Agenda item

The meeting considered a report giving an update on excess winter deaths in Barnsley and setting out proposals for a system wide coordinated action plan to tackle the issue for 2018/19.  The action plan included detailed targeted programmes to impact on excess winter deaths, including addressing fuel poverty and protecting vulnerable groups.

The meeting noted the need to link this activity to wider winter planning within the NHS to ensure that the full range of issues were addressed and appropriate connections made.  The meeting noted the proposal to devise a revised action plan for 2018/19 by September and it was suggested that this might be need to be done earlier in the year if it was to have an impact over next winter.

RESOLVED:-

(i)        that the content of the report be noted and the proposed action plan and recommendations be approved; and

(ii)       that the need for the action plan for 2018/19 to be finalised sooner than September 2018 if it was to have an impact on excess winter deaths over the next winter be acknowledged.