Local democracy

Agenda item

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) FOR THE WEST YORKSHIRE AND HARROGATE HEALTH AND CARE PARTNERSHIP

The Strategic Director, Health and Wellbeing will submit Document “C” which seeks the Board’s approval for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership.

 

Individual partner organisations in Bradford District and Craven, and across West Yorkshire and Harrogate as a whole, are also being asked to approve the MoU. Other local partner organisations that are anticipated to sign the MoU are;

·         Airedale Wharfedale and Craven NHS CCG

·         Bradford City NHS CCG

·         Bradford Districts NHS CCG

·         Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

·         Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

·         Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·         Craven District Council

·         North Yorkshire County Council

 

Recommended-

 

That the draft Memorandum of Understanding for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership be approved.

 

                                                            (James Drury – 01274 431057)

 

 

Minutes:

The Strategic Director, Health and Wellbeing submitted Document “C” which sought the Board’s approval for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership.

 

It was reported that individual partner organisations in Bradford District and Craven, and across West Yorkshire and Harrogate as a whole, were also being asked to approve the MoU. Other local partner organisations that were anticipated to sign the MoU were;

·         Airedale Wharfedale and Craven NHS CCG

·         Bradford City NHS CCG

·         Bradford Districts NHS CCG

·         Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

·         Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

·         Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·         Craven District Council

·         North Yorkshire County Council

 

Members were informed that the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership had already begun to make an impact such as the Cancer Alliance Board had attracted £12.6m in funding to transform cancer diagnostics; in Bradford the Cancer Alliance had invested in additional support to tackle smoking and to enable more people to be screened and receive earlier diagnostic testing to improve lung cancer outcomes;  developed a strategic case for change for stroke from prevention to after care; established a Joint Committee of CCGs; secured £31m in transformation funding for A&E, cancer, mental health, learning disabilities and diabetes, and £38m capital from the Autumn 2017 budget for CAMHS, pathology, telemedicine, and digital imaging.

 

It was reported that the MoU was an agreement between the WY&H health and care partners.  It set out the details of the commitment to work together in partnership to realise the share ambitions to improve the health of the 2.6 million people who live in the area, and to improve the quality of their health and care services.

 

Members were informed that the MoU was not a legal contract but was a formal agreement between all the partners; by signing the MoU partner organisations in Bradford District and Craven would commit to play their full roles as members of WY&H HCP and to work within the frameworks described;  accepting the share of collective responsibility gave all the partners the opportunity to achieve greater autonomy and control over how health and care services were developed and transformed.

 

It was reported that each partner organisation was being asked to approve and sign the MoU and that this process would be completed by October 2018.

 

The Chair welcomed the report and highlighted the importance of elected Member involvement and emphasised that it was crucial to look at prevention and getting involved earlier into peoples health rather than looking at clinical solutions;  stopping people getting ill in the first place and keeping them well for longer should be the real priority.  

 

Members were informed that through the WY&H HCP £1m funding for loneliness and carers support was being provided to Voluntary and Community Sector organisations to support that agenda as well as £2.6m for furthering primary care networks and £4m to help A&E Delivery Boards to help people in winter to receive support.

 

The importance of ensuring Bradford received its share of any new funding was highlighted.

 

Resolved-

 

That the draft Memorandum of Understanding for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership be approved.

 

Action:           Strategic Director, Health and Wellbeing

 

                                                           

 

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