Issue - meetings

Shona McFarlane, Director of Health and Wellbeing, presented the draft work programme for the Board’s first year of operation. 

The Plan had been developed to address the challenges set out by the network of early implementers of Boards which had identified a number of challenges which Boards were facing.

The work programme was underpinned by a support and development plan which used the Good Governance Institutes Board Assurance Prompt toolkit to becoming an exemplar Board by December, 2012.  It set out the key actions that needed to be delivered in the first 12 months of the Board focusing on ensuring that it was fit for purpose and could deliver its core functions:-

-        Assess the needs of the population through the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

-        Agree and produce a Health and Wellbeing Strategy to address needs which commissioners would need to have regard of in developing commissioning plans for health care, social care and public health

-        Promote joint commissioning

-        Promote integrated provision, joining up social care, public health and NHS services with wider local authority services

-        Involvement in the development of CCG commissioning plans

-        Provide advice to the NHS Commissioning Board in authorising CCGs

The report set out:-

-        Overarching crosscutting ‘impact’ performance measures

-        Work Programme Year 1 (October, 2011-September, 2012)

-        Development Excellence Plan

Purpose and Vision

Strategy

Leadership of the local healthcare economy

Governance

Information and intelligence

Expertise and skills

Discussion ensued on the document as follows:-

o       The team leading on the development of the HWB Strategy had asked for agreement to the attached Indicators for them to map the outcome measures and develop the Outcome-based Performance Indicator Framework that would support the Health and Wellbeing Strategy

o       The impact measures were the minimum Indicator Sets (as recommended by the Department of Health etc.) which would underpin the work of Boards nationally

o       The final draft of the JSNA was awaited which would then require discussion/approval of agencies to the amendments proposed

o       The indicator suite contained a requirement for safety incidents in hospital to be reported - it was noted that safety incidents were not just reported by hospitals

o       How could meaningful public engagement be undertaken – discussion required before June, 2012

o       The CCG would soon be presenting a Single Integrated Plan (SIP) which would address the health needs of the population.   In the meantime there should be a strategic co-ordinated approach and not organisations producing individual plans

o       The need for clarity of the relationship between the Board and LSP

Resolved:-  That the work programme and support and development plan be approved.