Members considered a report on the steps being taken locally to ‘connect care’ within Cheshire East across the health and social care landscape, and to progress efforts to commission, assess and deliver care together where it made sense for individuals.
Over the next 20 years the percentage of the population over 85 years old in England was forecast to double. Consequently, there would be many more people with complex health and care needs. Alongside the severe financial constraints facing the economy, including pending reforms for the future funding of adult social care, there was a growing consensus that health and social care systems needed to deliver improved value, through simultaneously improving outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
In the Eastern Cheshire Partnership Board, progress had been made in formally establishing an Integrated Care Programme Board. The Memorandum of Understanding for the Integrated Care Programme was attached at Appendix 1 to the report.
Within the South and Vale Royal Partnership Board there was a similar dialogue underway examining what steps needed to be taken to drive forward integration and what form it should take. Further details were set out in the report.
RESOLVED
That
(1) the progress in securing ongoing commitment to integrated care by partner organisations be noted and endorsed; and
(2) the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding for the Integrated Care Programme with Eastern Cheshire Partnership Board be supported.