Issue - meetings

Claire Smith (Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group) and Nathan Atkinson (Assistant Director of Adults Commissioning, Rotherham MBC) to present

Consideration was given to a report of the Head of Long Term Conditions and Urgent Care (Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group) and the Assistant Director of Commissioning (RMBC Adult Social Care) containing an overview of the Better Care Fund Plan 2016/17 which would be submitted to NHS England.

The report stated that, in early March 2016, NHS England had issued the Better Care Fund planning requirements for 2016/17, which included the completion of a financial planning template and a narrative plan with a comprehensive set of Key Lines of Enquiry. There are eight conditions, which local areas have to meet through the planning process, in order to access funding which is included in the Key Lines of Enquiry. These eight conditions were listed within the submitted report.

The Better Care Fund Plan had been jointly developed between the Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and the Borough Council and is well aligned to the priorities within the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2015-18, the CCG Commissioning 2015-19, CCG Operating Plans 2016-17 and Provider Plans. 

The Health and Wellbeing Board noted that Rotherham’s Better Care Fund Plan 2016/17 had been cited as an exemplar Plan within the Yorkshire and Humberside region. The Board thanked the team of officers for their work.

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

(2) That the Better Care Fund Plan 2016/17, as now submitted, be approved and submitted to NHS England.