Board Member response to follow

Cllr Taylor, Member of Health Inequalities Panel presented the report.  The Board approved all the recommendations.

The Board discussed the following:

·         Broadening the remit of the social impact assessment for leisure services to include youth ambition has allowed a small percentage of NHS funds to be transferred from treating to preventing illness.

·         Some parts of the city offer no afterschool provisions. Council programmes eg youth ambition should be offered to these schools.

·         Linkages between health professionals, schools and council services need to be strengthened so that people are aware of the leisure and wellbeing activities available in their community.

·         Social prescribing in GP surgeries needs more council support and advice. GP advice is being covered by the advice commissioning review.

·         Integrating services hasn’t happened as well as we had hoped. Genuine partnership working been reduced due to austerity.

·         The Policy Manager will be responsible for taking these recommendations forward. 

The Panel has been tasked with considering the City Council’s response to the recommendations of Oxfordshire Commission on Health Inequalities.  The Panel may wish to agree recommendations to put to the City Executive Board (via the Scrutiny Committee).

Invited:

·         Professor Sian M Griffiths OBE, Chair of the Oxfordshire Commission on Health Inequalities;

·         Cllr Ed Turner, Commission member and Council Board Member for Finance, Asset Management and Public Health;

·         Cllr Gill Sanders, Older Person’s Champion;

·         Val Johnson; Policy and Partnerships Team Manager;

·         Frances Evans; Strategy and Service Development Manager;

·         Chris Harvey; OD, Learning and HR Support Manager.

Documents included:

·         Recommendations for action on Health Inequalities in Oxfordshire;

·         Oxford City Council activities to Promote Health and Wellbeing;

·         Health Inequalities recommendations relevant to Oxford City Council.

The Chair has suggested that the Panel focus on the recommendations most relevant to the City Council.