Agenda item

The Panel received a presentation from the Service Manager of Policy, Insight and Change, on an interim update, which highlighted the work undertaken to date on the 2021 JSNA and the forward plan.

It was explained how the JSNA provided an intelligence overview of the health and wellbeing in the Borough and should be used for strategic commissioning purposes to understand the needs and assets in communities as well as health and wellbeing outcomes. 

The presentation covered the following areas;

·       Health and Well-Being Update

·       2021 Policy Refresh

·       New Publications

·       JSNA Overview

·       Insights

·       Immediate Next Steps – Short Term

·       Work Plan

There was a discussion held and the following areas were highlighted;

Engagement

It was noted that the information would be collated through a number of ways such through what was already available and by identifying what has already been captured, such as through Young Advisors’ Make Your Mark surveys and adult social care surveys.  It was continued that consideration would be given as to how that knowledge would be shared across teams and partners. 

In terms of reflecting what was happening in communities, Members were reminded of Doncaster Talks project that comprised of surveys, engagement and was centred around the Borough Strategy.  It was acknowledged that public engagement was fundamental to the work. 

The Director of Public Health assured Members that decision makers would still have responsibility in making sure that the ‘voice’ was captured and taken into account as part of the decision making process.

Asset Based Approach

Members heard how the JSNA was framed around needs, which required further understanding and to provide us with more leverage, for example, hard assets (buildings), wider determinants of infrastructure, service assets, locality, universal offer or individual places.  It was added that the hardest to measure would be the soft assets such as community groups, feelings, aspirations, culture and leisure.

The Director of Public Health agreed the localities element was very important.

Communication of JSNA

Members were informed that the work and communication around the JSNA was ongoing and that the website would be made available shortly.

Challenges in Developing the JSNA

It was explained that challenges taking forward the JSNA included:

·       Factual representation.

·       Validity of information – is the information reflective of people’s experiences.

·       Delay of national statistics publishing data and availability of local up-to-data.

·       How the pandemic has affected information?

Integrated Care System (ICS) and JSNA

There was a brief discussion around what role the Integrated Care System would take with the JSNA (and vice versa).  It was explained how the importance of ‘place’ was recognised through official statistics or understanding people.

It was outlined that the JSNA included a section on age (that included children and young people).  In addition to this, it was explained that there was information around what was going to happen and the wider determinants.  Members were told how the JSNA was used by the Council to develop and influence the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and identify its priorities.

Regarding strategic influences, it was advised that statistics indicated what the key issues were, what had been learnt from findings and how that would be fed into decision-making, plans and service performance.

It was commented that there may be a better way of commissioning deep dives and how scrutiny can be involved.

RESOLVED that the Panel note the information provided