Agenda item

Doncaster Place Plan Refresh

Minutes:

Dr Rupert Suckling gave the Board a presentation providing an update in the Doncaster Place Plan refresh.

 

In 2016, the Doncaster health and social care community published its first Place Plan, setting out the ambitions of the partnership over the next 5 years to 2022. It was the beginning of the journey and much had happened since then. Plans need to flex and change as the Council learn more together and understand the challenges faced as a place and the opportunities that brings. The refresh of the Place Plan therefore builds on the original and takes forward the original ambitions.

 

The Board were advised that a new four layer model had been developed and the Doncaster Integrated Care Partnership understands that to start well, age well and indeed for all of us to live well, all four layers of the new model need to be connected and operate together; with as much as possible delivered in local neighbourhoods.

 

It was reported that over the last 18 months, a series of communications and engagement activities have and continue to take place to enable co-production, development and evaluation of health and care services in Doncaster.

 

Discussion took place on the 3 new areas of opportunity. It was reported that the Integrated Care Partnership had established a Strategic Workforce and Education Committee (SWEC) to lead on the planning and development of the collective workforce, ensuring that there is capacity and capability to deliver more care out of hospital and adopt new care models focused on early help, prevention, anticipatory care and whole family, strength-based, person-centred approach.

 

Members considered the impact of the digital strategy and the Council vision for digital services to empower Doncaster people to maximise their own health and wellbeing and to enable Council teams to deliver high quality integrated care. It was suggested, that from a business intelligence view, it would be beneficial for John Briggs to share network profiles with the Board and bring the information to the workshop on 5th December.

 

It was noted that if there were concerns regarding the Integrated Care System, the Doncaster Place Plan was the tool to counter balance that and will also provide the public accountability. It was asked whether the Board could decide a clear connection between them. Members were advised that this would be picked up within the outcomes framework report. However, it was noted that, there would be outcomes that the place plan should be addressing. It was advised that whilst there were not many targets identified within the plan, the Council and its partners were moving in the right direction.

 

The Chair asked members their views on how residents experience pathology. It was advised that it takes longer to receive test results, which has a knock on effect on commencing any treatment that is required. Members were advised that this was a significant challenge for the place plan and it was acknowledged that there was a need to prioritise work. It was noted that within nursing, the vacancy rate was 5%, which was considered as performing reasonably well. However, there were areas of specialism where there were particular challenges.

 

The Board noted that it was important for partners to know what the place plan means to them and be able to communicate it in a simple way. It was, advised that there was a significant amount of work being carried out on localities and demand management and it was suggested that discussions continue at the workshop on the 5th December.

 

          RESOLVED that the Board noted the Place Plan refresh and supported       the Direction of Travel

 

 

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