Agenda item

This paper describes the status of projects in the Health and Wellbeing Strategy against previously agreed milestones as of July 2020. Given the summary nature of the June report this aims to provide more detail across all the priorities through highlighting progress being made whilst also continuing to recognise where there is a continued impact resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This varies between delays, continuing with a different focus, or continuing with a heightened focus or additional activity.

Witnesses:

Rod Brown - Head of Communities and Housing, Epsom and Ewell District Council (Priority One Sponsor)

Giles Mahoney - Director of Integrated Care Partnerships, Guildford and Waverley CCG (Priority Two Sponsor)

David Munro - Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner (on behalf of the Priority Three Sponsor Rob Moran)

Satyam Bhagwanani - Head of Analytics and Insight (SCC)

Key points raised in the discussion:

1.   The Priority One Sponsor noted that whilst Covid-19 impacted on the priority’s progress, momentum had been regained and in certain instances such as domestic abuse and housing, that impact had accelerated during Covid-19. On occasion there were ownership issues in some focus areas but those were being addressed in conjunction with the Prevention Board.

2.   The Priority Two Sponsor thanked the Chairman and Board members,noting that he had enjoyed his time on the Board and would continue to keep a close eye on the recovery work and NHS Covid-19 Phase 3 whilst at Surrey Heartlands and Guildford and Waverley ICP. He added that Dr Helen Rostill would be well placed to take over as Priority Two Sponsor. In response, the Chairman thanked Giles on behalf of the Board for his huge contribution on the Board and as Priority Sponsor.

3.   On behalf of the Priority Three Sponsor, the Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner explained that as a result of the Board’s merger with the Community Safety Board in March 2020, work was underway to integrate the Community Safety Agreement with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy through a new third focus area. A task and finish group had been set up to oversee that work and was chaired by the Community Safety Policy and Commissioning Lead (OPCC).

4.   Concerning Priority Three, the Head of Analytics and Insight provided an update on the Social Progress Index (SPI) and the Recovery Progress Index (RPI). He informed the Board that:

-  A workshop on the SPI was run pre-Covid-19 with partners across Surrey and the result was the identification of three-hundred indicators. Those indicators were cross referenced with various strategies including the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and those partners were invited back to refine the indicators which later formed the SPI.

-  Due to Covid-19 work had been paused but had picked up over the past few months including work on the RPI which was a surveillance tool for monitoring how well Surrey was recovering from the pandemic and it formed part of the Community Impact Assessment (CIA).

-  The RPI was a focused subset of the SPI and measured the broad impact of Covid-19 in surrey through five dimensions: economy, health, place, society and infrastructure. There would be a rank and score for each dimension as well as a combined overall rank and score for each of the eleven district and boroughs in Surrey for the RPI and further down to ward level for the SPI. The RPI was updated quarterly and the high-level results were presented in the CIA item.

-  A Covid RPI dashboard was being produced holding all the data via Tableau, allowing comparison between areas.

5.   The Chairman queried whether Board members could access the dashboard via Tableau and in response the Head of Analytics and Insight commented that a licence was needed to be a Tableau reader which could be explored. Another option was to make static copies available to Board members, although the Vice-Chairman noted that as being less helpful.

6.   The Head of Analytics and Insight stressed that the challenge around the RPI was ensuing the same data for each of the eleven districts and boroughs, which he would be discussing with the Surrey Chief Executives Group.

RESOLVED:

The Health and Wellbeing Board:

1.   Approved the continued programmes of work within each of the Priority focus areas and that they be reviewed by the priority boards / coordinating groups to incorporate as necessary the outcomes of the Rapid Needs Assessments.

2.   Discussed and agreed a new sponsor for priority 2 - Dr Helen Rostill, Director of Innovation & Development, Surrey and Borders Partnership – NHS Foundation Trust (SABP).

3.   Agreed to a refresh of the published Health & Wellbeing Board (HWB) strategy to reflect the merger with the Community Safety Board within the strategy. This will include the addition of a third focus area under Priority Three to imbed community safety and meet the expectations as set out in the merger paper from March 2020.

4.   Agreed that the HWB adopt the longer term oversight of relevant work identified within the current ‘Place’ - appendix 2, ‘Economy and Retail’ - appendix 4 in the supplementary agenda and ‘Health and Social Care’ - to be attached to the minutes as Annex B (appendix 5) and future RCG papers detailing the handover of those workstreams and ask the Prevention and Wider Determinants Board, and the Employment and Skills Board respectively to review and if necessary amend the existing priority one to three implementation plans.

Actions/further information to be provided:

1.    An update on the new third focus area concerning community safety within Priority Three, including the workstream leads and governance structures will be brought back to Board in due course.

2.    The Head of Analytics and Insight will explore Board members’ access to the Covid RPI dashboard via Tableau.