Agenda and minutes

Members are asked to declare any interests in the items under consideration and in doing so state:

(1) the type of interest concerned either a

(a)   personal interest

(b)   prejudicial interest

(c)    disclosable pecuniary interest (DPI)

and

(2) the nature of the interest concerned

If any member requires advice on declarations of interests, they are advised to contact the Head of Democratic Governance in advance of the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest on this occasion.

To agree the minutes of the last meeting held informally on 1 July 2021 as a true and correct record.

The Committee agreed that the minutes of the last meeting held informally on 1 July 2021 be signed by the Chairman as a true and correct record.

To consider any applications from members of the public to speak at the meeting.

There were no applications from members of the public to speak on this occasion.

To consider the Executive and Cabinet Member decisions within the portfolio of the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Health taken since the last meeting of the Committee.

The purpose of the report is to provide an update on system flow and the discharge process as requested following the recent committee work planning workshop.

To provide an overview of the whole directorate including financial position and impact of the pandemic.

At previous a Scrutiny Committee a request was made for a report on the recovery of public health commissioned services from COVID measures. This report aims to summarise the impact of COVID and recovery for each of the main public health services.

This report provides an update on the development of the Fylde coast place-based partnership, formerly known as the Integrated Care Partnership. The report provides the national, regional and local context, focusing in detail on the common local developments to date.

Pauline Wigglesworth, Project Director, Place Based Partnership advised that the Place Based Partnership had been previously known as the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and that the renaming of the Integrated Care System to the ICP had necessitated the name change. She advised that the new Health Bill was currently going through the processes in Parliament and was intended to introduce a series of reforms to health and social care with effect from April 2022.

The Place Based Partnership (PBP) would be formed of a range of partners including the Council, the current Clinical Commissioning Groups and voluntary sector representatives. There would be five PBPs across the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICP with the Fylde Coast PBP covering Blackpool and a common strategy would be developed covering all five PBPs.

The Committee queried the impact of the regular changes to the governance of the NHS on staff and whether each iteration was discarded or built upon for the next. In response, Ms Wigglesworth advised that projects and service provision that had been regarded as working well and had been developed through research, learning and hard work would always sought to be integrated into new models. There was a move to standardisation across the ICP whilst ensuring decisions were made as close to the community as possible. The new model would also ensure that health and social care services were working as closely together as possible for the benefit of the patient.

The Committee agreed to request that training be provided for all Councillors on the Place Based Partnership.

To review the work of the Committee, the implementation of recommendations and note the update on the Enhanced Network Model of Acute Stroke Care and Rehabilitation in Lancashire and South Cumbria briefing.

The Committee considered its workplan and requested that the report from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust scheduled for March 2022 be expanded to include feedback on the use of GPs in the Emergency Department.

To note the date and time of the next meeting as 2 December 2021, commencing at 6.00pm in the Council Chamber.

The date and time of the next meeting was noted as Thursday 2 December 2021.