Agenda item

Quarter One 2017/18 Performance Management Report

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Transformation and Partnerships that presented progress against the Council’s corporate performance framework for the Altogether Healthier priority theme for the first quarter of the 2017/18 financial year (for copy of report, see file of minutes).

 

The Corporate Scrutiny and Performance Manager presented the report.

 

Councillor Crathorne referred to smoking cessation and asked if people had just switched to e cigarettes rather than stopped smoking. The Corporate Scrutiny and Performance Manager advised that e-cigarettes are a new phenomenon and so the long-term effects of vaping may not fully understood. He advised that he would talk to Public Health colleagues to get a definitive answer on whether e-cigarettes are now seen as a legitimate part of an approach to smoking cessation and find out whether there is any research about the health effects of vaping.

 

Councillor Darkes referred to paragraph 16 of the report and the mortality rate for deaths related to drug misuse and the significant reduction in healthy life expectancy for the period 2014 to 2016 and if any action plans had been put into place. The Corporate Scrutiny and Performance Manager responded that the figures had just been released but he would speak to Public Health and report back.

 

Councillor Temple referred to Durham County Council’s performance always been worse than the rest of England but better than the North East and asked if there was a trend.  The Corporate Scrutiny and Performance Manager responded that the indicators were chosen by the authority but they could look at trends to see if there are any significant trends regarding comparison between Durham and the North East region.

 

Councillor Davinson sought clarification if suicides could be broken down into areas to see if there were links with deprivation and if they need to target areas. A question was also asked as to whether there was any early evidence to suggest that suicides have increased as a result of the government’s roll out of Universal Credit.

 

The Corporate Scrutiny and Performance Manager would look at the suicide figures to see if they could be broken down into areas.

 

Resolved:

That the report be noted.

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