Issue - meetings

Background:

This report presented the final version of Medway’s Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS) 2018-2023 in line with the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

The JHWS contained a proposed vision and a set of priorities, which had been chosen following the review of feedback from community engagement events, evidence from the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and input from health and social care professionals and wider stakeholders including the voluntary sector. The strategy, which updated the previous JHWS agreed in 2012, was based around the same five strategic themes:

·           Give every child a good start

·           Enable our older population to live independently and well

·           Prevent early death and increase years of healthy life

·           Improve physical and mental health and wellbeing

·           Reduce health inequalities

The report explained that consultation to identify areas of importance to Medway residents was carried out and influenced the development of priority actions to deliver on the themes listed above.

It was noted that the Health and Wellbeing Board on 3 July 2018 and 6 November 2018 and the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 21 August 2018 had considered the Strategy. Their comments were set out in the report.

A Diversity Impact Assessment screening form was attached at Appendix B to the report.

Reasons:

The strategy sets out the health and wellbeing issues for the community based on evidence from the Medway Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, what can be done to address them and what outcomes are intended to be achieved.