Issue - meetings

This paper recommends options (a) and (d) and that the council:

Explores the potential for forming a place based joint committee for the delivery of NHS services and Isle of Wight Council Services on the Isle of Wight, on the basis of delegating responsibility for the delivery of Better Care Fund activities to the joint committee in the first instance.

AND

Looks to abolish the Isle of Wight Integrated Care Partnership at the point that a new Local Place Based Partnership is established for the Isle of Wight by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System.

The Bill was the result of a government Directive and was making its way through Parliament and would enable the council to move towards a new integrated health and care system with collective decisions being made locally, should it wish to proceed along these lines. Once a new Integrated Care System was put in place the existing Integrated Care Partnership would be abolished.

The recommendations of the Policy and Scrutiny Committee for Health and Social Care were acknowledged, in that the Director of Adult Social Care should have a position on the ICS NHS body as well as on the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS Partnership.

Consideration was given to the report which recommended that the Cabinet explores the potential for forming a place-based joint committee for the delivery of NHS and Council Services on the Isle of Wight.

The committee noted the concerns of the Policy and Scrutiny Committee for Health and Social Care in relation to the transparency and accountability of the Integrated Care Partnership (and the full involvement of adult social care in its membership), together with the impact of the current level of dentistry provision on the Island and on acute and primary care services. It was agreed that future developments related to this matter would be referred through the Policy and Scrutiny Committee.

RESOLVED:

THAT the Committee offers no further comment as this matter has been previously discussed by the Policy and Scrutiny Committee for Health and Social Care.