Issue - meetings

Report of the Chief Officer of the Clinical Commissioning Group detailing the strategic direction of Health Services in the City for the next two years, attached.

The Board considered the report detailing the NHS Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group Two Year Operational Plan 2017/19 which aligned with the wider aims of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight STP and translated these into local practical action. 

The Board noted that the Plan had been assessed and approved by NHS England and had received Southampton Clinical Commissioning Governing Body approval which now provided ability to operate freely within it without any imposed conditions.  The Plan whilst acknowledging workforce fragility would be going into 2016/17 with a planned delivery position and into 2017/18 with no deficit and a relatively good year of growth albeit subsequent years would be much more challenging.  As a result there was a savings plan for the next two years which would not be about ceasing services but about mitigating demand for forthcoming years and identifying the risks all of which were in the operational plan.

The Board noted that there was a Southampton System Delivery of STP which involved all the Chief Executives of the main providers of the plan who met and monitored it and which H&WBB had oversight of however there was still concern over engagement and consultation in relation to the STP which would be raised within a forthcoming meeting of Healthwatch and its neighbouring Healthwatch’s.

Mr Abelardo Clariana-Piga representing “Southampton Keep our NHS Public” was in attendance at the meeting and with the consent of the Chair addressed the meeting. 

RESOLVED:

(i)  That the adoption by NHS Southampton City CCG of its Operational Plan for the period 2017-2019 be acknowledged and the valuable contribution this would make to the development of integrated health care services in Southampton in line with the City’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Better Care Southampton Programme be welcomed;

(ii)  That close working relationships with other Health and Wellbeing Boards across Hampshire and Isle of Wight to develop appropriate governance and oversight arrangements at a political, clinical and executive level that ensured successful implementation of integrated sustainability and transformation proposals within the wider geographical area be continued.