Issue - meetings

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

The Board considered a joint report from 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. The Board noted that the 3^rd quarter return had been submitted on 3 March 2017.

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 Co-ordinating Commissioning Group through the high level metrics reports and progress overview.

The report summarised the BCF activity in terms of the work towards the National Conditions, and outlined all the conditions had been met. 

It also provided ‘Outcome’ measures which included agreement on a system wide action plan to  reduce delayed transfers of care (developed with providers and owned by the multi-agency A & E Delivery Boards), a summary of BCF schemes focused on reduction of non-elective admissions, monitoring the support for people with dementia, including assessing the length of stay for people with dementia admitted to hospital rather than diagnosis rates, the permanent admissions to residential and nursing care homes (the rate being significantly below the South West average) and effectiveness of re-ablement services (which were effective for around 88% of older people).

Members of the Board noted that Delayed Transfers of Care was still a challenging target and that coverage (rather than effectiveness) of re-ablement services was still benchmarking lower than desired.

RESOLVED that the 3^rd quarter return be endorsed.