Issue - meetings

The SBC Executive Director People (Adults) and the SBC Executive Place Managing Director presented the Priority Two, Integration, Health and Social Care Partnership Board update report.  They highlighted the following areas of the report:

·  This was the first Slough based Health and Care Plan (HCP).  It had been set up to provide oversight, strategic direction and co-ordinate commissioning intentions for the integration of health and social care services.

·  The Health and Social Care Partnership Board was a sub-group of the Wellbeing Board.

·  It was proposed that the Health and Social Care Partnership Board and the Slough Place Based Committee would work collaboratively by conducting their meetings at the same time, which would allow the two groups to transact their business together, while remaining independent entities. The HSCPB would retain its own terms of reference and membership, but be able to work more effectively with colleagues from the Slough Place Based Committee. The Terms of Reference of the HSCPB had been updated in line with these proposed changes.

·  In addition to this work, the HSCPB had been working to develop a Health and Care Plan which would seek to provide the detail of how the HSCPB board and the partner organisations that make up the board could deliver greater Integration between health and social care in Slough. The plan would steer the work of the HSCPB, and its member organisations, to deliver Priority Two: Integration, of the Slough Wellbeing Strategy.

·  The group would include a Health Inequalities Group which would be made up from the existing BAME group.

The Chair asked about the partnership working – the use of joint commissioning and pooled budgets, how would this work in practice and how would the views of partners, residents and lay members be taken account of?

HCP was a co-production network hence service users and family members would be designing, scrutinising the plan alongside the Board. Budgets had already been pooled in the form of the Better Care Fund, and any changes to the pooled budgets or joint working would require approval from the relevant Statutory Body, the CCG or the Council. 

A review report would be presented at the November meeting of the Board. 

Resolved – That the report be noted.