Decision details

The East London Health and Care Partnership (ELHCP) are currently running a consultation on the payment mechanism between those organisations within ELHCP holding budgets for services and those organisations providing them. The consultation opened on 11 July and closes on 29 September, and the ELHCP are inviting written responses from all organisations in the ELHCP as well as clinicians, other health and care professionals and front line staff, finance managers, councils, patients and the public.

The Board will be asked to comment.

The Board:

(i)  Noted the consultation and the impact that future joint commissioning will have as a lever for change and on service development;

(ii)  Suggested that:

(a)  The Local / London Information Sharing Agreement is considered as a priority task for the ELHCP to deliver.

(b)  A payment mechanism for prevention activity and service specific sharing needs to be put into place to improve outcomes and reduce resource demands;

(iii)  Noted that a further report and document is being prepared by the ELHCP and this would be presented to the Board in due course. 

In this regard the Board requested that specific timelines and achievement dates should be stated against the aims detailed in the appendix attached to the current report.

(iv)  Delegated authority to the Chair of the Board to approve the final response on behalf of the Board for submission by the deadline of 29 September 2017.  Noted that the response would be a joint response with the LBBD Health and Adult Services Select Committee (HASSC).