Agenda item

RESOLVED:

To note the report

13.1  The Director of Strategic Development, East London, highlighted the following:

There was a focus across North East London on health and inequalities, greater financial wellbeing for the population and employment;

The 4 systems priorities were:

Babies, children and young people;

Long term conditions;

Workforce and employment;

Mental Health.

The importance of social connectedness with a growth in social isolation. Workshops were being run;

There was a current focus on tackling the Cost of Living Crisis, financial sustainability and workforce using the collective voice to influence;

Increased focus on prevention with an integrated focus.

13.2  Mayor Glanville highlighted the following:

That both the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and the Health and Wellbeing Strategy were always evolving with the need for the interactive work to continue;

The need to reduce inequalities in outcomes under the 4 systems priorities;

The need to improve the overall performance of the system including around access;

Hackney Council had made some clear positions around conditions such as  Sickle Cell and HIV. A long COVID-19 motion had recently been passed to ensure that this was fully recognised as a long term condition;

The need to reducing inequality in work around Mental Health;

The importance of the community and co-production together with resourcing the Community and Voluntary Sector in a sustainable way to ensure effective delivery;

The challenges facing the NHS were recognised but in focusing entirely on financial difficulties there was the chance of losing opportunities around prevention.

13.5  The Group Director for Adults, Health Integration and Public Health welcomed

the report, stressing the importance of a place based strategy feeding into the work of the Integrated Care System/ Integrated Care Board. Hackney Council had a coherent strategy linking to the other Council Strategies, preventing overlap. There was engagement with the place based strategy to ensure that there was a bottom up approach.

13.6   The Director of Public Health stressed that some conditions affected particular

communities. She considered that the Strategy should relate to people with long term conditions, providing examples of these. She emphasised the need to recognise the entire workforce, incorporating the needs and views of the Community and Voluntary Sector into the  Workforce Strategy for the health and care system in addition to employment and strategy. 

13.6  The Director of Nursing and Corporate Development at the GP Confederation

stressed the importance of having a Workforce Strategy across health and

social care, including community and voluntary organisations in this. She

considered that equalities and diversity should be considered in relation to Workforce and Employment. In addition to the system’s priorities there was a need to be aware of the priorities from NHS ENgland, the Department of Health and Social Care and Health Education England, dovetailing these into work programmes to meet all priorities.

13.7  Susan Masters considered that were currently a gap in the North East London

Workforce in relation to the Community and Voluntary Sector. Further, those

working in the voluntary sector were paid less than those in other sectors. This issue had been raised at a recent workshop where it had been proposed to open up the training available in the NHS and Local Government to the Community and Voluntary Sector.

14.8  Councillor Kennedy considered that the training referred to should be available

to the Community and Voluntary Sector, Volunteers and unpaid carers. There was much value to be derived from co-production at grassroots level, co-producing solutions, providing resilience in delivery. 

14.9  The Director of Strategic Development highlighted that:

There was a tight timeline for producing the strategy;

The timeline centred around providing guidance of the NHS 5 year plan, to be submitted by March next year;

The need for a dynamic process, working together on system development and learning and improvement;

There was a requirement to develop a workforce strategy which was currently in the early stages of production;

Work was ongoing on developing a collaborative across the Community and Voluntary Sector

RESOLVED:

To note the report