Issue - meetings

To consider a joint report of the Executive Councillor (Health & Wellbeing) and the Leader of Council (Policy, Reform & Finance)

The Council and NHS Stockport have agreed in principle to continue with current integrated commissioning arrangements which are currently governed through a Section 75 Agreement.  The current s75 pooled budget agreement is due to expire at the end of March 2013, as the transition from Primary Care Trust (PCT) to Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) takes effect. This report briefly outlines arrangements agreed by both parties to consolidate this transition with a renewed s75 agreement to March 2014.

The Executive is recommended to:-

•           Approve the arrangements outlined in this report for entering into a new s75 (pooled budget) agreement between the Council and the Clinical Commissioning Group from April 2013 to March 2014.

•           Approve the updated Terms of Reference for the Health and Wellbeing Board which oversees the s75 agreement.

Officer contact: Sarah Newsam, 07891 949204, sarah.newsam@stockport.gov.uk

A joint report of the Executive Councillor (Health & Wellbeing) and the Leader of the Council (Policy, Reform & Finance) was submitted (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive Meeting to approve a revised agreement under Section 75 of the NHS Act 2006 between the Council and the Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group for the pooling of budgets for certain health and social care activities. The previous agreement with the Primary Care Trust (PCT) expired upon the disestablishment of PCTs on 31 March 2013.

RESOLVED – That

·         the arrangements outlined in the report for entering into a new Section 75 (pooled budget) arrangement between the Council and Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group from April 2013 to March 2014 be approved;

·         the updated Terms of Reference for the Health & Wellbeing Integrated Commissioning Board which oversees the agreement be approved;

·         the comprehensive review of the pooled budgets and opportunities for further integrated commissioning (including increasing the range and level of budgets being pooled) taking place during 2013/14 be noted;

·         encouragement be given to moving from aligned budgets to pooled budgets, as far as possible.