Issue - meetings

At the request of the Board, this is a standing item on the agenda.

Members and officers presented are invited to update the Board on developments with the transformation of health and social care services in Stockport and Greater Manchester.

The Chair invited partners present to update the Board on developments with the transformation of health and social care services in Greater Manchester.

Andrew Webb reported that the Greater Manchester Transformation Fund had now entered a new phase and would be allocating resources to targeted areas of need, such as mental health. There was a need for partners locally to update the Locality Plan to ensure that it was aligned with Transformation Fund requirements.

Jane Crombleholme highlighted the recent publication of the Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Strategic Partnership Annual Report that set out key achievements of partners in Greater Manchester in the last year.

Donna Sager highlighted the recent Health & Wellbeing Board stakeholder event at which Jane Pilkington, Deputy Director of GM Population Health, had made a presentation about the Greater Manchester Population Health Plan. Partners in GM had expressed an interest in Stockport’s health champion initiative and whether this could be adopted in other parts of the conurbation.

RESOLVED – That the update be noted.

At the request of the Board, this is a standing item on the agenda.

Members and officers presented are invited to update the Board on developments with the transformation of health and social care services in Stockport and Greater Manchester.

The Chair reported that this item would be considered in conjunction with the Stockport Together Update.

At the request of the Board, this is a standing item on the agenda.

Members and officers presented are invited to update the Board on developments with the transformation of health and social care services in Stockport and Greater Manchester.

Partners were invited to update the Board on developments with the transformation of health and social care services in Greater Manchester.

Andrew Webb, Corporate Director for People, Stockport Council highlighted the significant work taking place in the development of the process for the distribution of the Transformation Fund. He also reported that many of the appointments to significant posts within the Greater Manchester health and social care partnership structure had now been made.

Donna Sager, Deputy Director of Public Health, reported that the Greater Manchester Population Health Plan recently been launched. She emphasised that there was consistency between it and the local Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy. Local partners had also expressed interest in participating in a number of the pilots arising from the GM Plan.

Dr Ranjit Gill, Chief Clinical Officer, Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group, reported that as part of the ongoing work to standardise hospital standards across GM (known as ‘Theme 3’), the specialisms had now been selected that would be subject to review with a view to removing variation in access and in prescribing inefficiencies. He emphasised the significance and scale of this piece of work.

RESOLVED – That the update be noted.