Agenda and minutes

An apology was received from Dr. Joe McManners, Vice Chairman, Adult Health & Social Care Board

There were no Declarations of Interests from Board members.

Cllr Peter Skolar, Chairman of the Oxfordshire Joint Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee, addressed the Board wishing it well for the future and urging it to keep in mind the advantageous position it holds, in light of its standing, to promote the integration of the different agencies involved in a project, in order that unnecessary logistical problems could be avoided.

11.15

The draft Terms of Reference for the Board are attached (HB 05). The paper will be presented by Peter Clark, County Solicitor and Monitoring Officer. Members of the Board are requested to consider the terms of Reference and agree or suggest amendments to them.

The draft Terms of Reference for the Health & Well Being Board were AGREED subject to the following amendments:

-          Responsibilities – third bullet point becomes the second and vice versa;

-          Membership – clarification that the Chairman of the Public Involvement Board be the Chairman of HealthWatch;

-          Governance – the Health & Well Being Board to meet three times per year. The sub-Boards to determine the frequency of their meetings etc; and

-          The implicit reference to integration to be made explicit within the overall text of the Terms of Reference.

11.25

Dr Jonathan McWilliam, Director of Public Health, will present the attached paper (HBO6). This brief paper aims to set the scene for the work of Oxfordshire's Health and Wellbeing Board. It paints a high-level picture of the task before the Board and gives an overview of the possible priorities for discussion.

The Board noted the presentation given by Dr McWilliam which gave an overview of what the Board needed to achieve and the emerging priorities. A copy of the presentation is attached.

11.40

John Jackson, Director for Social and Community Services, will present the attached paper (HB07), which describes how the structure of the Health and Wellbeing set up in Oxfordshire is envisaged.

John Jackson presented his paper on the General Principles for Work of the Health & Well Being Board.

Following a question and answer session, the Board AGREED the statement of General Principles.

11.55

In addition to the Health and Wellbeing Board it is planned that there should be four other Boards with responsibilities for specific areas. These will be:

The Health Improvement Board

The Adult Health and Social Care Board

The Children and Young People’s Board

The Public Involvement Board

The attached papers (HB08 a, b and c) describe the anticipated roles of the first three of these boards. The papers will be presented by Jonathan McWilliam, John Jackson and Jim Leivers (Deputy Director for Children’s Social Care) respectively.

Councillor Mark Booty, Chairman of the Health Improvement Board; Cllr Arash Fatemian, Chairman of the Adult Health & Social Care Board; and Cllr Louise Chapman, Chairman of the Children & Young People’s Board each presented the vision, the context, the proposed membership and priorities of their respective Boards.

The Health & Well Being Board NOTED the presentations and their direction of travel.

12.40

Development of the fourth of the Boards mentioned in the previous item, the Public Involvement Board, is continuing. It is linked to the development of HealthWatch which will evolve from the Oxfordshire Local Involvement Network (LINk). The attached report (HB09) outlines progress and plans towards the commissioning of Oxfordshire’s Local HealthWatch and plans for developing the Public Involvement Board within the proposed Health and Wellbeing Board arrangements.

The paper will be presented by Alison Partridge, Engagement Manager for Oxfordshire County Council.

Sue Butterworth, the future Chair of the Public Involvement Board, outlined the progress and plans towards the commissioning of Oxfordshire’s HealthWatch; and plans for developing the Public Involvement Board.

The Board NOTED the report and thanked Sue Butterworth for her presentations.

12.55

This will be a verbal summary from John Jackson.

The Board noted a short summary given by John Jackson on the steps that would now be taken towards the production of a draft Joint Health & Well Being Strategy, for consideration at the next meeting. Further consultation on its development was to take place with key stakeholders. It was envisaged that the Strategy would be short and accessible which would be conducive to good engagement from the public. Plans were in place for the draft Strategy to be the subject of discussion at the first meetings of the respective Boards.

13.05

A summary of “what comes next” from Jonathan McWilliam. To include frequency and dates of future meetings.

The Board noted a verbal summary by Jonathan McWilliam of the next steps to be taken:

• The Partnership Boards would agree their Terms of Reference;
• They would finalise their outcomes/priority work plans which would feed into the draft formal Strategy for approval at the next meeting of the Health & Well-Being Board;
• Throughout the above process, the Public Involvement Board would be shaping up some firm proposals for public participation to submit to the March meeting;

The Board AGREED that there would be three meetings a year on dates to be determined shortly.

13.10

The meeting closed at 12.25 pm.

HB13a Health and Wellbeing – information on relevant legislation

HB13b Performance Framework for Public Health

HB13c Outcome Framework for Adult Health and Social Care

HB13d Outcome Framework for Children and Young People