The Solihull Health and Wellbeing Board is the forum where democratically elected leaders and local clinical leadership work together to deliver health and care services based on the best evidence of local needs. It is also a space where other services can come together to improve health and wellbeing, such as housing, transport, economy and the environment.
Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, Health and Wellbeing Boards have a statutory responsibility to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and develop and implement a Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JLHWS).
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is how local authorities and Integrated Care Boards assess the current and future health, care and wellbeing needs of the local community.
The JSNA has highlighted the areas where we do well with regard to health and wellbeing; however it has shone a light on the areas that we need to focus on and improve.
Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy
The purpose of the Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JLHWS) is to map out what we have to do to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the borough. This refreshed Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024-2032 (JLHWS) outlines our key themes in the coming years. It has been produced taking into account the findings of the new Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (Story of Solihull), the Solihull Local Outcomes Framework, the ICS 10 Year Strategy and other needs assessments.
The JLHWS is an ‘overarching’ strategy, underpinned by the inequalities and prevention strategies. All three are intrinsically linked. By being more effective at preventative measures and addressing inequalities, we should see improvements in health and wellbeing across Solihull.
Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2024 – 2032
Health Inequalities Strategy
The Health Inequalities Strategy sets out our overall aim, guiding principles and priorities for reducing health inequalities across our Borough.
At its most fundamental, improving health inequalities requires improving the lives of those with the worst health outcomes, the fastest.
The priorities are built around three life-stages as well as recognising how the places where we are all born, grow, live, work and age can deeply influence our opportunities to be healthy.
The priorities have been reassessed to align more closely with those in the BSol ICS Health Inequalities Strategy.
Prevention Strategy
‘Prevention’ is about taking action to stop issues arising in the first place. ‘Early help’ is about providing support to ‘nip things in the bud’, providing help when an issue first emerges, to stop it getting worse and causing major problems later. Having the right support in place to prevent problems and crises escalating, is a far more positive experience for people who need help and support.
Solihull Local Outcomes Framework
The Solihull Local Outcomes Framework is how we measure progress against our strategies. It will be subject to regular updates and oversight.
The indicators show that Solihull often performs well when compared with England and the West Midlands region. However, we are now presenting data on our rankings with our CIPFA nearest neighbours and other local authorities with a similar socioeconomic deprivation level. The intention is to highlight areas where we may be performing well compared to England and the West Midlands but not be performing as expected against our most similar local authorities.