Cabinet considered a progress report on work underway to address the opportunities presented by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 which had given Local Authorities and reformed NHS organisations leverage to improve the outcomes for those individuals who used health and social care services through a better deployment of resources.
The legislation enabled local organisations to improve their collaborative work across the health and social care arena through a more focussed approach to commissioning critically with local practitioners, specifically General Practitioners, who now had a strengthened role at a local level in determining the deployment of health resources.
RESOLVED
That Cabinet
1. notes the work underway locally working collaboratively with partners including, CWAC, 4 Clinical Commissioning Groups, the Acute Trusts and NHS England and specifically the effort to become a Pioneer Site for integration across Cheshire;
2. supports the ongoing work of the Caring Together Programme to redesign models of care and gives delegated authority to the Executive Director for Strategic Commissioning to jointly commission health and social care services that secure improved outcomes for residents, returning to Cabinet as appropriate when Key Decisions are required;
3. endorses the ongoing work with the South and Vale Royal Partnership Board and again gives delegated authority to the Executive Director Strategic Commissioning to jointly commission health and social care services that secure improved outcomes for residents, returning to Cabinet as appropriate when Key Decisions are required;
4. supports the development of Member Development sessions to more fully understand the reshaping of the health and social care landscape within the sub-region;
5. notes the financial strain associated with the current arrangements for providing health and social care services, the efforts being taken to reshape services to be safe and sustainable into the longer term, and the shifts in resourcing announced in the recent Spending Round to support integration in 2014/15; and
6. gives delegated authority to the Executive Director, Strategic Commissioning, in consultation with the Lead Member for Adults and Health, to consider additional investments in temporary capacity to secure key work streams, funded from the Cost of Investment Budget as appropriate.