Hampshire Health & Wellbeing Partnership Board

enabling a collaborative approach across Hampshire in order to deliver the health and wellbeing theme within Shaping our future together Hampshire’s Sustainable Community Strategy 2008-2018.

Purpose & Function

The Partnership Board exists to provide a platform for partners to work better together to deliver the necessary changes required to ensure that everyone in Hampshire are able to benefit from improvements in health and well-being.

The Board will

• Provide strong leadership and direction of the health and wellbeing agenda by agreeing priority outcomes for health and wellbeing
• Hold partners to account and promote action in order to develop and implement Healthier Hampshire - Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
• Operate as a thematic partnership within the context of the sustainable community strategy and the Local Area Agreement, being formally accountable to the Hampshire Senate.

Structure

Responsibilities

Taking a needs based approach:

To be well informed about the health and wellbeing needs of the people of Hampshire and take an evidence based approach to tackling the key issues that have negative impact.
To support the Director of Adult Services and the Director of Public Health in discharging their responsibility to publish a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. Use the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment to inform the priorities of the Strategy and develop the work programme of the Board.

Strategic development:

To develop and ensure the implementation of an agreed Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Hampshire that tackles inequality and disadvantage and supports partners to discharge their statutory responsibility for promoting social inclusion and wellbeing.

Performance monitoring

To monitor and review performance delivery of health and wellbeing improvements and outcomes.

To be accountable for the overall delivery and strategic performance management of health and wellbeing elements of Theme F of the Local Area Agreement (LAA). To report progress against LAA targets to the LAA Executive Group and implementation of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy to the Senate.

Responsible to ensure

Active engagement of the Partnership Board in the wider Sustainable Community Strategy in order to extend the reach of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy by ensuring strategic alignment with other strategies and plans.

Wide engagement of partners throughout the partnership structure by ensuring involvement in consultations, conferences, good practice events, and Task and Finish Groups

Shaping, directing and evaluating the work of associated Task and Finish Groups.

Ensure equalities underpins the work of the partnership and that all improvements deliver equality of access, outcome, participation and service experience.

Core Processes

Meetings of the Partnership Board will be held quarterly. They will be chaired by the Executive Member for Adult Services and the Chair of Hampshire Primary Care Trust. The lead officer for the Partnership will be the Senior Project Manager (Partnerships) and meetings will be serviced through the Adult Services Business Manager.

The Partnership Board will share information about the progress made through the a website, annual conference and report.

Membership

Joint Chairs	Executive Member for Hampshire County Council Adult Services Chair of NHS Hampshire
Health and Wellbeing District/Borough	Representatives from each district health and wellbeing boards/groups
Thematic Partnerships	Children’s Trust/ Children and Young Peoples Health and Wellbeing Crime and Disorder Reduction
Lay/Advisory Members	Hampshire Community Action Service User/ Patient representative Service Provider Carer representative
In attendance	CEO NHS Hampshire Director of Adult Services Director of Public Health
Partnership support	Senior Project Manager Business Manager Directors Office