Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Public Health & Equality

Forward Plan Ref: 2022/157

Contact: David Munday, Consultant in Public Health, 07922 849652

Report by Corporate Director for Public Health & Wellbeing (CA13).

The Health and Care Act 2022 established Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) as legal entities and created new NHS bodies called Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). Within this legislation all ICSs are required to establish new partnership forums called Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs). These bring together ICBs and Local Authorities (LAs) with responsibility for Social Care and Public Health in order to integrate the services they plan, purchase, and provide for local residents.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

a)              APPROVE the establishment of a new joint committee- the Integrated Care Partnership covering the Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire West area- and in principle, the working draft terms of reference for this partnership (See Annex 1)

b)              APPROVE the appointment of 2 cabinets members of Oxfordshire County Council to this partnership

c)              NOTE- the Leader of Oxfordshire County Council will agree the final version of the Terms of References once finalised in collaboration with all other founding partners.

Recommendations agreed.

Cabinet considered draft Terms of Reference for the new Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) which will bring together Integrated Care Boards and Local Authorities (LAs) with responsibility for Social Care and Public Health in order to integrate the services they plan, purchase, and provide for local residents.

The Chair introduced the report.  The Leaders of the six member organisations: OCC and the unitary councils Buckinghamshire, West Berkshire, Reading and Wokingham plus the ICB were working on Terms of Reference which will be adopted at the first meeting of the ICP in October.

As the only upper tier council in the ICP, it was agreed that Oxfordshire needed representation from the city and district councils to bring in issues such as health place shaping.

Cabinet Members commented as follows:

·       This was an opportunity to move to an evidence-based health care approach.

·       Compared to other health systems the NHS underspends on preventive and early intervention approaches.

·       The draft indicated that the Chair of the ICP would agree the agenda whereas it should be agreed by the Members of the ICP.  The Chair agreed to take that point up with the other organisations.

Responding to concerns expressed over control of pooled budgets, Stephen Chandler, Interim Chief Executive and local authority representative on the ICB, added that the Section 75 pooled budget was agreed by this Council in March 2022 and can only be altered by this Council.

The recommendations were moved by the Chair, seconded by Councillor Sudbury and agreed.

RESOLVED to

a)              APPROVE the establishment of a new joint committee- the Integrated Care Partnership covering the Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire West area- and in principle, the working draft terms of reference for this partnership (See Annex 1)

b)              APPROVE the appointment of 2 cabinets members of Oxfordshire County Council to this partnership

c)              NOTE- the Leader of Oxfordshire County Council will agree the final version of the Terms of References once finalised in collaboration with all other founding partners