Agenda item

8.1

The Committee received a report of the Director of Business Planning and Partnerships, NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which introduced the CCGs commissioning intentions for 2014/16, set in the context of the Group’s 5 year ambitions.  The report was introduced by Tim Furness, Director of Business Planning and Partnerships, NHS Sheffield CCG.

8.2

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

·                The CCG’s first annual report was expected to be available before September 2014. 

·                The zero figures shown for savings on continuing health care costs for the three years from 2016/17 indicated that it was unlikely that further savings would be made during those years.

·                The voluntary sector were very much stakeholders in the CCG’s commissioning intentions.

·                The progress made by Right First Time was being built upon by the plans for integrated commissioning, and it was acknowledged that a stronger commissioning voice was required in the City’s partnerships for health and social care.  Discussions were taking place as to how Right First Time would continue and change as integrated commissioning arrangements took effect.

·                Training was very much a providers’ issue but the CCG’s plans  informed this process.  Work was being undertaken with the Foundation Trusts in Sheffield on where the CCG wanted to be in five years’ time and a report on this was presently in draft form.

8.3

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)       thanks Tim Furness for his contribution to the meeting;

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

(c)        strongly recommends that the attitude of suppliers and sub-contractors with regard to zero hours contracts and the living wage be taken into account when contracts were agreed.