Issue - meetings

Purpose: The Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) have been invited to update the Committee on progress implementing Integrated Neighbourhood Teams in West Berkshire.

Helen Clark (Associate Director of Place, Berkshire West, BOB ICB) gave an overview of the report on ‘Developing our foundation for neighbourhood health’ (Agenda item 7).

During the presentation the following points were highlighted:

·           In 2024 the Government made a commitment that the NHS would evolve into a neighbourhood health service with care available closer to people’s homes to deliver a new model of care. Three key shifts would enable this: illness to prevention, analogue to digital, and hospital to community care. The neighbourhood health approach would reinforce these ways of working in the NHS, local government, social care and their partners.

·           There were six core components that local systems needed to consider:

1.      Population health management

2.      Modern general practice

3.      Standardised community health

4.      Neighbourhood multidisciplinary teams

5.      Integrated intermediate care with a ‘Home First’ approach

6.      Urgent neighbourhood services

·           It was highlighted that neighbourhood multidisciplinary teams were not new to West Berkshire. It had been more active some time ago and needed a refresh.

·           The development of neighbourhood working would have key parameters especially around population health. It needed to be bespoke to the local area, whilst also delivering consistency. The development of this would be through the Locality Integration Board (a Sub-Body of the West Berkshire Health and Wellbeing Board). It was early in its development and they were currently working through how it would work in practice.

·           It was asked how the reorganisation of the BOB ICB would impact this work. It was advised that Neighbourhood Health was fundamental to achieving sustainable services and addressing inequalities. It was part of the NHS 10 Year Plan and so the work would continue.

·           It was advised that after care, discharge and avoiding readmission to hospital were a key part of this. Primary care capacity was essential and modern general practice was therefore a core component to developing neighbourhood health.

·           Carers were highlighted as being more greatly affected, including informal carers such as family members. It was confirmed that the carers voice would be part of this development.

RESOLVED to note the report.

Purpose: To receive the annual report from the Inquest Review Panel.

Jo England (Service Lead – Adult Social Care) presented the Social Care Inquests Annual Report. During the presentation the following points were highlighted:

·       There was a monthly inquest review panel looking at requests for information from the Coroner and at incidents that may or may not go to the Coroner.

·       This was the second annual report following the initial report shared with the Committee in March 2023. Since that report, there had been a levelling off of requests for information from the Coroner. There had been only three requests in the last year.

RESOLVED to note the report.