Agenda item

Pat Jones Greenhalgh, Executive Director Communities and Wellbeing will report at the meeting.  Report is attached.

Pat Jones-Greenhalgh, Executive Director Communities and Wellbeing provided a monitoring report in respect of the Better Care Fund.

The Executive Director reported the following key points at Quarter 2:

·           As at Q2 the budget is forecasting a balanced position

·           All of the national conditions continue to be met

·           Funds have been pooled by a s75 pooled budget

·           3 out of 6 of the metrics are on track to meet target at the end of the year (Delayed Transfers of Care, Falls and Reablement)

·           1 metric out of the 6 – data is not available to assess progress (this relates to patient satisfaction - awaiting further survey results throughout the remainder of year which may impact on the average figure.

·           No improvement in performance for NELs at Q2

·           Improved performance but not on track to meet target for residential admissions.

·           There is continued work on the NE Sector Integrated Care Record

·           There are 16 PHBs in place at Q2

It was reported that information had been included within the report around new performance monitoring for the Better Care Fund which allows performance to be tracked monthly in relation to the metrics.

Delegated decision:

That the report be noted