Issue - meetings

The Panel considered the report of NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW) which summarised the NHS plan for the future across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

James House, Managing Director, Southampton Place, NHS Hampshire & Isle of Wight; and Joe Hannigan, former Mental Health Professional and member of the Trade Union Council and the Care and Health Integration Panel; were in attendance and, with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.

The Panel noted that NHS HIOW had recently published Our Renewed Ambition which was a statutory document that the organisation was required to produce.  The document consolidated several strategies into one comprehensive plan which set out how NHS partners intended to exercise their functions in the next five years.  The plan had been shared with partners throughout its development and had been presented to the Health and Wellbeing Board for Southampton.  The strategic commitments are:

·  To make a shift towards more proactive and preventative care

·  To deliver person-centred care led by the needs of the whole person and underpinned by a community-centred approach to wellbeing

·  To develop and maximise pathways of care based on clinical outcomes, evidence and data

·  To maximise the use of resources in the system building on models of collaboration, partnership and integration.

·  To be a learning system using improvement methods, research and innovation to continuously improve.

In discussion the Panel noted the following:

·  In the past funds had been directed towards addressing problems rather than solutions.  To reduce demand for acute services the emphasis in the plan was on delivering proactive and preventative care, which was recognised as more cost effective and efficient.

·  A modelling tool had been developed to pull together data from the various healthcare services, which used algorithms to identify the patients likely to need acute care within six months and the interventions that could be provided now to prevent those patients needing acute care.  This has helped to find and utilise quick wins to free up resources from the acute sector to be invested in more preventative care.

·  The move toward Integrated Neighbourhood Teams – Locality based health and care practitioners, including doctors, nurses, social workers, working in a co-ordinated way to support the needs of the community.

·  It was highlighted that good partnership working already existed in the city.

·  The approach to hospital discharge had been revised after the Covid-19 pandemic. The revised approach supported staff in making discharge decisions and optimizing care pathways.

·  The financial challenges faced by both the NHS and the Council were acknowledged. These challenges underpinned the need to deliver the objectives outlined in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS strategy.

·  The strategy was NHS focussed but had been formed with input from partners who were encouraged to use the plan to hold the NHS to account.

RESOLVED that, reflecting the increased focus on neighbourhood working outlined in the strategy, a discussion on Integrated Neighbourhood Teams would be scheduled for a future meeting of the HOSP.