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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/

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The Board considered a report from the Chief Officer for Community, 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 in December 2017;

 

·         Children in Poverty, 2015 – 11.9% of children in Devon lived in households dependent on benefits or tax credits. This figure had fallen from 2014, and Devon was statistically significantly lower than the South West, comparator group and national rates.

·         Early Years Foundation Score – In 2017, 71.0% of children in Devon achieved a good level of development at school entry, compared to 70.5% for the South West, 71.1% for the local authority comparator group and 70.7% for England.

·         Teenage Conception Rate– Conceptions to under 18s had fallen in Devon and were broadly similar to South West and comparator group rates; locally rates were highest in Teignbridge.

·         Alcohol-Related Admissions – there were around 4,900 alcohol related admissions to hospital for Devon residents in 2016/17.

·         Male Life Expectancy Gap, 2014-16 – Comparing life expectancy in the most and least deprived communities in Devon, the Slope Index of inequality revealed the gap in life expectancy for males was 5.8 years, significantly lower than South West and England.

·         Female Life Expectancy Gap, 2014-16 – for females, the gap was 4.0 years; significantly lower than the South West, local authority comparator group and England.

·         Healthy Life Expectancy Male, 2014-16 – Males in Devon could expect to live for 66.7 years in good health, compared with 63.3 years in England, 64.5 years in the South West, and 65.0 years in the local authority comparator group.

·         Healthy Life Expectancy Female, 2014-16 – Females in Devon could expect to live for 65.9 years in good health, compared with 63.9 years in England, 65.1 years in the South West, and 66.5 years in the local authority comparator group.

·         Injuries Due to Falls, 2016-17 – the age standardised rate per 100,000 for injuries due to falls in Devon was 1731.2, which was below the South West, local authority comparator group and England rates.

·         Rough sleeping rate per 1,000 households, 2017 – it was estimated that 78 people were sleeping rough in Devon, in Autumn 2017. Within Devon rates were highest in Exeter, based on an estimate of 35, and North Devon, based on a count of 20.

·         Self-Reported Wellbeing (low happiness score %), 2016/17 – 7.24% of the Devon population had a low happiness score on the index compared with 8.56% for the South West, 8.11% in the local authority comparator group and 8.54% in England overall.

 

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.

 

 

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