Issue - meetings

To consider a joint report of the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services (Stockport Council) and the Chief Finance Officer (Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group).

The report sets our data relating to performance of the Better Care Fund for the second quarter of 2015/16. The report also includes completed template returns required by NHS England.

Officer contact: Michael Cullen (Council) / Marc Brady (CCG), 0161 474 4631, 0161 426 5589

A joint report of the Chief Finance Officer (Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group) and the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services (Stockport Council) was submitted (copies of which had been circulated) providing the Quarter 2 Data Collection Return for the Better Care Fund that was required for submission to NHS England.

It was reported that because the number of Non-Elective Admissions was 9,837 which was in excess of the planned figure no performance funding would be released by NHS England.

The Board were invited to consider the proposal of reviewing and revising the planned activity figure for Quarter 4 that would impact on the 2016/17 Better Care Fund. It was proposed to revise the figure to 9,303 non-elective admissions, as set out in paragraph 3.3 of the report.

RESOLVED – (1) That in relation to the Better Care Fund Quarter 2 Data Collection Return:-

·         the continuation of growth of Non-Elective admissions at a rate greater than plan and therefore no element of the performance fund being released be noted;

·         approval be given to the submission of the Q2 BCF monitoring tool to NHS England on or before 27 November 2015;

·         the financial performance of the BCF as at Q2 be noted; and

·         approval be given to revising the Q4 2015-16 plan to reflect a decrease of 3.5% on Q4 14/15 actual admissions on a planning basis, subject to ongoing review.