A great unfulfilled potential of the 2012 health reforms was a health and wellbeing strategy agreed jointly by the local authority, CCG, Healthwatch and others on the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB). This was an opportunity to look long term not just at health and
Having considered what a strategy should contain, suggested that many Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWS’s) don’t seem to be to be properly strategic and speculated on why that might be, I now want to show what the essence of a strategy might look like.
Having suggested what a strategy should include and assessed a number of Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWS’s) and concluded they do not generally include what a strategy should, I now want to briefly consider why that might be. This is largely speculation, because
I have long thought that our local Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS), and most of the others I have seen, are not very strategic. They don’t do a good job of identifying a way in which ‘the whole system’ locally (including patients and the
I want, in a future blog, to look at what Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWS’s) could and should look like, and how they so often fail to achieve their potential. My feeling, for a long time [e.g. https://www.equwell.org.uk/what-a-joint-health-and-wellbeing-strategy-should-include/ from 2014], has been that many
My dad died in hospital in June. I suspect that his death wasn’t inevitable. He was 91, he had sepsis, which is difficult to spot, and it happened in the middle of the night. So it would be hard to blame the hospital for his
V – so, what’s been happening? There wasn’t a blog last month was there; have you been away? A – yes, three weeks in Australia. M – all right for some. V – anything to report then? A – not much. One of the committees
No meetings to report on this month, what with holidays. However, having been away, I’ve spent quite a lot of time catching up with health and wellbeing policy news. In fact too much time. It’s not really an obsession but I do feel an imperative
V – so, we were hearing last time that a big, round table meeting had decided to set up a Mental Health Action Group. You didn’t think that was much of a step forward because a similar group already existed. But at least you’d agreed
So, the latest iteration of STPs had to be submitted by 21st October and despite – or perhaps because of – the NHS England calls for secrecy, the controversy surrounding them continues to grow. How this all fits with progress on the Five Year Forward