To receive any questions or petitions from members of the public
Minutes:
|
4.1 |
Mike Simpkin (Sheffield Save our NHS) referred the Committee to the circulated document which included a series of six questions relating to:- |
|
|
|
|
|
(a) The extent to which support for the Sheffield Plan (the Plan) would be taken as meaning acceptance of the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) as a whole. |
|
|
|
|
|
(b) The key elements of the financial strategy, when these would be made public and what were the detailed workforce implications of the Plan. |
|
|
|
|
|
(c) How an integrated QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) / CIP (Cost Improvement Programmes) programme would actually improve services. |
|
|
|
|
|
(d) How the public could be assured that the Plan was not simply drawing the health system more closely to the policing of an increasingly draconian benefits system and thus damaging and discrediting the NHS. |
|
|
|
|
|
(e) The public accountability in all of this. |
|
|
|
|
|
(f) The Council’s next steps in regard to this NHS planning process and the proposals for the integration of some commissioning functions and service provision. |
|
|
|
|
4.2 |
In response, Councillor Cate McDonald (Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care) indicated that this was not an agreed plan but more of a process, with the Council’s next steps being to consider and respond to it and indicate a set of priorities. She added that the Council did not support the STP, but was willing to work with the NHS to get the best outcomes for the people of Sheffield. |
|
|
|
|
4.3 |
In response to further comments from the Chair (Councillor Pat Midgley), Peter Moore (Director of Integration and Strategy, Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)) stated that it was difficult to disentangle the Plan from the STP and highlighted the importance of recognising the financial challenges. He added that Sheffield had a positive Plan and that there was a need to ensure the creation of a tension between what the STP could deliver and what Sheffield could contribute, with a view to making the relationship more explicit. Greg Fell (Director of Public Health) added that the business end of the process had to be owned by Sheffield. |
|
|
|
|
4.4 |
The Chair indicated that the remainder of Mr Simpkin’s questions would most likely be covered in the discussion in the following item, but he would be allowed to respond afterwards. |