Agenda item

To consider the recommendations, as set out in the reports.

Better Care Fund 2016/17 – Q4 report and end of year position

           Consideration was given to a report  relating to the Q4 report and end of year position. It was noted that Cheshire East Council had submitted the Q4 Better Care Fund(BCF) return on the 9^th of June 2017. The complete submission was appended to the report. The purpose of the report was to provide the Board  with a summary of the key points arising from the return and to provide an end of year report regarding the 2016/17 Better Care Fund in Cheshire East.

           The paper looked at the summary of the Q4 return, a detailed End of Year report for 2016/17 and evaluation of 2016/17 schemes, with next steps for 2017/18.

RESOLVED

1.     That the contents of the Q4 BCF report and the 2016/17 year end position be noted.

2.     That it be noted that, despite numerous challenges to the health and social care system locally, the BCF reporting of an unchanged position represents a positive outcome for Cheshire East.

3.     That the recommended next steps to improve performance, where needed, be supported.

Improved Better Care Fund (iBCF) 2017 to 2020 

Consideration was given to a report describing the areas of activity and the proposed expenditure for the additional grant money being received directly by Cheshire East Council in 2017/18 through the Improved BCF (iBCF) monies for 2017 to 2020. The background and context was detailed in section 5 of the report.

It identified a number of schemes and rationale of how they met the needs and demands of the local care and health economy, the national conditions applied to the grant and to collectively support the clinical commissioning groups and NHS Providers to implement the ‘High Impact Change Model,’ to manage more effective transfers of care between hospital and home.

           In considering the report, J Hawker acknowledged the Council’s support on a number of the schemes and stated that he would like to see collective working and improvements on all existing schemes to ensure that effective progress could be made.

           RESOLVED

     That the proposed schemes, as set out in paras 2.2 to 2.8 of the report, be agreed and endorsed, it being proposed that each scheme will have a more detailed business case produced that articulates the associated benefits and impacts of each scheme and that these will be approved and sanctioned through the existing Better Care Fund governance group.