A first draft of a Health and Care Plan for Bradford District and Craven (Document “I”) is submitted to the Board for early discussion and feedback.

Recommended-

That the Board provides feedback on the draft Health and Care Plan for the Bradford District and Craven and a further draft of the plan be submitted to a future meeting.

                                                                        (James Drury – 07970 479491)

A first draft of a Health and Care Plan for Bradford District and Craven (Document “I”)  supported by a presentation was submitted to the Board for early discussion and feedback.

It was reported that this plan was a refresh of the existing place based transformation plan for care and health.  The plan was owned by the Health and Wellbeing Board and responsibility for its delivery was delegated to the Integration and Change Board (ICB).

The purpose of the plan was to ensure that the following were achieved.

• Better outcomes for the people of Bradford District and Craven; more people living longer in better health, and good health was enjoyed by everyone rather than being determined by where you live.
• Better services that met the needs of people; providing access to the highest quality interventions, delivered by teams with the best expertise, at the times people want, through the routes they preferred.
• Better use of the resources available; by reducing waste, arranging services to avoid delay and duplication, and working together to keep people well because this delivered better outcomes for people and was cost effective.

The plan was being reviewed now because the Health and Wellbeing Strategy had been refreshed.

Board Members were informed of the Our Say Counts engagement exercise which took place in Summer 2017 which aimed to hear the views of as many people as possible from all communities across Bradford District and Craven.  The independent local Healthwatch organisation led the conversation and produced a summary report which had influenced this plan.  Chapter 3 described what was learnt and how the learning was being used to guide changes.

Members commented on the following:

• Thanked Healthwatch for the Our Say Counts engagement exercise that was undertaken; would like to see this type of exercise undertaken more frequently.
• Any further feedback on the Health and Care Plan could be submitted to Sarah Hutchinson at Healthwatch.
• It was important to give feedback to participants where it was not possible to deliver a particular service/suggestion.
• Needed to ensure that there was no duplication; key performance indicators listed in the plan needed to be reviewed against those in the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, the District Plan and other key strategies.
• A number of GP practices had signed up to the primary home care model, the type of services that would be included would be clearer once the needs assessment that were underway for each area had been finalised.
• It was important that there was co-ordination between the various partners in achieving the aims of the plan.
• Needed a tracker to show how the KPI’s were being achieved.
• Needed resources to shift to early help and prevention.
• What was most concerning was the £210 million efficiency savings that needed to be made across the Health and Care Sector by 2021; the Board required a further report at the February 2018 meeting on the financial position and progress towards meeting those challenges.

·         It was reported that Bradford Council had been named one of the top 10 most productive Councils in England in an independent study.  The study looked for evidence that better outcomes had been achieved with less money.  It looked at productivity across a range of themes and service areas including adult and social care, children’s services, budgeting and overall performance.

• It was suggested to collate the sections in the plan relating to next steps into one area of the report.

It was reported that proposals to complete the plan included receiving HWB Members’ views today and afterwards individually; receiving further input from contributors up to 15 January; gaining input from Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 25 January; and finalising the plan by 31 January; communications plan to be ready for launch at the end of January and to report to the next Board meeting on 13 February.

Resolved-

(1)       That the feedback provided by the Board on the draft Health and Care Plan for the Bradford District and Craven be taken on board and a further draft of the plan be submitted to a future meeting.

(2)       That  the Key Performance Indicators listed in the plan are reviewed against those in the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, the District Plan and other key strategies and consolidated into a tracker for the Board.

(3)       That a finance report be presented to the Board in February.

Action:           Strategic Director, Health and Wellbeing