Issue - meetings

Nathan Atkinson, Assistant Director Strategic Commissioning, RMBC and Keely Firth, Chief Finance Officer, RCCG to present (report attached)

Keely Firth, Rotherham CCG, and Nathan Atkinson, Assistant Director Strategic Commissioning, presented a progress report of the Adult Care Development Programme and the Better Care Fund (BCF) as of Quarter 3 December, 2016:-

Nathan Atkinson reported on the Adult Care Development Programme - the overarching strategy to transform Adult Care highlighting the following:-

-          Community Catalysts, a not-for-profit organisation, had recently won a tender to provide expertise as to the development of community groups to deliver preventative services and supplement the wider Adult Care offer

-          The Village integrated health and care locality pilot had been running since July, 2016.  A Key Performance Indicator suite was being developed to enable practical comparisons to be made with other localities in terms of performance and impact.

-          Training commissioned to support operational workers with understanding and delivery of a strengths based approach to assessment.

-          Formal consultation on the future offer in Rotherham for people with a Learning Disability.

-          All eighty-four customers attending Charnwood Day Centre had been reviewed and moved to more appropriate support.

-          Current offer by the Shared Lives Team had been reviewed with a view to the development of an effective expansion plan based on national best practice.

-          Community Opportunity Pathway Programme continued to work with ten customers and their families.  Support for the programme ended in December, 2016.

Keely reported that the Better Care Fund was made up funding from the CCG (approximately £20M) and the Local Authority (approximately £4M).  There were thirty-six schemes which had now been categorised into six key objectives of the Fund.

During 2016/17 a review had been carried out of all the services for strategic relevance, whether there were strong robust contracts in place and ways of measuring success and the outcomes.

Seven of the eight national conditions were being fully met.  The remaining condition was partly met;  better data sharing between Health and Social Care based on the NHS number (fully met) and better data sharing including whether Adult Care could ensure that patients/service users had clarity about how data about them used, who may have access and how they could exercise their legal rights (partly met).

What had the Fund done for the people of Rotherham:-

-                   Defined, improved and increased the joint working with Social Care.

-                   Mental Health Liaison Services introduced where Mental Health Workers from the local Mental Health Trust now worked in the front end of the Hospital allowing people accessing A&E Services to have intervention before admission and if admitted, through the Mental Health Liaison Services, they could be targeted much faster.

-                   Social Prescribing – excellent feedback and had given real benefits to those in receipt.  It had now been extended for Mental Health Services.

-                   Increase in the number of community beds which enabled patients to be discharged safely from Hospital where appropriate and had meant delayed transfers of care was less of an issue.

-                   Increase in the number of people that accessed Personal Health budgets.

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