Agenda item

The Board considered a report of the Director of Business Planning and Partnerships, NHS Sheffield CCG and the Director of Commissioning, Sheffield City Council, concerning Health and Wellbeing Plans for Sheffield in 2015/16 and the Plans from Sheffield City Council and NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group in particular. Tim Furness, Director of Business Planning and Partnerships, NHS Sheffield CCG presented the report noting that the CCG had previously published a plan for the period 2014/16 and stating that the plan comprised both continuing and new priorities. Among the new priorities was a review of Urgent Care leading to a new Urgent Care Strategy and the development of a view as to what health and social care should look like in five years’ time. The forthcoming Engagement Event in May 2015 would be the starting point for such discussions.

The Board was asked to consider the following questions:

·         Does the Health and Wellbeing Board support the priorities proposed by the commissioning organisations?

·         Are there areas for greater joint working between the organisations on the Health and Wellbeing Board (and others) in 2015/16?

·         What role is there for Healthwatch Sheffield over the coming year in assisting with the implementation of these plans?

Members of the Board discussed the issues raised by the report, a summary of which follows:

The next Board Strategy meeting would consider key issues which the Board should be concentrating upon, including further work with providers of health and social care and exploring what health and social care should look like in the future. In relation to devolution, the Board needed to be prepared to make a bid to the Secretary of State in the next Parliament as regards how health and social care should be governed in Sheffield and to present a preferred solution to Government.

It was noted that the CCG would bring forward a discussion concerning devolution. The breadth of the report now submitted was also welcomed.

There was a role for Healthwatch Sheffield in the implementation of the Health and Wellbeing Plans and this would be a welcome discussion at a future Strategy Meeting.

Resolved: that:-

(1)  the Health and Wellbeing Board supports and endorses the commissioning plans set out in the report now submitted;

(2)  Board Members and the Board’s organisations commit to working together in an integrated way over the coming year; and

(3)  The next Strategy meeting of the Board considers the following questions in depth:

(i)    Are there areas for greater joint working between the organisations on the Health and Wellbeing Board (and others) in 2015/16?

(ii)  What role is there for Healthwatch Sheffield over the coming year in assisting with the implementation of these plans?