Agenda item

Report of Kirston Nelson, Chief Partnership Officer/ Director of Education and Skills

The Board received a report from Kirston Nelson, Chief Partnership Officer/ Director of Education and Skills which was an update on the outcomes of the Coventry and Warwickshire Place Forum held on 9^th March, 2022.

The report noted that an online development session for Coventry and Warwickshire Place Forum (the two Health and Wellbeing Boards) was held, with around 40 members attending.  The meeting was chaired by the Health and Wellbeing Board chairs, Cllr Margaret Bell and Cllr Kamran Caan, and facilitated by Nigel Minns (WCC) and Kirston Nelson (CCC).

This was the last meeting of the Place Forum in its current guise, pending the new statutory governance arrangements to be established for the Integrated Care System.  It was an opportunity to reflect on the Place Forum journey to date and share proposals for future arrangements.  It was noted that the Place Forum, which had been meeting since December 2017, had prepared the local authorities for the new statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP).

A number of presentations were shared and discussed the last meeting of the Place Forum including:

·  Integrated Care Systems (ICS) update and Statutory Integrated Care Partnership.  An update on progress in the transition to a statutory ICS and proposed governance arrangements, including recommendations for the new Integrated Care Partnership reflecting feedback from the previous meeting of the Place Forum and its role in developing an Integrated Care Strategy for the ICS.

·  Health and social care integration, the joining up of care for people, places and populations. Reflections on the recently published White Paper on health and social care integration at place level, and its implications for Coventry and Warwickshire.  The scope of the White Paper covered proposals on: shared outcomes; leadership, accountability and finance; digital and data; and the health and care workforce and carers.

·  System Health Inequalities Plan: An update on progress with the 5 year strategic inequalities plan for the ICS that was a requirement of NHS England.  Feedback from the separate Health and Wellbeing Boards on early proposals was addressed in the latest iteration of the plan.  The plan had a particular health and care system focus, in the context of wider system action around the population health model.  A draft plan must be submitted to NHSEI by the end of March, with final submission by end of April.

·  Digital Transformation Strategy.  A presentation on the draft ICS strategy for data and digital transformation, which was currently subject to consultation.  Coventry and Warwickshire were working with NHSX as a national trailblazer for creation of a system-wide digital strategy. Members discussed the value of integrated data in generating actionable insights and the opportunities to improve population health through joined up data and digital healthcare delivery.  Concerns around digital inclusion and implications for the workforce were shared.

·  Healthy Communities Together programme update.  A partnership between Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire, CWPT and Coventry City Council, was one of 4 partnerships to be funded through this national programme (led by The King’s Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund).  The programme was about tackling health inequalities through changing the way services and communities connect in order to give people the best chance of getting and staying well.  It was testing a new model of collaboration, centred on the lived experience of an individual.

·  Developing our Integrated Care Board (ICB) Community Engagement Strategy.  NHSEI required the ICS to have an overarching framework in place to support engagement activities and plans to involve and empower people and communities.  This was core to the ICS vision of “putting people at the heart of everything we do”.  Members discussed the importance of listening to communities to shift to meeting need instead of responding to demand.  A proposal to establish an ICS-wide Involvement Network with a wide range of partners was welcomed.

·  Suicide Prevention Strategy consultation.  The presentation shared learning from work across Coventry and Warwickshire as part of the national suicide prevention programme, as well as plans for a joint strategy, delivery plan and partnership arrangements to take this work forward.  A proposed vision and high- level approach to the strategy were shared, with consultation details to be shared in due course.

The following actions were proposed for partners:

•  Share feedback on proposals and engage in further development of ICS at system and place

•  Commit to ongoing engagement and participation in the renewed ‘Place Forum’

•  Champion and support embedding the Inequalities System Plan in your organisation and partnerships

•  Support and champion the system approach to involving and engaging individuals and communities across Coventry and Warwickshire

•  Respond to consultation on and promote the Digital Transformation Strategy 

•  Share feedback on proposals for developing the Coventry and Warwickshire Suicide Prevention Strategy and take opportunities to support suicide prevention activity across and within system partners.

Further to discussion at a private development session of the Place Forum in November, specific proposals were made regarding the future of the Place Forum in the context of the new statutory Integrated Care Partnership, to be in place from July 2022.

Name proposal:

C&W Integrated Health & Wellbeing Forum

Purpose of Forum:

Advisory role for the ICS and to reflect community voice from across Coventry and Warwickshire.

Initial membership:

Health and Wellbeing Boards (and Executives); ICP members; Care Collaborative and Place representatives

Meeting frequency:

3 times per year

It was proposed that the statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) would be established and meet in shadow form in May 2022, beginning with early work on the Integrated Care Strategy.  Once the membership of the ICP was confirmed, the first meeting of the newly established C&W Integrated Health and Wellbeing Forum would be arranged for June / July 2022.  The Integrated Care Strategy must be approved by the ICP by December 2022.

RESOLVED that the Health and Wellbeing Board note the contents of the report and the next steps and actions resulting from the Coventry and Warwickshire Place Forum meeting held on 9 March 2022 and endorse the proposed arrangements for the future of the ‘Place Forum’.