Issue - meetings

(The Chair agreed that this item could be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency under the provisions of Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972.)

Sharon Morrow, Chief Operating Officer, Barking and Dagenham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) presented the report on the opportunity for the CCG to earn a Quality Premium, which was intended to reward CCGs for improvements in quality of the services they commission and for associated improvements in health outcomes.  There were six measures against which the CCG can claim a portion of the Quality Premium Payment, the details of which were set out in the report.  The Quality Premium could provide a maximum payment of £5 per head of population and if all the measures were achieved the 2015/16 Quality Premium would potentially be worth in the order of £1m for the Barking and Dagenham CCG.

The Board discussed the proposals and received assurance that whilst there would be difficulties in achieving some areas, the six measures, which included the two local measures, are areas where work had begun and could with extra effort produce the required results.

Sara Baker commented that in order to ensure the number of patients discharged over weekends or bank holidays increased there would need to be support in place to receive them.  The Chair responded that the impetus for that target was the Joint Assessment and Discharge Unit (JAD) which was already in place and was having a significant effect in reducing delays in discharge from hospital by ensuring proper and timely support was in place.

Conor Burke confirmed that the targets were realistic and there were no extra costs or pressures.

The Board:

(i)  Agreed to support the CCG in its response to the NHS England in regards to the 2015/16 Quality Premium, and 

(ii)  Approve the measures and trajectories for 2015/16 within that response, as set out in Section 2 of the report.