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The Director of Public Health presented the report with support from the Assistant Director, Consultant in Public Health which provided an overview of the work undertaken on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment “JSNA” programme over the past year and outlined some of the work prioritised as part of the 2024/2025 programme. Findings from an overarching annual assessment of key population health metrics were presented along with plans describing how this annual statistical summary will be enhanced. It was explained that the JSNA has been in place in Wirral for a number of years and it consisted of in depth strategic needs assessments and community research and a suite of interactive tools on the website so that the end user could interrogate the data systems and self-serve. It was highlighted that the website had been improved in response to feedback and the governance of the JSNA process had been improved through the Health and Wellbeing Strategy Implementation Group. Work had been done to expand the capacity for community research to develop a qualitative research toolkit to make the most of all the engagement with local residents and to provide a repository to capture that information. It was explained that the Marmot All Together Fairer Plan had been used to look at how to best address the social determinants of health and work had been done across Cheshire and Merseyside to develop some metrics to track progress. The report contained a comparative position for Wirral on the All Together Fairer beacon indicators and proposals for enhancing that with some locally defined indicators.

Members discussed the variation on the Wirral of male and female life expectancies and the ability to pull out information for different sectors of the population including people with disabilities. Members asked about barriers to active travel.

Members asked about the decrease in life expectancy and the reasons for this were discussed and scrutiny of the reasons for this was planned.

Resolved: That

1. the report be endorsed.
2. the ongoing JSNA programme as a collaborative, cross-system endeavour which provides the strategic intelligence to inform system-wide priority-setting and action to improve health and reduce inequalities be supported.