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Cambridge Local Health Partnership - Thursday, 25th June, 2015 12.00 pm

Venue: Committee Room 1 - The Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge, CB2 3QJ. View directions

Contact: Graham Saint  Strategy Officer

Items
No. Item

15/10/CLHP

Apologies

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Antoinette Jackson, Rachel Talbot, Elizabeth Locke, Liz Robin and Tim Moore.

15/11/CLHP

Election of Chair and Welcome

Minutes:

Councillor Richard Johnson was elected as Chair and Councillor Kevin Price appointed as Vice-Chair.

15/12/CLHP

Minutes and Matters Arising pdf icon PDF 78 KB

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 29 January 2015.

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on 29 January 2015 were approved and signed as a correct record.

15/13/CLHP

Public Questions

This is an opportunity for members of the public to ask a question or make a statement to the Partnership. Please refer to the Public Participation section at the end of this agenda.

Minutes:

There were no public questions.

15/14/CLHP

Presentation: Cambridge Sustainable Food

Bev Sedley, Chair of Cambridge Sustainable Food, will talk about a project being run by the group in the North of Cambridge to promote good cooking skills and healthy eating. Bev will also talk about the wider work of the group, including its Sustainable Fish Campaign and WW2 Nutrition Challenge, and the process of making Cambridge an accredited Sustainable Food City. You can find out more about Cambridge Sustainable Food here: http://www.cambridgesustainablefood.org/

 

Minutes:

Bev Sedley, Chair of Cambridge Sustainable Food (CSF), outlined the work of the group, including its recent Sustainable Fish Campaign and WW2 Nutrition Challenge, and the process of making Cambridge an accredited Sustainable Food City.

 

A project being run by the group in the North of Cambridge to promote good cooking skills and healthy eating was being funded by the City Council. A number of other projects involving family cookery, as part of local initiatives to combat poverty, were also now emerging and CSF was looking to help co-ordinate this work in the City.

 

Members were advised that whilst the group had good links with public agencies it still needed some health contacts to assist its work. It was said the Health Trainer Service had recently been restructured and would a good entry point for the group, into the health service. Future work would include attending community events as part of the “Love Food Hate Waste” campaign and arranging a Pumpkin Festival in Cambridge, similar to a successful event held in Oxford last year.

 

Members welcomed the presentation and offered their support for the work of the group, particularly the anti-poverty project.

 

Further information on Cambridge Sustainable Food could be found at the link below:

 

http://www.cambridgesustainablefood.org/

 

15/15/CLHP

Updates

15/15/CLHPa

Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB)

Minutes:

Adrian Lyne, Policy and Projects Officer at Cambridgeshire County Council, outlined the items on the 2 July 2015 Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) agenda. Papers could be found at the link below:

 

http://www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/CommitteeMinutes/Committees/Meeting.aspx?meetingID=994s

 

Adrian described the new format for the HWB meetings, which were to be themed and include a “patient story”. This meeting will cover Priority 2, supporting older people to be independent, safe and well and include other business, such as the Health Care Transformation Programme, Annual Public Health Report, Local Quality Premium Indicators and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Reports.

 

The JSNA Summary Report gave an overview of health issues and the alcohol and drugs scoping paper would show how this issue would be addressed.

 

15/15/CLHPb

Health Committee

Minutes:

 

Kate Parker, Head of Public Health Programmes at Cambridgeshire County Council outlined some of the issues being discussed at the forthcoming 16 July 2015 Health Committee meeting.

 

The agenda and supporting papers could be found at the link below:

http://www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/CommitteeMinutes/Committees/Committee.aspx?committeeID=76

 

15/16/CLHP

Setting Out Our Priorities

Minutes:

Graham Saint, Strategy Officer, Cambridge City Council, invited Members to give their views about where the Partnership should focus its work over the next year, taking into account the recent publication of the 2015 Health Profile for Cambridge and the Director of Public Health’s Annual Public Health Report (2014 – 2015) on the health of local people.

 

It was agreed that the Partnership should continue to meet quarterly and in advance of the HWB meetings, where possible, to provide views to it about local issues. It was noted that the HWB would be meeting six times a year, so Partnership meetings should seek to coincide with four meetings, where possible, and seek the input of Members, when appropriate, by email for the two remaining HWB meetings.

 

It was noted that the next HWB meeting would be covering mental health and Members agreed that this should be the main theme for the Partnership’s next meeting on 10 September.

 

Members stated they would like more information about the PHOF self-harm indicator, to try and look behind this measure for underlying reasons for its significantly high rating in Cambridge. Members were also keen to discuss actions for Cambridge in the recently agreed Public Mental Health Strategy.

 

It was felt that the Partnership should look to add value where it could to local work, and put in place actions for narrower topics, and it was agreed that it should look at its next meeting:

 

World Mental Health Week: 5th to the 10th October 2015.

The City Council took the opportunity to raise awareness about mental health issues last year with its staff and the public through a series of events. A wider partnership approach could enhance local activities.

 

Developing a robust “Hoarders” policy:

To help improve the response to isolated local people who may be having mental health difficulties.

 

Members also discussed some of the findings of the recent Transport and Health JSNA that revealed inequalities in access to health and social care facilities in the City. It was agreed that a future meeting should look at this and how others work, especially City Deal, could help alleviate some of the local problems.

 

 

A draft Forward Plan would be prepared showing the proposed items the Partnership wished to consider. The terms of reference would remain unchanged.

 

It was also agreed that Members would continue to monitor progress with fuel poverty and falls prevention work.

 

 

15/17/CLHP

Areas of Focus

Minutes:

 

Cambridge CAB Outreach project at East Barnwell Medical Practice

 

Jane Belman, Board member of Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) advised that an Advice Worker had been recruited who had started in the health centre in May, currently attending the centre once-a-week, and up until mid-June had seen eight clients. This had resulted in potentially an additional income of £10,000 in benefit that the clients were entitled to claim.

 

Evaluation indicators had been developed with the Health Centre and were being collected. As this was a pilot, Cambridge CAB and the Health Centre staff had been learning about what worked as they went along.

 

Dr Harmer informed the Partnership that she had found it helpful to be able to refer patients for advice.

15/18/CLHP

Date of Next Meeting

Minutes:

10 September 2015, 1.00pm, The Guildhall.

 

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