Agenda item

8.1

The Committee received a paper which provided a briefing on the establishment of a collaborative partnership between NHS Commissioners to lead a transformational change programme across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, North Derbyshire and Wakefield with a focus on hospital services.  The paper was presented by Will Cleary-Gray, Working Together Director, Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

8.2

Members made various comments and asked a number of questions, to which responses were provided as follows:-

·                The Ophthalmology Service was regarded as being unsustainable, with there being small patient numbers across multiple sites and a heavy reliance on locum cover. 

·                The programme brought the CCGs together to engender a different way of service provision.  This may lead to people needing to travel to get the right service.

·                There was a link with the National and Regional Commissions as the NHS was involved.

·                It may be possible to include the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in the programme, but the priorities which had been identified were pressing.  Further consideration could be given to this when the programme was reviewed.

·                It could not be said that all the initiatives, such as the Better Care Fund, knitted together, as the programme focused on acute hospitals, although attempts would be made to draw these together.

·                Training and workforce recruitment would be included as part of any programme review. 

8.3

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)       thanks Will Cleary-Gray for his contribution to the meeting;

(b)       notes the contents of the paper and responses to questions; and

(c)        requests the Policy and Improvement Officer to consider the inclusion of training and workforce recruitment in the Committee’s Work Programme.