Issue - meetings

Report of the Chief Officer for Community, Public Health, Environment and Prosperity, which reviews progress against the overarching priorities identified in the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Devon 2016-2019.

The appendix is available at http://www.devonhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/jsna/health-and-wellbeing-outcomes-report/

The Board considered a report from the Chief Officer for Communities, Public Health, Environment and Prosperity on the performance for the Board, which monitored the priorities identified in the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Devon 2016-2019.

The Board received an ‘updates only’ version of the Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Report.  The report was themed around the five Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2016-19 priorities and included breakdowns by South West benchmarking, local authority district and local authority comparator group, clinical commissioning group, and locality comparison, trend and future trajectories and inequalities characteristics. The indicators below had all been updated since the last report to the Board;

·         Adult Smoking Prevalence, 2017 – The latest figures from the Annual Population Survey (APS) indicated that 13.5% of the Adult population in Devon smoked. Rates remained lower than the South West, local authority comparator group and England; however, rates had increased slightly in Devon since 2014. Differences between local authority districts in Devon were not statistically significant, although rates in West Devon (4.9%) were significantly below the South West and England rates.

·         Feel Supported to Manage Own Condition.  In Devon during 2017-18, 59.6% of people with a long-term condition in the GP survey, felt they had enough support to manage their own condition. This was significantly higher than South West (57.3%), local authority comparator group (55.5%) and England (55.3%) rates. Rates had decreased from 2016-17 and were highest in the South Hams (62.8%).

·         Fuel Poverty, 2016 – Just under one in ten households in Devon were in fuel poverty (10.9%). Levels of fuel poverty had increased between 2011 and 2014 in Devon, but fell or remained stable in many other areas of the country. Since then, in Devon, rates had fallen from 2014. Despite this, rates continued to remain above the South West and local authority comparator group rates.

·         Estimated Dementia Diagnosis Rate (65+), 2018 – In April 2018, it was estimated that 7,577 people in Devon aged 65 and over were on a GP register for dementia. Recent data showed that Devon (59.4%) was lower than the South West (61.8%), local authority comparator group (63.5%) and significantly lower than England (67.5%) rates.  Within the county, the highest rates were seen in Exeter (69.3%) and lowest in the South Hams (44.7%). Devon did not meet the dementia diagnosis target set at 67% by NHS England.

The Report proposed changes to the way in which the outcomes report was reported in the future, to make it more accessible to all.  The Board received a presentation outlining how this would be achieved, which included a new streamlined technical report and an update on interventions relating to these indicators.  The Board welcomed the new presentation format and wished to receive similar style presentations in the future.

The outcomes report was also available on the Devon Health and Wellbeing website www.devonhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/jsna/health-and-wellbeing-outcomes-report

RESOLVED that the outcomes report be noted and accepted.