Agenda item

The Board received a presentation by Jackie Pederson, Chief Officer of the DCCG, on the Doncaster Place Plan, which had been developed by the key leaders across health and social care in Doncaster during summer 2016.

The Place Plan was set in the context of the wider South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) and included a shared vision based around the development of an agreed set of design principles and a description of a future landscape for health and social care services in Doncaster.  A copy of the full Place Plan was included in the agenda pack for Members’ information.

Jackie summarised the key features of the Plan, which included:-

·         ‘The case for change’ – it was acknowledged that the Plan must be aimed at spending the ‘Doncaster pound’ more effectively, in light of ever increasing costs of delivering health and care services, in order to help close the financial gap.

·         Recognition of the need for health and social care services to come together to commission and provide services.  To deliver this, a neighbourhood approach had been developed, comprising four co-terminus neighbourhoods with the intention of further enabling services to be locally focused and tailored and to deliver care and support locally whenever appropriate.

·         A focus on a set of Cohorts that would maximise the value of collective action and transform Doncaster’s health and care system further, so that services could be delivered in the best place, demand for acute services could be reduced and clinical and financial sustainability achieved.

·         A balanced set of measures, which had been identified in order to monitor success in addressing the key challenges.

·         A new care model landscape, with the CCG/LA working together as commissioners to jointly commission integrated health and care services.

·         Proposals for engaging with staff and the public, including specific consultation on individual elements of the Place Plan as the new arrangements were developed.

With regard to the public consultation to be carried out on the Plan, Steve Shore stressed the importance of providing the relevant information in both a timely and honest way in light of the fact that inevitably there would be some cuts made to health services and it was vital that the consultation was open about this.

During discussion on the STP, the Chair reported that the STP was expected to be published on 11th November 2016.  It was agreed that Board members would need to have sight of the STP at the earliest opportunity following its publication, and the Chair pointed out that there might be a need to convene an extraordinary HWB meeting in December or January in order to discuss the STP in detail.  Mike Pinkerton highlighted the need to consider the role of the Health and Wellbeing Board in implementing the STP.

After the Chair had stressed that the major challenge would be in running the current and new systems in tandem to ensure a smooth transition, it was

RESOLVED to note the contents of the presentation and endorse the overall direction of travel within the Doncaster Place Plan.