Agenda item

Public Health have provided the enclosed papers, giving an overview of the priorities and strategy for the year, with a particular focus on:

·  Suicide Plan

·  Sexual Health Services

·  Drug services

Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing,  and consultants presented the reports enclosed with the agenda and addressed the following issues: 

·  Waits for Sexual Health clinic appointments

·  Return rate for online/ home testing kits

·  PREP trails ( HIV prophylactic)

·  Combined substance & sexual health commissioned services for young people

·  Waiting list and process to meet demand for residential treatment for alcohol & drug misuse  services

·  Communities that are most affected by high levels of suicide, teenage pregnancy, STI and alcohol & drug misuse and how does that link to deprivation and regeneration (report to follow)

·  The proportion of services that are used and accessed by Southwark residents and local services

·  TB - is it rising , where is it most prevalent and reasons (report to follow)

·  Social regeneration and plans to embed health & wellbeing in regeneration master plans (e.g. Peckham, Old Kent Road & Canada Water), high street shops, and through warm dry housing.

·  A challenge on the lack of ambition of a suicide rate reduction target of 10% and also reductions to self harm (from a resident) and rational from officers.

RESOLVED

Officers will return with a report on:

i)  socio economic data ( including ethnicity) and prevalence rates of suicide, teenage conception, STI and alcohol & drug misuse

ii)  TB – is this rising, where is this prevalent and the reasons.