Transcript Liam Hughes, Chair, Oldham Health and Wellbeing Board

Effective Representation for
Health and Wellbeing
Liam Hughes
Chair, Oldham HWBB and Associate
of the LGA and Networkidea
The New Landscape
for Health and Wellbeing
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HealthWatch, CQC (and Monitor)
Overview and Scrutiny
NHS Commissioning Board
Clinical Commissioning Groups
Public Health England
Transfer of (some) public health
staff and functions to local councils
• Health and Wellbeing Boards
Health and Wellbeing Boards
- the policy ambition!
People and
Places
Health and
Wellbeing
Better
Outcomes
JSNA
Service
Integration
Productivity
Efficiency
Health and Wellbeing Boards
• Committees of the Council – like none other!
• Strategic leadership for the health and wellbeing
system
• Partners – Councillors, GPs, Statutory Officers and
HealthWatch plus …
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Health
and Wellbeing Strategies
• Informing, Influencing, Directing
• “Holding to Account”
Improving health, reducing health
inequalities
• Wider determinants of health
• Lifestyles and health behaviours
• Services – access, quality, integration
• Health protection and resilience
Board Effectiveness
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Leadership and partnership
Strategies, priorities, needs and assets
Community engagement and communications
Co-production (?)
Governance and accountability
Impact and outcomes
The Oldham Story
• A Co-operative Community
• Localities and a life-course approach
• 3 Strategic Themes:
- Giving every child the best start in life
- Living, learning and working well
- Ageing well and later-life care
HealthWatch in Oldham
• Individual complaints and advocacy
- Greater Manchester
• Information, advice and advocacy
- Gaddum
• Influencing
- Gaddum
Some emerging issues (1)
HealthWatch
• “HealthWatch : caught in the middle?”
-corporate member of board
- independent voice for local people
• Independent yet established by council
• Not about individual cases or conditions
• “Being a critical friend” – a skilled
performance!
• Who will be most suited?
Some emerging issues (2)
CVF Sectors
• Multiple voices - complexity
• Experience and information about assets
and needs
• Commitment, passion and energy
• Resources
• Co-production:
- involvement in the design phase
- reviewing effectiveness
Making the jigsaw fit at local level:
HWBBs, CCGs, Community, Voluntary and Faith
Sectors, Providers and other partners….