Item 6 - Moving Forward on Health Care Reform (E23/6)

This paper explores steps in three particular areas in which London boroughs could seek to make progress within 2015/16 to move forward on health and care reform, both to make progress on improving outcomes and to strengthen the foundations for more ambitious care reform requiring devolution.  It seeks the Executive’s views on collective aspirations and actions to support locally driven work in these areas.

 

Recommendations    

The Executive is asked to discuss their aspirations for how progress can be made within existing powers to move forward on health and care reform within 2015/16.  In particular, the Executive is asked to:

1.    agree a common aspiration that all London’s Health and Wellbeing Boards should strengthen themselves and increase their effectiveness as system leaders for locally driven health and care reform within 2015/16 and that London Councils’ should refresh the stocktake of London Boards at the end of the year; 

2.    agree that London Councils should develop, as far as possible jointly with London’s CCGs, a call to government to clarify the approach to BCF in 2016/17 before the summer, putting forward a series of proposals intended to deliver the aspirations outlined in this paper; and

3.    agree a common aspiration to seek the establishment of effective sub-regional partnership working between boroughs and the NHS in London within 2015/16 and that London Councils should do some work with chief executives to support this and draw out broad models.