Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Quality and Integration providing an overview of performance in 2018/19 against Southampton's Better Care programme and pooled fund, including the iBCF (improved Better Care Fund), and highlighting priorities for 2019/20. 

The Board received the report of the Director of Quality and Integration that provided an overview of performance in 2018/19 against Southampton's Better Care programme and pooled fund, including the improved Better Care Fund (iBCF), and highlighted priorities for 2019/20.

Donna Chapman - NHS Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group; Felicity Ridgeway - Service Lead Policy, Partnerships and Strategic Planning, Southampton City Council; and Dave Stewart, Leader and Cabinet Member for Strategic Partnerships, Isle of Wight Council, were present and with the consent of the chair addressed the Board.

The Board particularly noted that:

• the Better Care programme had brought together physical and mental health services, statutory and non-statutory organisations, a strength based approach and a local place based approach
• the Better Care programme included a set of measures so that it could be seen where developments had been effective
• the clinical model was working well, the contractual model needed to catch up
• the pilots had been very successful and achieved great results and the board hoped they could be replicated in a wider area