Issue - meetings

Report CS16025 

Approval was sought to extend the contract with Bromley Healthcare (BHC) for Health Visiting and the National Child Measurement Programme (arranged through a joint block contract with Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group). The contract would expire on 31st March 2017.

Information on apportioning mandated and discretionary services within the BHC service was not currently available and a detailed audit and service mapping exercise was being undertaken. Overlapping services were potentially being offered to vulnerable families by Health Visiting and early Intervention services. As such, work had started to identify more effective and efficient ways of closer working with changes potentially being able to provide savings. The extension period would enable appropriate service delivery models to be considered.

RESOLVED that:

(1)  the contract with BHC for Health Visiting and the National Child Measurement Programme be extended for six months to 30th September 2017; and

(2)  further work be conducted on the integration of Health Visiting services into the Children and Family Centres in the L B Bromley Early Intervention Services - should this option not prove feasible, the services are to be tendered separately.