Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Adults, Health & Housing providing an update on the Southampton Health and Wellbeing Strategy indicators and the most recent year’s work programme of the JSNA.

The Board considered the report of the Cabinet Member Adults, Health and Housing which provided an update on the Southampton Health and Wellbeing Strategy (HWBS) indicators and the most recent year’s work programme of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

Vicky Toomey, Senior Strategic Intelligence Analyst. Intelligence, Innovation & Change, Southampton City Council; was present and with the consent of the Chair addressed the Board.

The Board noted that the 2021 Census data was published this year which has helped to provide up-to-date information on the city population, although it was noted that the Covid pandemic may have skewed the data on home carers and there was less data on the student population as the Census was taken when students had returned home for the Easter break.

The Board also noted that outcomes achieved to date included the development of the Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Strategy; the smoke free and vaping strategy and a mental health strategy is planned to be published in 2024.

The Board noted that monitoring and analysis of the HWBS and the JSNA would be utilised to identify new priorities for the next strategy when the current strategy term ends in 2025.  It was also  noted that oral health was a priority issue for Healthwatch however, dentistry had not been included in the strategy due to the challenges of obtaining data on this issue.

RESOLVED: that consideration would be given to the availability of data on dentistry and oral health in the city and the inclusion of this topic in the JSNA and consideration for inclusion in the next HWBS strategy