Venue: Albany Road Baptist Church, Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3NU

CARDIFF & VALE HEALTH AND WELLBEING BOARD

Tuesday, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 2015 at 11.00 a.m.

Venue: Albany Road Baptist Church, Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3NU

• The minutes of the meeting held on 19th May were agreed for accuracy.

• TN reported the smoking prevalence rate for Cardiff had reduced from 23% in 2012/13 to 21% in 2013/14, with the Vale of Glamorgan prevalence rate remaining at 18%. Overall smoking prevalence rate for C & V UHB currently stands at 20%.
• The percentage of treated smokers has increased to 0.9% (2013/2014) from 0.6% in the previous year - the WG Tier 1 target being 5%
• The number of combined contacts to SSW and the UHB Smoking Cessation Service have increased considerably
• The number of smokers setting a firm quit date (treated smokers) has increased compared to last year
• A Level 3 Community Pharmacy scheme was launched in 15 Community Pharmacies in Communities First areas of Cardiff and the Vale
• 43 CO monitors have been supplied to Community Midwives (funded by Wellbeing Activity Grant 2014/15)
• TN highlighted that although overall figures for smoking have dropped to 20% , in high areas of deprivation rates are as high as 34% and this is something that needs to be targeted next year
• Welsh Government’s Tier 1 target will continue to be a challenge although working at capturing GP data which, together with the Pharmacy Scheme, will help to achieve the 5% target
  

• ST highlighted areas of the draft C & V Physical Activity Action Plan 2015-2018 circulated prior to the meeting. The plan has been informed by evidence collated by the Public Health Wales Transforming Health Improvement Programme.
• A Food and Physical Activity Workshopis taking place on Monday, 28.9.15 working with partners to consider ways of implementing the plan
• The plan is divided into three main sections:-
  

• With the focus this year being explicitly on Communities First areas, ST encouraged everyone to send in their comments.
  Action: ST to circulate revised version of plan.
• Su Wade has already extended an invitation to MG and ST to attend the next Cluster Managers Meeting to discuss obesity work. Action: SW to forward date across for wider circulation.

• A very successful school holiday enrichment programme was piloted in 4 Cardiff Schools within 1 Cardiff Communities First area- in partnership with Cardiff Council, Cardiff Metropolitan University and the University of Northumbria. This is currently being evaluated with a report due out just before Christmas.
• Following an initial meeting to pull partners together, work continues on development of the Vale Food Charter Network and the Sensemaker programme. Will be looking for stories, experiences etc.
• Following the recent Healthy Retail Standards and Restaurants Criteria passed by theHealth Board, work now begins to implement and promote the work needed to ensure the 75/25 split in favour of healthy options in all the UHB outlets.

• SG gave some background to today’s meetingexplaining that the group has tasked itself with addressing population obesity across C & V and wanted to take a more innovative approach to this. Following an introduction to the idea of “open” meetings from Matt Wyatt and Esko Reinikainen where it was suggested that thesecan be an effective means for generating new and innovative ideas, the Board were persuaded by the methodology and wanted to explore it further. This is seen as a positive way forward – embracing the idea of going to where people are, rather than expecting people to come to us. Today is the first trial session for a facilitated open discussion on this subject and if successful, it was hoped to extend it across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan in the future.