Issue - meetings

Report of the Chief Officer for Communities, Public Health, Environment and Prosperity, which reviews progress against the overarching priorities identified in the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Devon 2020-2025.

The appendix is available at https://www.devonhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/strategies/

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 2020-25.

The indicator list and performance summary within the full report set out the priorities, indicators and indicator types, and included a trend line, highlighting change over time.

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:

• Fuel Poverty, 2018 - The percentage of people classified as ‘fuel poor’ in Devon was 10.7% (down from 11.6% in 2017), placing Devon in the middle IMD quintile in England. Variation across the districts was minimal with all bar Teignbridge (9.6%) being significantly worse than the England average (9.4%);

• Adult Smoking Prevalence, 2019 - The percentage of adults in Devon who were currently smokers was 13.5% (up slightly from 13.4% in 2018), statistically similar to the England average of 13.9%. Variation across the districts was minimal with all districts being statistically similar to the England average; and,

• Estimated Dementia Diagnosis Rate (65+), 2020 - The estimated proportion of adults aged 65 and over with a dementia diagnosis in Devon was 59.7% (down slightly from 59.8% in 2019), significantly worse than the England average at 67.4%. Variation was minimal across the districts with all except, East Devon (65.3%), Exeter (70.8%) and West Devon (59.7%), being significantly worse than the England average.

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 performance report be noted and accepted.