issues that emerged from this research, and provides recommendations to the assessing organisations. Healthwatch wished to bring this report to the   attention of the Brighton and Hove Health and Wellbeing Board.  The link to the report will be in the full minutes for people to read.

Care Quality Commission

At a time when people often hear only negative headlines about care providers it was great to get very positive feedback at the recent Annual Social Care event. Held in April the   inspirational seminar talk by Andrea Sutcliff CBE (Chief Inspector of ASC CQC) provided some very positive comments about the city’s current CQC status.

Some headline information:

Nationally:

2% of all CQC registered providers currently are have an overall CQC rating of ‘Outstanding’

79 % of all CQC registered providers currently have an overall CQC rating of ‘Good’

It was mentioned that Brighton & Hove, is currently ahead of National averages for overall ‘Good’ ratings, and the city is ahead of national average of overall ‘Outstanding’.

Andrea shared there are currently 348 overall ‘inadequate’ providers nationally none of these are in the city.

This is really great news for registered providers within the City and for everyone (professionals) that works tirelessly supporting all care providers. Something everyone should be proud of.

Walking out of Darkness

On 24th June there is a Walking out of Darkness sponsored walk event. This event is an opportunity to bring the local / regional community together in order to raise mental health awareness and suicide prevention. The one things shared by all is ‘Wellbeing’ and the Walking Out Of Darkness event highlights ‘Collaboration, Communication and Consideration’; which is all important in ‘Wellbeing’. Therefore, any charity or business in the Brighton and Hove region and even the Pier is invited to participate to raise mental health awareness and suicide prevention on the day.

Further details can be found at details are available at www.walkingoutofdarkness.com (this links through to an Eventbrite booking page)

In addition to the Caring Together: Moving Towards Integration update at the next Board there will be an update on dementia and what the city is doing and what more we could do to help people with dementia and their carers.”

3.3       The Chair invited the Executive Director, Health & Adult Social Care and Chris Clark to update the board on the progress of integration. They stated that the Council and the CCG were starting from a positive place of established integrated working practices. The integration of health and social services could be an exciting turning point of the city as both the Council and CCG knew well the frustrations of services users when services were delivered in a disparate way. Going forward the Board would consider complex and challenging issues and it was vital that service users were kept at the forefront of everyone’s mind as it was their outcomes that mattered.