Issue - items at meetings - Strategic Commissioning Plan

Presentation by Darren Grayson and Amanda Fadero (Brighton & Hove Primary Care Trust)

37.1    Amanda Fadero, Primary Care Trust, presented the item ‘Improving Health and Developing World Class Healthcare’, the Strategic Commission Plan for the Brighton & Hove Primary Care Trust. 

37.2    She explained that this was a high level strategic plan for the PCT, put in place for the next three to five years, aimed at taking on board shared goals in order to deliver shared outcomes. Ms Fadero guided the Board through the four overarching themes of the plan: its vision, its commitment to the city and its people; its commissioning goals and priorities; and the PCT’s approach to delivery and development.

37.3    Ms Fadero highlighted the focus given to partnership work, by listening to people, carers, partners and patients in order to take this Plan forward.  She further highlighted the focus given to keeping the Brighton & Hove population healthy by targeting specific and different groups, such as minority groups, targeted work on teenage pregnancy, promoting a better health consciousness on both women and men, and promoting independence among the elderly population.

37.4    Ms Fadero stated that the PCT had had a record of good achievement, though the department recognised that more needed to be done and, as such, officers were concentrating efforts to strengthen some areas of their work.

37.5    The Chairman thanked Amanda Fadero, on behalf of the Board, for her presentation on the PCT’s Strategic Commissioning Plan. Members requested that a copy of the presentation be made available to all.

37.6    RESOLVED – That the presentation and its contents be noted.