Issue - meetings

Joint report of the Head of Adult Commissioning and Health, NEW Devon CCG and South Devon and Torbay CCG on the BCF, Quarter Return, Performance Report and Performance Summary on the BCF, Quarter Return, Performance Report and Performance Summary, attached.

The Board considered a joint Report of the Joint Associate Director of Commissioning, Devon County Council and NHS Devon CCG on the BCF, Quarter Return, Performance Report and Performance Summary.

Regular reports were provided on the progress of the Devon Better Care Fund Plan to enable monitoring by the Health and Wellbeing Board. Performance and progress was reviewed monthly by the Joint Coordinating Commissioning Group through the high level metrics reports and progress overview.

The Report informed Members that the recent return to NHS England on 27 September 2019 had met each of the national conditions required of the submission.   As part of the return, the submission outlined the 2019/20 targets and plan around four key metrics:

·         total number of specific acute non-elective spells per 100,000 population;

·         delayed transfers of care per day (daily delays) from hospital;

·         long term support needs of older people met by admission to residential and nursing care homes older 100,000 population; and

·         proportion of older people who were still at home 91 days after the discharge from hospital into reablement / rehabilitation services.

Members discussion points included:

·         Delayed Transfers of Care had improved across the County, apart from Exeter where this was above the 3.5% target;

·         Winter monies – social care received £3.5m to cope with additional demand over the winter period to enhance capacity and invest in Primary Care and hospitals;

·         Funding from the BCF to help support districts to provide appropriate housing;

·         The Proud to Care campaign and the aim to integrate workforces under the banner of the NHS; and

·         the difficulty in being able to recruit the staff needed to carry out the work, to manage demand better and enable communities to do more for themselves. 

RESOLVED that the Devon Better Care Fund Report be endorsed.