Agenda item

To enable Cabinet to give consideration to a request made to it by the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee in respect of the above.

That Cabinet agrees that when the STP Plan is at a more detailed level, the STP Lead be contacted to seek assurance that timely consultation with the wider public will take place and that an All Member Briefing be held as part of this process.

Cabinet was informed that, at the meeting of the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee held on 20 March 2017, Susannah Howard (STP Programme Director) from the Clinical Commissioning Group was in attendance and gave the Committee a presentation on the Sustainability Transformation Plan. This is a high level strategy for transformation of the health service and focuses on a system rather than an organisational approach. The next stage will be to develop operational plans for each strand so that meaningful consultation can take place with a wider audience on what the STP means in practice for front line staff and patients. The presentation covered the following:

(1) Introduction;

(2) NHS structure;

(3) Working together and moving forward;

(4) Suffolk and North East Essex footprint statistics;

(5) The three main areas of the STP Plan;

(6) The required steps to help achieve and deliver the complex programme;

(7) The conclusions of the Kings Fund Review of STPs;

(8) Taking the STP forward;

(9) Work streams;

(10) Governance;

(11) STP programme board – Terms of reference;

(12) Process of aligning work streams to the STP;

(13) Work stream delivery mandate;

(14) Dashboard reporting; and

(15) Forthcoming interactive programme events.

Members had asked questions on various issues which including:-

·         Social care issues and bed blocking;

·         How the high level STP will be communicated down to front line staff;

·         What the impact of the STP will ultimately be on patients;

·         Financial savings;

·         Collaborative working with for example the ambulance service and GP services and how the STP integrated with other health issues such as the urgent care review and the contract for provision to 0 -19 year olds;

·         Engagement with other stakeholders such as Police and Fire;

·         The need to streamline health provision ranging from consultants to chemists and how this could be done.

It had been agreed that Susannah Howard be invited back to a future meeting along with representatives from the North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group  and Essex County Council in order to discuss a more detailed plan of what STP means for Tendring health staff and patients.

The Committee had agreed that Cabinet be requested to contact the STP Lead to seek assurance that when the STP Plan is at a more detailed level, timely consultation with the wide public will take place.

The Cabinet had before it the following recommendation of the Leisure and Partnerships Portfolio Holder made in response to the request of the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee:

“When the STP Plan is at a more detailed level, the STP Lead be contacted to seek assurance that timely consultation with the wider public will take place.”

Having considered the request of the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee and the recommendation of the Leisure and Partnerships Portfolio Holder:

It was moved by Councillor McWilliams, seconded by Councillor Turner and:

RESOLVED that Cabinet agrees that when the STP Plan is at a more detailed level, the STP Lead be contacted to seek assurance that timely consultation with the wider public will take place and that an All Member Briefing be held as part of this process.