Issue - meetings

The Panel considered the report of the Integrated Care System which provided an update on the development of the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), the development of the Integrated Care Strategy and local Place-based governance arrangements.

Terry Clark, Director of Commissioning, Integrated Health and Care, Ros Hartley, Director of Partnerships, Integrated Care Board; and Councillor Fielker, Cabinet Member for Health, Adults and Leisure were in attendance and, with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.

The Panel discussed a number of points including:

·  There were two parts to the statutory integrated care system, an Integrated Care Board (ICB), which was an organisation governed with a board and the other was an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) which was a joint committee with upper tier local authorities and the NHS that would collaborate on service delivery and build on the work and strategies of the local Health and Wellbeing Boards.

·  The ICP would develop relationships with a wide range of organisations including the police, health watch and voluntary sector organisations.

·  The terms of reference for the governance and operation of the ICP were being developed and arrangements would be in place by April 2023, however the ICP would continue to grow and develop all the time.

·  Southampton had a history of strong partnership working over the past ten years.

·  The ICP would focus on the local delivery of health and care services and would also be able to focus on the scope for benefits of scale across the whole area, for example collaboration on a workforce recruitment and retention strategy.

·  It would be important for residents to have the opportunity to contribute to the ICP and to take part in the decision making about the delivery of health and care services in their local area.

·  The arrangements would need to ensure that local areas received value for money from the funding they contributed to the Integrated Care System.

·  The report provided information on the integration of health services; however, the Panel were keen for additional focus on the integration of health and social care services.

RESOLVED that the draft Interim Integrated Care Strategy would be considered at the 8 December meeting of the Panel.