Issue - meetings

Video and presentation.

It was reported that health partners have been successful in being shortlisted, following a nationwide call for “Pioneer Bids” from the Department of Health. In May 2013 the Department of Health had invited expressions of interest for Health and Social Care ‘Pioneers’. The intention was that 10 ‘Pioneer Sites’ would be selected as a means of rewarding change at scale and pace, from which the rest of the country could benefit. The DoH were looking for Pioneers that would work across the whole of their local health, public health and social care systems and alongside other local authority departments and voluntary organisations, as necessary, to achieve and demonstrate the scale of change that was required.

Responding to this call, Cheshire East Council, Cheshire West and Chester Council and the four Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Groups had worked together to propose a model for Cheshire-wide integration of Health and Social care.

The partners had been successful in being short-listed and in the previous week, a team including representatives from the CCGs and the Council’s Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning had visited the Department of Health, in London, to be interviewed as part of the Pioneer Bid. 

Simon Whitehouse gave a short presentation, summarising the bid and showed the film which had been included in the bid presentation, in London.

Final results would be known by the beginning of November.

The Chairman thanked Simon Whitehouse for his presentation and also thanked Councillor Brenda Dowding, Adult Social Care and Health Portfolio Holder for Cheshire West and Chester Council, who was present at the meeting, for her Council’s contribution to the bid.