Title: Gwent
Marmot Region Programme Update Paper
Paper sponsor:
Dr Sarah Aitken, Executive Director of Public
Health and Strategic Partnerships, ABUHB
Paper authors:
Richard Lewis, Principal Public Health Practitioner,
PHW
Stuart Bourne, Consultant in Public Health, ABUHB
Date: 29th September 2022
1. Introduction
1.0 At its meeting on 10th
March 2022, Gwent Public Services Board (PSB) formally agreed to become a
‘Marmot Region’, and to work in partnership with the Institute of Health Equity
(IHE) to address the social determinants of health.
1.1 The purpose of this paper is
to up-date Gwent PSB partners on progress in establishing the Gwent: Marmot Region
programme since the meeting of the PSB on 30th June 2022.
2. Background
2.0 Under the leadership of the Director of Public Health (DPH), Aneurin
Bevan Gwent Public Health Team (ABGPHT) is co-ordinating the implementation of
the Gwent: Marmot Region proposal. The
proposal paper agreed by the PSB on 10th March 2022 can be accessed
here: https://www.gwentpsb.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/03-Proposal-Gwent-Becoming-a-Marmot-Region.pdf
2.1 Development of the implementation plan is being undertaken in
consultation with Gwent PSB members, Gwent: Marmot Region Programme Leadership
Group, Gwent Strategic Well-being Action Group (GSWAG), Gwent PSB Engagement
Group and PSB Secretariat.
2.2 On 7th
December 2021, the PSB agreed to adopt the six Marmot Principles as the
framework for action to reduce health inequalities across Gwent as part of the
forthcoming five-year Gwent PSB Well-being Plan. On 30th June 2022, the
PSB agreed to include the two additional Marmot Principles into the framework. The
full eight Marmot Principles are:
1.
Give every
child the best start in life
2. Enable all children, young people and
adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives
3. Create fair employment and good work
for all
4. Ensure a healthy standard of living for
all
5. Create and develop healthy and
sustainable places and communities
6. Strengthen the role and impact of ill-health
prevention
7. Tackle racism, discrimination and
their outcomes
8. Pursue environmental sustainability
and health equity together
2.3 The framework for the Gwent Well-being Plan
is on the 29th September PSB agenda for approval separately.
2.4 Also on 30th June 2022, the PSB agreed to the
establishment and terms of reference for a Gwent: Marmot Region Programme
Leadership Group, and the principles for
the Gwent: Marmot Region communications and engagement strategy.
3. Gwent: Marmot Region Programme Leadership Group
3.0 The Group has
formed and held its first meeting on 1st August 2022, when it
discussed partner agencies’ commitment to Gwent becoming a Marmot Region. At
this meeting a terms of reference, timeline, risk register and communications
plan were discussed. It was also agreed to reach out to the wider PSB
leadership to check the ambition for this work across all Gwent partners. The
next meeting is scheduled for 27th September 2022.
4. Gwent Marmot
Region Programme Governance
4.0 The (fixed-term) programme
team within ABGPHT has now been recruited:
· Programme Manager: Anna Pennington - started 15th August
· Senior Public Health Practitioner: Caroline McDonnell - started 19th
September
· Public Health Practitioner: Liam Williams - started 19th
September
4.1 Richard Lewis, Principal
Public Health Practitioner, is supporting the team during the handover period.
4.2 The programme team are up-dating the core
programme management documents, including the timeline, communications and
engagement plan, and risk register, for the next meeting of the Gwent: Marmot Region Programme
Leadership Group.
5. Gwent:
Marmot Region stakeholder workshops
5.0 The
programme team are working with the Chair of the PSB’s Engagement Group to
identify dates and venues, and build the invitation list to support the
stakeholder workshop events in Gwent (in November 2022). Led by the IHE, one
workshop will be delivered in each local authority area, together with one Gwent-level
virtual session. Further details will follow shortly.
6.
Gwent Marmot Region branding for communications
6.0 As part of the communications and engagement
strategy, branding is being developed to visualise and communicate Gwent PSB’s strategic
intent on becoming a Marmot Region. ABUHB’s Strategic Head of Communications,
Population Health has commissioned a creative agency to deliver this work, and
will present options for consideration to the next meeting of the Gwent: Marmot Region Programme Leadership Group.
7.
Recommendations
Gwent PSB is asked:
7.0 To NOTE the
series of Gwent: Marmot Region up-dates in this paper:
· Programme Leadership Group
(Section 3)
· Programme Governance (Section 4)
· Stakeholder workshops (Section 5)
· Branding (Section 6)