Agenda item

Quarter 2 2019/20 Performance Management report

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report from the Corporate Director of Resources which presented progress towards achieving key outcomes of the Council’s corporate performance framework aligned to the Adults, Wellbeing and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (for copy see file of Minutes).

 

The Strategy Team Leader informed the committee that following consultation a shared vision for the County had been developed that was structured around three externally focused ambitions which were:

 

·        More and better jobs

·        Long and independent lives

·        Connected communities

 

She noted that work progressed around the ambitions with the stop smoking service that had awarded a contract for commissioning to ABC Health from 1 April 2020 that would run for three years. 

 

A focus group had been established within Public Health to work with pregnant women who smoked or had previously smoked to see what prevented them from giving up. She added that this would give an insight into the journey of pregnant women who smoked.  She announced that Durham and Darlington NHS had its smoke free status from 1 October 2019 to develop free tobacco dependency at the hospital.

 

Further work continued with AAP funding given to the Fit for Farming project to increase engagement within the farming community in partnership with public health and Upper Teesdale agricultural support services.  Additionally, the Join the Dots initiative ran by Macmillan had engaged with several cancer patients and the family and carers to provide varying levels of support.

 

Resolved

That the report and overall position and direction of travel in relation to quarter two performance and the actions taken to address areas of underperformance be noted.

 

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