Meeting documents

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There were no new declarations.

The Board is asked to confirm the minutes are accurate.

The minutes were agreed without alteration.

The Chair will allow members of the public to ask a question or make a statement about any matter on the agenda for this meeting.

There were no public questions.

To approve the recommendations from the reports at the last meeting

Safer Somerset Partnership

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board endorsed the Safer Somerset Partnership Annual Report 2020-2021

Improving Health and Care Through the Home in Somerset

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board:

1.    Received for information the content of the report and noted the progress made with delivering the MoU

2.    Endorsed the ‘next steps’ for each of the priority areas within the MoU (identified within Appendix 1).

3.    Endorsed the need to redraft the climate change priority to provide clarity of actions required and agreed to bring this back to the Health and Wellbeing Board in September ’21 for further consideration.

4.     Made suggestions relating to the ‘next steps’, or additional activity for officer consideration.

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board approved all recommendations carried forward from the previous, non-quorate meeting.

To receive the presentation and discuss.

The Board Considered and commented on the information and the presentation.

The Deputy Director of Commissioning-Mental Health, Autism and Learning Disabilities for the CCG and his team made the presentation, including slides and a video.  He noted that the original presentation was going to cover a wide range of issues, including not just adults but also children, but the range was  ...  view the full minutes text for item 496.

To receive the presentation and discuss (presentation to follow)

The Board considered and commented on the information and presentation.

The Chief Executive of the NHS Somerset CCG made the presentation.  He first thanked everyone who had spoken on Open Mental Health and their integrated care system and emphasised that Somerset ICS is all about everyone being in it together.

He then discussed the key functions of the proposed ICB  ...  view the full minutes text for item 497.

To receive the presentation and discuss.

The Board considered and commented on the information and presentation.

SCC’s Director of Public Health spoke on the coming ICP and noted that this update carries on from earlier conversations regarding ICS, ICP and the Health and Wellbeing Board’s role.  Somerset has a tidy ICS system, better than in other places, with one central Health and Wellbeing Board in the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 498.

To discuss any items for the work programme. To assist the discussion, attached is the Board’s current work programme.

The Board considered the Work Programme.

The Chair noted that members can always email the Deputy Director of Public Health with items for the work programme, but the board would now be looking at the current programme.  It was questioned whether children’s mental health would be discussed at the next meeting; it was responded that there  ...  view the full minutes text for item 499.

The Chair may raise any items of urgent business.

It was observed that this meeting had been very difficult, with wifi problems and difficulties as far as hearing the speakers, which led to certain things being missed.  The Chair agreed but noted that there had been no decisions to be made on the issues presented at this meeting.  The  ...  view the full minutes text for item 500.