Agenda item - Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group Commissioning Intentions 2016/17

Report of the Chief Operating Officer of the Clinical Commissioning Group (copy attached).

55.1 The Board considered the report of Ms C Holloway, Interim Chief Operating Officer, Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and Ms R Booth, Head of Planning and Delivery, Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group. The report set out the draft commissioning intentions of the CCG for the period 2016-17, and set out the requirements for the development of a longer term plan covering the period October 2016 to March 2021.

55.2  Ms McCabe noted that some areas such as maternity services and multiple births, didn’t appear in next years plan and in terms of primary care there was information about being more resilient, but it didn’t feel quite robust enough. Another area was cancer treatment, waiting times and accident and emergency and she felt that there was a lack of information about how those intentions would be achieved. Ms Booth said there were some gaps in this early version which would be addressed in the final version. With regard to multiple births that would be included in the final version. NHS England would test the plans to ensure they were deliverable.

55.3  The Executive Director Adult Services referred the Board to paragraph 4.4 of the report and asked them to note that the Sustainability and Transformation Plans were Health and Social Care Plans. With regard to the commissioning intentions for Personal Health Budgets, she welcomed it but noted the intention to work with providers to develop the model and suggested that the issue should be that a personal budget was to enable people to make a choice and that needed to be considered when taking the plan forward.

55.4  Councillor Mac Cafferty said that it would have been a good opportunity for the CCG to talk about equalities, and how the commissioning intentions would be delivered in deprived areas. Ms Booth said that underpinning each of the commissioning intentions was a business case and that set out how the each of the specific items would be delivered and how they would tackle inequality in the city. When the Operating Plan was produced more detail would be provided and would set out how inequalities would be addressed.

55.5  The Chair said that a more developed version would come to the Board in due course.

55.6    RESOLVED: That the Board:

1.    Noted the draft commissioning intentions of the CCG for the period 2016-17;

2.    Agreed that the draft commissioning intentions 2016-2017 took account of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment;

3.    Noted the requirement and timetable for the development of a longer term plan covering the period October 2016 to March 2021.