Agenda item

17.1

The report which explored opportunities for Board Members and their organisations to work together differently, to collectively address the challenges faced in delivering the new Sheffield Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Strategy to address health inequalities, was presented by Gavin Boyle (Chief Executive, NHS South Yorkshire ICB, and Emma Latimer (Executive Director, Place [Sheffield], NHS South Yorkshire ICB).  A presentation had also been published with the agenda, which provided background information.

17.2

Gavin Boyle stated that there was a need to align with the NHS 10-year plan and Lord Darzi’s independent investigation of the NHS, whilst maintaining the Board’s aims of saying no to high cost/ low impact interventions and focussing resources on prevention.  Members noted that this was challenging and involved cultural change in the NHS, but these changes were beginning to be made by organisations represented on the Board, and consideration given to how funding needed to be repositioned, in particular to benefit areas of high deprivation.

17.3

Members also mentioned that during the two years of the current ICB arrangements, traditionally strong partnerships had been strengthened further, and the four Places were working to take decisions as close to the people affected by them as possible.  Gavin Boyle highlighted the Glassworks development in Barnsley, which had sited a diagnostic centre in a shopping centre, as an example of this, and advised that a similar project was being considered in Doncaster.

17.4

A request was made for consideration of how easy it was for people to contact the ICB, as Healthwatch had been told that this was difficult.  Gavin Boyle advised that this could be looked in to as it was important that the ICB did not become disconnected.  Concerns were also raised that resources and capacity for the engagement and involvement of patients and communities in services and decision-making had been centralised to South Yorkshire level, when this is something much better done at local level. Gavin Boyle said that he would look into this.

17.5

In response to a question regarding the possibility of the funding of voluntary and community organisations by the ICB, Gavin Boyle agreed that allocating a portion of the ICB budget to the sector should be considered, and advised that such organisations should be seen as partners of the ICB, and voluntary organisations should be funded in a more intelligent way to make them more secure.

17.6

RESOLVED: That the Sheffield Health and Wellbeing Board:

Will explore as partners, the opportunities to work together to address the challenges faced in delivering the new Sheffield Health and Wellbeing Strategy and developing the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership.