Issue - meetings

Mr Warren Heppolette presented the draft Joint Forward Plan. This was the delivery plan for the Integrated Care Partnership Strategy and was based on its six missions; the actions to deliver them; the measures for tracking delivery; and where accountability is held.

Board Members discussed the Joint Forward Plan, raising the following points:

•           Connecting localities would enable sight of best practice across GM and implementation elsewhere; less about scale and more about right methods for supporting spread of best practice.

•           Metrics for monitoring success to drive activity but challenge as to whether they were the right metrics to support the delivery of services in a different way. Also noted that metrics were not necessarily meaningful to those they represented. These metrics would be further developed to enable interdependencies between them and to highlight when producing unwelcome outcomes in the system.

•           Noted the lack of a shared view across the system, and how this affects the balance of resources.

•           Consistent metrics and delivery through every Locality Board – aim for this to drive system performance and course correction across GM but able to provide meaningful outcomes for localities and specific populations.

•           Financial operation on a system level hampered by continuation of individual contracts; those in place to provide ability to address issues on a neighbourhood level - don’t want to remove agency from individual teams but still want to be able to move resources around to address need.

•           Further clarity over Core 20 PLUS; focus on health inequalities and driving understanding of which populations are facing barriers to treatment. Noted that support needed not just for those with vocal demand but also populations that are less able to advocate as successfully.

The Chair advised that these discussions would continue, and reminded the Board that the draft  plan was open for consultation until30th June. It was agreed Will Blandamer would submit a response to the Forward Plan based on the discussion in the meeting to date.

The Locality Board

Received the Joint Forward Plan.