Decision details

The Board considered the refreshed Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Five-Year Plan 2023-2028 which would underpin the work to reduce inequalities and improve health and care service provision over the next five years.

The Strategy took into account the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board and the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Partnership, the formal recognition of the ‘Place’ being coterminous with the local authority geography and the Care Communities operating at a local ‘neighbourhood’ level. It summarised the challenges faced as a system. There was focus on the wider determinants of health in recognition of the impact that those have and the need for the Health and Wellbeing Board to galvanise partners to work in partnership to address those. In addition, it set out the challenges for health and care providers and the aspirations to work together to improve services and outcomes for residents/patients through a more integrated approach.

The feedback from the public engagement undertaken in January 2023 demonstrated a good level of support for the vision, strategic outcomes and model of care.

Guy Kilminster was thanked by board members for his hard work in creating the document and the Board acknowledged that the challenge going forward would be how to deploy resources to those areas where there was greatest need and impact.

RESOLVED:-

That the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Five-Year Plan 2023-2028 be approved.