Urgent and Emergency Care Plan Update – Winter Plan

Report to follow

Contact: Sam Tilley, Director of Urgent & Emergency Care and Emergency Planning, NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin

ICS Update

Report to follow

Contact: Nicola Dymond, Director of Strategy and Integration

Paper for Information - Healthy Lives Update

Report to follow

Shaping Places (Food Insecurity Update)

Contact: Emily Fay, Shaping Places Programme Manager, Shropshire Council

Urgent and Emergency Care Plan update – Winter plan

This item was deferred to the next meeting.

ICS Update

The Board received the report of the ICB Director of Strategy and Integration – copy attached to signed Minutes – which provided an update to the summary of the Integrated Care System (ICS) development programme across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin presented at the last meeting of the Board and gave an update on the establishment of statutory functions of the ICS, specifically the creation of the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and the development of the integration strategy for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.

The Director of Strategy and Integration introduced and expanded on the report and provided more information around where they were with the establishment of the statutory functions within the ICS and particularly that of the ICP.  She drew attention to the diagram on page 3 of the report which set out a breakdown of the key points to know around the ICP.  The ICPs would play a critical role in bringing together health leaders and local authorities to start to think ‘out of the box’ around some of the solutions for Health and Wellbeing whilst addressing any inequalities.  She went on to describe the next steps including development of the Interim Integrated Care Strategy.  She explained that the ICB would have an ongoing role in shaping that interim plan and the longer-term five-year view of what those priorities were and how to take them forward.

It was hoped that the first ICP meeting would be chaired by Telford and Wrekin Council on the 6 October 2022.  The Terms of Reference for both Health and Wellbeing Boards were being considered in shaping the Terms of Reference for the ICP and it was hoped to publish those draft Terms of Reference shortly.  The first meeting of the ICP would be discussed at the next meeting of the HWBB.

The Executive Director of Health, Wellbeing and Public Health reassured the Board that it would have sight of the draft Strategy at its next meeting in November as it would be a priority for the Board.  The Director of Strategy and Integration stressed the importance of not seeing the Strategy as the final point and that it was interim and a blueprint process with many more opportunities between now and March for the partnership to put the meat on the bones of those initial priorities and plans.

RESOLVED: That the Board note:

1)    the detail contained in the report;

2)    the statutory requirements for ICBs and LA’s, as core members of the system
wide ICP, to develop an Integrated Care Strategy;

3)    that this strategy must be informed by the work of the HWBBs and through
engagement with local partners and communities;

4)    the proposed Terms of Reference of the Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin ICP (attached
as an appendix to the report).

Shaping Places

The Board had received a paper, for information, on Shaping Places for Healthier Lives which was a three-year programme funded by the Health Foundation in partnership with the Local Government Association, for which Shropshire was one of five council areas in England to win the funding after a three-stage application process. 

The Executive Director of Health, Wellbeing and Public Health highlighted the two training sessions that had been developed within Shropshire with the voluntary sector, Shropshire Council and all its partners, there was limited capacity and everything people needed to know would be in these sessions which would be recorded.  It was for frontline staff, members and volunteers across the whole system.  She agreed to bring an update on the social taskforce to the next meeting of the Board.

A brief discussion ensued in relation to rural poverty and the recognition by government of rural deprivation.