Issue - meetings

The Board to receive a presentation on this issue.

The Board received a presentation intended to introduce a continuing discussion around the setting of a direction of travel for the Oldham health and care system which assumed that the current system evolving into a new, more dynamic place based unified health and care system capable of operating within a CoVID-19 environment and that the move forward would erode the current descriptors of commissioning and provision.

The presentation considered the intentions and vision of the NHS Long Term Plan alongside the possible and emerging outcomes of a Greater Manchester strategic review of commissioning arrangements.  Arising from these considerations there was an acknowledgment that Oldham’s system needed to adapt and evolve, and a new Oldham model and approach to health and social care was presented for consideration.  The need to give a balanced consideration, one that focused upon local authority’s general duty to promote wellbeing as well as on the NHS, was stressed, and an integrated  model of care based firmly on population health management, a reduction in health inequalities and the enabling of people to live well at home that would be delivered through community resources, primary care, integrated community health and social care, and specialist and hospital based care was presented.

This model would be delivered by a core group of partners who would be supported by key partner organisations and, where appropriate, there would be support for developing provider alliances to help with the delivery of holistic pathways.  The model would be delivered by integrated teams working through integrated community hubs which would offer opportunities to connect services such as schools, vulnerable tenants etc, and a new Assurance Framework would be developed to ensure standards and quality.  The next steps and timescales for what was acknowledged as a challenging activity to develop a system fit for the 21^st century were considered.

The submission and consideration of the presentation as a starting point to enable people to focus on the necessary developments needed to develop the local health and social care system was noted.

RESOLVED that the presentation be noted.