Health and Well Being Key Area of Focus - Performance

Cabinet Member with Responsibility

• Councillor Marcus Hart, Cabinet Member for Health and Well Being.

Director with Responsibility

• Eddie Clarke, Director of Adult and Community Services.
• Richard Harling, Joint Director of Public Health.

Background

We believe that health and well-being is of the highest importance to people in Worcestershire. This means supporting people to live healthy lives and ensuring that health and social care services are of high quality and value for money. With the NHS and public health reforms contained in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the Council will take on new statutory duties from April 2013 for improving and protecting health, as well as for ensuring integrated and sustainable health and social care services.

We recognise that a number of the indicators are long term and outside of the direct control of the Council, but we are measuring progress against them because of their importance to local residents. 

We judge our progress by measuring:

• Mortality rate of children and young people
• The difference in life expectancy across Worcestershire.
• The percentage of residents aged 65 or more receiving a social care service
• The percentage of residents aged 65 or more receiving a social care service living independently.

Performance and activity in 2012/13

Improve mortality rate of children and young people measure - This measure is calculated by the number of deaths aged 1-17 years per 1,000 population aged 1-17 years. The data is analysed using statistical process control (SPC). The latest available data is for 2011 and this showed that performance was well below the long-term average and is on target..

Reduce difference in life expectancy across Worcestershire - The indicator measures the difference between life expectancy in the ten wards with the lowest life expectancy in any given period and the rest of Worcestershire. Improvement has been made against the baseline figure (2007-2009 data) although the change is not statistically significant and the target has not been reached yet. However, please note that these sort of public health statistics only see significant movement over longer periods of time..

Reduce the percentage of residents aged 65 or more receiving a social care service - The target against this measure is set so that the number of older people receiving a social care service stays the same against a background where the number of older people is increasing. The latest performance data available shows that performance is on target..

Increase the percentage of residents aged 65 or more receiving a social care service living independently - The target against this measure is set to keep the ratio of older people receiving social care services at home or living in a residential/nursing home at the same level. The latest available performance is below target, reflecting a reduction in use of some less intensive community based services, and increasing pressures for more intensive services including residential/nursing care. Strategic commissioning work is designed to address this area including implementation of Ageing Well and Extracare strategies.

• Health and Well-Being Summary of Performance Balanced Scorecard Corporate Level (PDF 19 KB) 

This page was last reviewed 13 March 2013 at 11:15.
The page is next due for review 9 September 2014.