Issue - meetings

1.      That the update on the emerging NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) be noted.

2.      That authority be delegated to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Wellbeing and Health, to sign off the STPs on behalf of the Council through its membership of the relevant STP Transformation / Programme Boards.

Reasons for Decisions:

The deadlines and tight timescales for the preparation and submission of NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans necessitate the recommendation included in this report to delegate authority to sign off the STPs on behalf of the Council ahead of the deadline for submission to NHS England.

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Social Care Services Scrutiny Board]

Introducing this report, the Cabinet Member for Wellbeing and Health said that the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) represented the next milestone in delivering commitments made in the five year forward view to create a NHS which was not only sustainable but one that also improved health outcomes and provided a better experience for patients.

She said that local authorities, as commissioners of social care, had a pivotal role to play in establishing STPs that were successful place-based systems of care and which responded to the needs of local populations. For local authorities across England this would require significant co-operation with Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and other partners, in order to drive ever closer integration of health and social care services.

She informed Cabinet that with six CCGs and three STP footprints spread across a number of local authority areas, the landscape of health and social care delivery in Surrey would be complex. She said that over the last three years, the County Council had built lasting relationships with its CCG partners which would enable close collaboration across the three STP footprints, in order to deliver effective and integrated place based systems.

This strong relationship and shared understanding with the CCGs was already evident, as demonstrated by the fact that the County Council’s Chief Executive had been asked to chair Surrey Heartlands STP Transformation Board. Surrey was also at the forefront of ensuring that Members were sufficiently engaged in the work of developing the STPs with all of the footprints having already been considered by both the Health and Wellbeing Board and the Wellbeing and Health Scrutiny Board.

She commended the recommendations, within the report, to Cabinet.

The Leader of the Council highlighted the risk implications, as detailed in paragraph 18 of the submitted report.

RESOLVED:

1.      That the update on the emerging NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) be noted.

2.      That authority be delegated to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Wellbeing and Health, to sign off the STPs on behalf of the Council through its membership of the relevant STP Transformation / Programme Boards.

Reasons for Decisions:

The deadlines and tight timescales for the preparation and submission of NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans necessitate the recommendation included in this report to delegate authority to sign off the STPs on behalf of the Council ahead of the deadline for submission to NHS England.