Agenda and minutes

To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from the following:

To consider any items of Urgent Business. (Late items of Urgent Business will be considered under agenda item where they appear. New items of Urgent Business will be considered under Item 12 below).

There were no items of Urgent Business.

Members of the Board must declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests with respect to agenda items and must not take part in any decisions made with respect to those items.

No declarations of interest were made.

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 10 June 2010 as a correct record.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 10 June 2010 be confirmed as a correct record.

The Board received a presentation on the funding cuts facing the  financial situation and how

The Board received a report that provided a briefing on the White Paper published on 12 July 2010 entitled ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’.

The one of the key changes arising from this was the abolition of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and the creation of an NHS Commissioning Board and GP collaboratives.  The new GP collaboratives would take over responsibility for the commissioning of services by 2013. Other significant changes included allowing patients to register with the GP of their choice, rather than restricting them to their local GP, and opening up health provision to allow private providers to compete to deliver services.

In terms of performance and strategic priorities the White Paper proposed that a new outcome focussed framework would be established for health and social care to replace existing targets and the Secretary of State would be responsible for setting national objectives for health improvement.  The Care Quality Commission (CQC) would regulate the quality of health and social care and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) would set standards.

Local Authorities would take over responsibility for Public Health and as part of this would be required to appoint a Director of Public Heath; a ring fenced budget for ‘Health Improvement’ would be allocated to Local Authorities to support this function. As part of this shift in responsibilities Local Authorities would be required to establish Health and Well Being Boards by April 2012 and these would have four key functions:

• Leading on a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) to assess local needs
• Promoting integration and partnership working (including joint commissioning)
• Supporting joint commissioning and pooled budget arrangements
• Overview and Scrutiny

The Board discussed

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.

The Board received a report that provided an update on the approach to performance management taken by NHS Haringey and the Council.

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.

This report will be sent to follow.

The Board received a report that provided an overview of performance against Local Area Agreement (LAA) National and Local Performance Indicators (PIs) within the Boards responsibility during the first quarter of 2010/11.

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.  

The Board received a report that provided an overview of performance against Local Area Agreement (LAA) National and Local Performance Indicators (PIs) within the Boards responsibility during the first quarter of 2010/11.

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.  

The Board received a report that presented the status of risks associated with its running and against the achievement of key LAA targets as measured within the Well Being Risk Register as of 30 June 2010.

Due to the political climate and the pace with which new policies and legislation was being implemented there were currently areas of risk, such as the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) and two White Papers, that could not be measured at present. There was agreement that once further information became available the register would need to be revised in order to reflect this.  

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.

A briefing note with respect to the process is attached.

The Board received a briefing note setting out the process that would be followed with respect to tackling reductions to the Area Based Grant (ABG) and the refresh of the Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS).

RESOLVED:

That the paper be noted.

To note the minutes of sub group meetings set out below:

• Autistic Spectrum Conditions Steering Group: 12 July 2010
• Carers Partnership Board: 23 July 2010, 24 August 2010
• Learning Disabilities Partnership Board: 14 July 2010, 18 August 2010
• Mental Health Partnership: 8 July 2010, 9 September 2010
• Older Persons Partnership Board: 9 August 2010

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the sub groups appended to the agenda be noted.

To consider any new items of Urgent Business raised under Item 2 above.

No new items of Urgent Business were raised.

To consider any items of AOB members of the Board wish to raise.

No items of AOB were raised.

To note the dates of meetings for the remainder of 2010/11 as set out below:

• 11 January 2010, 7pm, Council Chamber, Civic Centre
• 7 April 2011, 7pm, Council Chamber, Civic Centre

The dates of future meetings, set out below, were noted:

• 11 January 2010, 7pm, Council Chamber, Civic Centre
• 7 April 2011, 7pm, Council Chamber, Civic Centre