The Place Director (Wirral) NHS Cheshire and Merseyside introduced the report which provided an update on the development of the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership Strategy and how Wirral as a “place” would contribute to this Strategy. It was reported that statutory guidance required each ICP (Integrated Care Partnership) to produce and publish an ICP Strategy by December 2022 and there would also be a requirement to publish a “five-year joint forward plan” by April 2023. This meant that the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership would need to sign off the strategy in December 2022 and the five-year joint forward plan in February 2023.

The Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership had agreed that the strategy should be developed from existing documents and that each Place should contribute to it with their local plans. The Wirral submission would be based upon the information contained in the Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2027 and Outcomes Framework, as well as drawing upon the information on the Wirral Intelligence Service website.

Following a discussion on measuring public health outcomes, it was confirmed that the Health and Care Partnership would be collating the public health performance indicators on a Cheshire and Merseyside footprint, but that these would still be considered at Place to ensure Wirral’s specific outcomes were considered.

Resolved – That

(1)  the proposal that the Wirral submission for the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership Strategy is based upon the information contained in the Wirral Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2027 and Outcomes Framework be supported, and that the Place Director coordinates the submission with the Director of Public Health.

(2)  a copy of the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership Strategy be received at a future meeting.