Issue - meetings

Report CS14075

Recognising the benefits of integrating community health services with L B Bromley social care assessment and care management, Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) intended to extend their Community Health Services contract until at least March 2017. This presented three options towards an integrated community health and care service:

(1) working with BCCG on a specification for community services in preparation for jointly procuring a new service from 1^st April 2017;

(2) pursuing (1) above but also looking at ‘soft’ integration opportunities with Bromley Healthcare to start aligning services ready for re-procurement; and

(3) pursuing (1) above but also start to test a fully integrated service by formally transferring social care staff to Bromley Health Care as existing community provider.

Authorisation was sought to fully explore the options with Bromley Health Care (BHC) and their commissioners, Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG). Recommendations could then be provided to Members in June 2015.

To support the work, a steering group would explore the potential for a joint bid with BCCG and BHC against NHS England’s new “£200m investment fund to promote transformation in local health economies, with a particular focus on investment in the new models of care”. The funding could supply the necessary extra capacity to explore how integration of staff, budgets, and systems would work in detail and how the services could be aligned to provide best value. It would also help in analysing the scope of integration and clarifying risks involved in pursuing any of the options.

The Leader expressed his support for the direction of travel.

RESOLVED that the steering group explore the options at paragraph 3.3 of Report CS14075 with the borough’s existing community health services provider, Bromley Health Care (BHC) and their commissioners, Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG).