Agenda

Members of the public who wish to speak on an item on the agenda at this meeting, or present a petition, can attend the meeting in person or ‘virtually’ through an online connection.

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To approve the Note of Decisions/Minutes of the meeting held on 4 December 2025 and to receive information arising from them.

The purpose of this item is to address the Mental Health Motion passed by Oxfordshire County Council at its meeting on 9 December 2025. Oxfordshire County Council passed a motion requesting that the Health & Wellbeing Board (HWB) invite the Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee (JHOSC) to investigate and report on how mental health services provided by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and wider system partners are addressing the rising prevalence and impact of poor mental health among adults and children in Oxfordshire.

The wording of the motion agreed was as follows:

“This Council being deeply concerned by the impact of poor mental health on adults and children in the County asks the Health and Wellbeing Board to request the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee to investigate and report back to them and to the County Council on how Mental Health services provided by Oxford Health and other organisations are tackling this issue.

Such an investigation of issues needs to include addressing accessibility to services including:

·       Prevention

·       Assessment

·       Therapeutic support

·       Medication

·       Emergency intervention such as "sectioning"

·       Inpatient beds

How these issues impact on other public services such Community Safety, Public Health, Housing, Schools, Fire and Rescue and the Police also needs to be assessed and understood. Most of all poor mental health impacts on individuals, families, and communities around the County and this must be addressed.

Council requests that the outcome of the investigation be sent to the appropriate Secretaries of State.”

The Health and Wellbeing Board is RECOMMENDED to:

1.    AGREE to request the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee to investigate mental health services and follow up as outlined in the wording of the motion.

PLEASE NOTE: The Report and Recommendations to the Board for this item are to follow; and will be published as an addenda after consideration and agreement by the Primary and Community Care Board and Place-Based Partnership endorsement on 6^th March 2026.

The Health and Wellbeing Board is RECOMMENDED to:

1.             NOTE the progress on the delivery of priorities 5 & 6 for Age Well within the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

2.             NOTE and AGREE the proposed amendments to the Health and Wellbeing Board Shared Outcome metrics.

The Health & Wellbeing Board is RECOMMENDED to:

1.    NOTE the activities and outcomes of the Safer Oxfordshire & Oxfordshire Domestic Abuse Strategic Board, reflected in Annex 1 & 2.

The Health and Wellbeing Board is RECOMMENDED to:

1.    NOTE and consider the 2025/26 Director of Public Health Annual Report and specifically note the progress made to address health inequalities in Oxfordshire following the publication of the Director of Public Health Annual Report in 2019/2020, which marked a pivotal moment in Oxfordshire.

2.    SUPPORT the interactive format of the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2025/26 and note the insights that can be used for informing future service delivery plans.

The Health and Wellbeing Board is RECOMMENDED to:

1.    NOTE the Community Insight Profile Development Framework (CIPs Toolkit) as a core legacy product of the Public Health led Community Insight Profiles (CIP) programme.

2.    NOTE the alignment of the Toolkit with the Board’s prevention and inequalities priorities, the Marmot Place work and the Director of Public Health Annual Report (DPHAR) 2025/26.

3.    SUPPORT dissemination and use of the CIPs Toolkit across partners and communities to enable locally led CIPs and action plans.

The Health and Wellbeing Board is RECOMMENDED to:

1.    NOTE the progress made through the Marmot programme and the partnership with the Institute for Health Equity.

2.    NOTE the need to embed accountability further to the publication of the following reports to address inequities:

§  IHE Maternity, Babies, Children and Young People deep dive

§  Rural Inequalities review

§  IHE Fair Employment deep dive

To receive and NOTE the Healthwatch Oxfordshire Report on patient views and experiences of Oxfordshire health and care services.

The purpose of this item is to receive an update on the establishment and activities of the Health and Wellbeing Board Working Group on an Independent Patient Voice. Please see a report in the agenda for this.

The Health and Wellbeing Board is RECOMMENDED to:

1. AGREE to formally establish a working group on an independent patient voice.

2. AGREE that the working group will explore and evaluate models for a future independent patient voice function in Oxfordshire following the imminent abolition of Healthwatch by government legislation.

3. AGREE to the proposed membership of the working group outlined in this report below.

4. DELEGATE to the working group the power to oversee the commissioning of a public engagement exercise to explore the future of an independent patient voice, using the available Healthwatch grant underspend prior to April 2026.

5. AGREE to receive an update from the working group on a likely future independent voice function subsequent to the passing of government legislation to formally abolish Healthwatch.

To receive updates from Partnership Boards.

·       Place-Based Partnership (Written Update).

·       Health Improvement Board (Verbal Update).

·       Children’s Trust Board (Verbal Update).

The Board is asked to NOTE the forward work programme.