Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Quality and Integration providing an update on the Better Care Fund, attached.

The Board considered the report of the Director of Quality and Integration providing an update of the 2016/17 Better Care Programme and key schemes as at the end of Quarter 2.  The Board noted that Southampton was “pooling” more than the national requirement and was bucking the trend substantially against comparators albeit last year had been a very successful year and targets were therefore a lot harder this year.

The Board noted that there was a challenge in relation to rehabilitation and reablement and supported discharge particularly domiciliary care and the pace of integration which was impacting on the “flow through the system” and linked to delayed transfers of care which was impacting on targets not being met which was of significant concern.  It was noted that an action plan was in place to address this and there had been some improvement in the last 6 weeks.

RESOLVED

(i)  That the progress and performance of the Better Care Programme as of the end of Quarter 2 be noted; and

(ii)  That the priorities of the Better Care Programme for 2017/18 and beyond be approved subject to the inclusion of the following additional priorities:-

·  Work be undertaken to develop the capacity of the Domiciliary Care market

·  End of Life Care and Prevention