Issue - meetings

Chris Edwards (Chief Officer, Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group), Louise Barnett (Chief Executive, Rotherham Foundation Trust) and Sharon Kemp (Chief Executive Rotherham Council), to present

Consideration was given to a report, presented by Chris Edwards, concerning the NHS Shared Planning Guidance, which asked every local health and care system in England to come together to create its own ambitious local plan for accelerating the implementation of the Five Year Forward View (5YFV). These blueprints, called Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), will be place-based, multi-year plans built around the needs of local populations.

To deliver STPs, local health and care systems have come together to form 44 footprints, which collectively cover the whole of England.  These geographic footprints are of a scale which should enable transformative change and the implementation of the ‘Five Year Forward View’ vision of better health and wellbeing; improved quality of care, and stronger NHS finance and efficiency by 2020/21.

It was noted that Rotherham sits within the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw footprint which is led by Sir Andrew Cash (Chief Executive of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals).

A copy of the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Plan was included with the agenda and supporting documents for this meeting.

A comment was made as to whether there was adequate reference (within the local plan) to preventative work.

Resolved:- (1) That the report be received and its contents noted.

(2) That the Health and Wellbeing Board places on record that it feels appropriately engaged in the local plan (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) process and notes that the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Plan has to be submitted to NHS England by the due date of Thursday 30^th June, 2016.