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Fiona Field, Director of Governance and Strategic Planning, Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust will update the Committee on the current position with the Strategic Plan – presentation attached.

Fiona Field Director of Governance and Strategic Planning, Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust (PCT), presented the Commissioning Strategy 2009 – 16, Refresh of Terminology Document.  The document was a draft but was submitted for Members’ comments.

The PCT’s ambition as described in the document was “To work with others to achieve sustainable improvements in health and wellbeing of the population and to reduce inequalities in health”.  There were 4 Visions:

• Healthy Communities;
• Accessible Healthcare;
• Better Healthcare;
• High Performing Trust.

For each Vision, a number of Success Outcomes were listed together with Accountable Measures.  This was expanded upon in sections headed “A step change to…” whereby the Trust outlined “What We Did” (actions undertaken), “What you think” (stakeholder feedback and images of performance activity) and “How we performed” (accountable measures of performance).

During discussion of the Document the following issues were raised:

      That the PCT target for ensuring the numbers of stroke patients who received physiotherapy assessment within 72 hours was to ensure that the national target was consistently met;  there were enough trained physiotherapists to deliver the service following a national drive a few years ago;

      Current issues for the PCT included Chlamydia screening rates, Teenage Pregnancy rates and the 4 hour waiting time for Accident and Emergency, there were also continuing issues around the 18 week target for hospital treatment and the impact of the new proposals announced in the Queen’s Speech. 

      Members noted new proposals in relation to Sex and Relationship Education in schools. 

RESOLVED:  That the report be noted.