Agenda item - Better Care Plan

RESOLVED: That the Health and Wellbeing Board note the report.

40.1    Ashley Scarff, Director of Commissioning BHCCG, introduced the report on the general update of performance and finance for the Brighton and hove Better Care Fund (BCF) programme prepared by the Better Care Fund Steering Group  for assurance and to note. He stated that the overall indicators showed good progress.

40.2    Councillor Page thanked Ashley Scarff for the report and welcomed the regular update on the BCF to the Board and that the programme could support wider health and social care services.

40.3    In response to Councillor Page, The Executive Director- Adult & Social Care stated that he did not think it was appropriate to comment on individual organisations and all funding decisions had to be kept in their context and that this report was about the BCF performance on a strategic level.

40.4    Councillor Taylor welcomed the report and the progress made and stated that targets had to be constantly revised to ensure the best outcomes were delivered to residents and that he looked forward to future updates in due course. In terms of spending, he stated that there was a large variance in community equipment spending and asked for clarification as a written statement as to why this variance existed as there had been previous paper on preventing this imbalance.

40.5    The Chair stated that if this was something that the Board complied then this would be good information to have.

RESOLVED: That the Health and Wellbeing Board note the report.