Agenda item

7.1

The Committee received a joint report of Councillor Chris Peace (Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care) and Dr. Tim Moorhead (Chair of the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)) which gave an update on the work of the Accountable Care Partnership (ACP).

7.2

Also present for this item were Becky Joyce (Accountable Care Partnership) and Kevan Taylor (Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust).

7.3

Councillor Chris Peace referred to the recently announced NHS Long Term Plan and stated that the Partnership was focused on how Sheffield fits into that plan. She made reference to Sheffield’s Health and Wellbeing Board which was a partnership between Sheffield City Council, the NHS and a range of partners in the City with the aim of delivering a single approach to improving the health and wellbeing of Sheffield residents. 

7.4

Becky Joyce referred to the seven guiding principles for the forthcoming Green Paper on Social Care, which the Government has said will ensure that the care and support system is sustainable in the long term, and the context of these principles would help in developing “Shaping Sheffield: The Plan”, a collected and shared ambition of patients, clinicians and organisations, a draft of which Plan should be available by April, 2019.

7.5

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

·                     Sheffield is already one of the leading areas in the country for detection and diagnosis of dementia.  A Dementia Strategy Implementation Group has been established under the governance of the Accountable Care Partnership which is led jointly by senior responsible officers from both the CCG and Sheffield City Council.  Patients were able to access specialist support quicker.

·                     Part of the Neighbourhood model was trying to encourage the employment of multi-disciplinary teams.  Different areas require different needs.  Some people visit their GPs for reasons other than medical issues, therefore the voluntary and community sector can play a vital role and make a difference in the success of the model. 

·                     In response to a question regarding the elderly and the use of the Nomad system, Members were informed that pharmacists, not GPs, were responsible for these, which were pre-packed medications that are delivered weekly by the pharmacy, after they had obtained the prescriptions from GPs. They are available for elderly patients on complicated drug regimens or people with memory problems, but not suitable for those on prescriptions that change regularly.

·                     The ACP had looked at the system network from Wigan Council and felt that they could learn from it.  However, what works in one part of the country would not necessarily work in Sheffield, and it would have to be tailor made to fit the city.

·                     A role for the voluntary sector needed to be factored into Neighbourhoods, but whilst they have access to communities, they don’t always have the workforce and this was something that needed to be supported and developed.

7.6

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)       notes the information reported and thanks those attending for their contribution to the meeting; and

(b)       as part of the six monthly updates on the Accountable Care Partnership, agrees to consider progress, performance and emerging issues; and will consider adding further issues to its work programme, as appropriate.