Agenda and decisions

To note that the County Council’s Lead Member for Health, Mrs L Richardson CC, has been appointed Chairman for the period ending with the date of the Annual Meeting of the County Council in 2025.

(a)  That the Leicestershire Better Care Fund (BCF) Plan 2024/25 Planning Template be noted.

(b)  That the action to be taken by the Chief Executive of Leicestershire County Council, following consultation with the Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board to approve the BCF 2024/25 report and use his delegated powers to approve it for the NHSE submission deadline of 10 June 2024 be noted.

(a)  That the performance against the BCF outcome metrics and the positive progress made in transforming health and care pathways in 2023-24 be noted.

(b)  That the year-end BCF 2023-24 template, appended to the report, for submission to NHS England by the submission deadline of 23 May 2024, be approved.

a)    That the findings and recommendations of the Mental Health (Adults) Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Chapter and approve them for publication be supported.

b)    That the proposal that the relevant strategic leads take forward the findings and recommendations of the Chapter via activity in commissioning plans, strategies, through partnership working, and via the mental health subgroup, be supported.

That the progress made to date be noted.

That the Health Protection Annual Report 2023 be noted and in particular the specific health protection issues that have arisen locally, the steps taken to deal with them, and the areas of focus for the coming year.

That the update on the development of the strategy and the next steps be noted.

(a)  That the progress of the seven Community Health and Wellbeing Plans within Leicestershire County be noted.

(b)  That the outcomes of the lessons learnt exercise and resultant action plan be noted.

(c)  That the escalations and celebrations outlined in the report be noted.

(d) That the proposal that future updates be provided via the Staying Healthy Partnership update report or directly by exception be noted.

(a)     That the progress being made in relation to delivering against the Staying Healthy, Safe and Well priorities be noted.

(b)     That the progress being made in relation to delivering against the reducing health inequalities cross cutting priority be noted.

(a) That the progress in delivering the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy priorities be noted, including the holding of an End-of-Life development session in March 2024.

(b) That the additional plans for delivery of integrated services in 2024-25 be noted.

That the proposed approach for producing the HWB Annual Report for 2023/24 be approved.

The next meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board will be held on 26 September 2024 at 2 pm.