Issue - meetings

The Board received a presentation from Sharon Morrow, B&D CCG on the East London Health and Care Partnership on the development to date of the Partnership’s response to the NHS Long-Term Plan (LTP) setting out a 5 year strategy of how partners realise the ambitions of the LTP through working together to provide high quality care and better health outcomes for patients and their families, through every stage of life.

In response to the presentation the Board whilst acknowledging the level of resident engagement to date, had concerns about how & when local residents can expect to begin to feel the benefits of the proposed integrated care & collaboration arrangements for NE London, highlighting as an example a key point made in the B&D Healthwatch findings of residents being able to get timely appointments and access to GP services. The CCG undertook to bring a report back to the Board in this respect.

Other observations included whether Barking & Dagenham’s voice would be heard under the planned Health & Care system across North East London, whether this was simply another high-level structural change unrelated to what this Board is seeking to achieve under the JNA.    

The Board noted the timelines, key dates and the next steps and that the CCG will present a further report on the detail of the final response prior to its submission on 15 November 2019.