Agenda item

To receive the report of the Chief Officer Health Partnerships to provide the Inner West Community Committee with an overview of the progress made in shaping the Leeds Health and Care Plan following the previous conversation at each Community Committee in Spring 2017.

(Report attached)

The report of the Chief Officer Health and Partnerships, was presented to the Committee by Sue Rumbold, Chief Officer Partnerships Children and Families, Paul Bollom, Head of the Leeds Health and Care Plan and Dr Martin, Local GP from Whitehall Surgery.

The report provided an overview of the progress made in shaping the Leeds Health and Care Plan following the previous conversation at each Community Committee in Spring 2017. The Committee was informed that the Leeds Health and Care Plan was the description of what it envisaged health and care would look like in the future and how it would contribute to the delivery of the vision and outcomes of the Leeds Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2016-2021.

Sue Rumbold explained what the Leeds Left Shift was and how it supported the Leeds Health and Care Plan. Members were informed that the Leeds Left Shift focused on 4 principle elements: Prevention; Self-Management and Proactive Care; Optimising Secondary Care and Urgent Care and Rapid Response.

Members’ attention was drawn to key actions to be undertaken under the 4 elements of the Plan and how the focus of these actions was to build on what was strong and not what was wrong.

Dr Martin addressed the Committee highlighting the need for better communication across the city of health care workers and partners including those within the third sector.

Dr Martin went on to say that the services need to be more proactive and less reactive with a good flow of information through all stages of care for individuals.

Cllr. Lowe said that she had attended a briefing in relation to the Leeds Health and Care Plan. Cllr. Lowe provided an example of self-management courses given at the New Wortley Community Centre which addressed long term conditions. She went on to say that in her view the new models of care was good and would be better for communities.

In relation to prevention Members raised concerns that a number of surgeries in the area did not have enough flu vaccine and although the vaccine was available at pharmacies this was not being offered by GP’s.

In response to the concern raised it was realised that there was an inconsistency in communication between all areas and partners. There was a need to change the way people think about health services through education of families and young people and help them to know the routes to social subscribing. There was also a need to build on the relationships between pharmacies and surgeries even when pharmacies are seen as private businesses.

The Chair highlighted the fact that the NHS belonged to the people. The Chair read out a fact set out in the submitted report which she had found interesting “When the NHS was set up in 1948, half of us died before the age of 65. Now, two thirds of the patients hospitals are looking after are over the age of 65 life expectancy is going up by five hours a day” she said it showed the need for changes in the way services were accessed and delivered in the future.

Cllr. Lowe said that there was lots of work already taking place linking services, partnerships and third sector agencies. She said that she would be interested to hear how the Plan was doing next year going forward.

RESOLVED - To:-

·  Support the updated Leeds Plan as a basis for conversation with citizens on the future of health and care.

·  Actively support widespread conversation and discussion of the Leeds Plan and narrative to encourage feedback and comment.

·  Support the emerging model of Local Care Partnerships and actively engage with their development in their communities.